Putting nostalgia in its place

Playing those games again has let me shed the honeymoon phase that I’ve been holding on to for the past 15 years. Perceptions of perfection usually stem from skewed viewpoints. While I once thought of those titles as infallible, now I’m able to accept their faults, making everything they actually do so well shine even brighter. A Link to the Past might have its pitfalls, but leading Blind through an entire dungeon only to have him transform into the boss or pulling the master sword out of the stone for the first time still rank as some of my favorite gaming memories. The first half of Final Fantasy VI is so stuffed with amazing moments that listing them all could half a book.

Does nostalgia ever cloud your present-day judgement? For me it's kind of split: what I remember makes me who I am today--opinions and all, yet those same memories would certainly fare differently had they been created today instead of 10 or 20 years ago.

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