The gods say “NO”
When the first Fred Meyers I stopped at and the one I had the clerk call were both sold out of Twilight Princess, GameCube – but the third Fred Meyers in the area had two games in stock – I thought that was the worst of it.
Silly me.
The gods in the Zelda universe must be at war with each other, unable to decide if they want me playing the game or not. Because tonight went something like this:
For probably two hours or so I was being annoying to my mom, trying to get her off of the big screen TV so that I could continue my game on the big screen. Since regular TV programming has been terrible lately, it looked like it was finally my turn. So I power up the console, move my character 5 steps forward, and a set of twilight pillars fall from the sky. Still a bit shaky with the canine control scheme I dispatch the onslaught and decide to save the game (Yes, for whatever reason I really did save my game just 5 minutes after loading it).
Two steps forward and everything goes dark. It’s not like I was sucked into the twilight realm or anything – since I was already there. With the kitten biting me on my leg and my inability to see said leg came the realization that this darkness spread further than just Hyrule.
Great, so much for that idea. The rest of the evening involved finding flashlights, then upgrading to candles. Finally we tried to watch a DVD on a laptop, and when the battery of that system ran out we popped the disk out and put it in another laptop. Ray, I want to see you try this with your VHS collection! Muhahaha.
Anyway, the electricity did come back on before we had to swap in a third laptop to complete the DVD movie*. I did end up getting some time on Twilight Princess, but ultimately not as much as I had hoped.
* My own laptop, the “third” laptop, would not have been very useful since the battery is on its last leg of life (~about 10 minutes of computer time at full charge and max LCD brightness, probably about 15 minutes at a reasonable LCD brightness).