The tree is up, the lights are on, the stockings are over the fireplace and everyone’s getting into the eggnog. It’s Christmas and it’s the best time of year.
Nothing beats Christmas; it’s the time for fun and play, for family and friends. It’s the chance to get away from work and reset the batteries. And, of course, it’s the perfect time to knock off some of those games that you just haven’t been able to get around to.
As is tradition for Digitally Downloaded we’re going to count down the 24 games of Christmas – one a day for each day from December 1 through to December 24. The fun, the silly and the crazy, these games have been custom picked by the DDNet editorial team to give you plenty of ideas for stocking fillers, games to play with family and friends on Christmas Eve, or games you should use the extra time over the holiday to get stuck into.
The Zelda theme song should be recognised as an official Christmas carol. No, seriously, think about it; how many children over the course of the last 25 or so years have spied a suspiciously-shaped rectangular box under the Christmas Tree, and torn into the paper to find in their hands the latest chapter in Nintendo’s endless saga?
For me personally it was Zelda: Ocarina of Time. As a Christmas gift it was perfect; I got the game, sat down, and ended up spending three quarters of my Christmas engrossed in a technical and creative marvel of a game.
So if you’ve got little ones, why not give them a similar memory? A Link Between Worlds is the perfect gift for any gamer in the family… of (almost) any age.
