Frag

Something has always bothered me about The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. And I'm not talking about how nightmare-inducing the under-the-well level in Kakariko Village is.

In the future, a.k.a. seven years after the game begins, you meet an organ grinder who angrily remembers the day a boy in green whipped out an ocarina and played a song that effectively cursed him forever. He plays you the Song of Storms and it goes into your songbook for the rest of the game. He does this despite the fact that your character looks to be about seven years older than the boy was back then, you are wearing the exact same green outfit, and have an ocarina on your person.

Of course, jumping back and forth through time, you can go to the windmill as young Link after learning the song and, as a boy dressed in green, play the Song of Storms for the man.

C°ntinuum players will immediately note the problem here.

You learn the song you play for him in the past because he taught it to you in the future. This means that, at some point, either you had to learn the song independently, or he did. Someone, somewhere, at some point had to write it. We can prove that you learn the song from the organ grinder. This means that either he's lying when he says that he first heard the song in the past when you played it for him as a boy, or there is a temporal paradox in play with no resolution.

I think it's more enjoyable to believe the latter.