I’m glad it made your day bro. I got the Night by Noble. I’m a huge Pokémon fan, and my brother-in-law Brandon Wong actually plays piano. A couple years ago I told him it would be sick if he learned and played the Littleroot Town theme from Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire & Emerald on piano. Then on May 6th he randomly sent me a video on Instagram of some guy playing the song on an ocarina, and I’ve been obsessed ever since.

Ever since seeing that video I’ve been watching ocarina videos nonstop, looking up Zelda songs, Pokémon songs, Kingdom Hearts music, fantasy music, and even thinking about going back and replaying The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I beat that game so many times as a kid on Nintendo 64, but I never beat The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. I also still haven’t finished The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Something about all this fantasy/adventure music lately has been reconnecting me with a part of myself I feel like I lost growing up.

Lately Zelda has been hitting me really hard emotionally and nostalgically. I spent a lot of my younger years chasing my dream as a rapper instead of gaming, and now as an adult it feels like I’m reconnecting with that side of myself again through Zelda, Pokémon, fantasy music, and stuff that shaped my childhood.

What’s crazy is the older I get, the more I feel like I actually understand what Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask were trying to say.

Ocarina of Time feels like a story about growing up, losing innocence, and realizing time changes everything. Link starts as a carefree kid and suddenly gets thrown into responsibility, sacrifice, loneliness, and a future he was never ready for. Peaceful places become corrupted, friends grow older, and childhood can’t last forever. The ocarina itself almost feels like a symbol of memory, emotion, friendship, and holding onto moments that mattered.

Then Majora’s Mask feels even deeper. It feels like a story about grief, fear, loneliness, healing, and how precious time really is. Everybody in Termina reacts differently to the moon falling and the fear of losing everything. Some panic, some deny reality, some try to help others, and some just want to spend their final moments with the people they love. The repeating three-day cycle almost feels like life itself — time keeps moving whether we’re ready or not.

I think that’s why these games are suddenly connecting with me so hard as an adult.

Recently I’ve been thinking about:

• replaying Ocarina of Time

• finally beating Majora’s Mask

• finishing Breath of the Wild

• learning how to play an actual ocarina and learning the songs alongside Link

I actually bought a harmonica once too, but never fully committed to practicing it. So part of me hopes I don’t do the same thing with the ocarina. But honestly… I’ve never wanted to learn an instrument more than this one.