Nintendo's new Ocarina of Time remake enshrines its place in the gaming canon for generations to come. But despite its stupendous production values, the game left me feeling oddly bereft.
A child dressed in green pulls out a sword from a pedestal, falls asleep and wakes up seven years later in a kingdom that he no longer recognizes. The citadel is in ruins, the dead walk through the market square and the castle belongs to a usurper. Malory would have identified the scene instantly, and Eliot too. No copyist put this story in writing: it arrived in a plastic cartridge that millions of people introduced into a console in November 1…