May 27, 2023

I had pirated Tears of the Kingdom and was playing it next door to my friend’s room. Our doors and the wall between them were overgrown with glowing tree roots that were responsive to our game progress. I had also grabbed a safe file from my friend that was right before the final fight.

I was on a stormy beach and succeeded in gliding out of bounds on the rocks which led to a boat in a giant cavern underneath. There was a prompt to fight Ganon but I decided to head out of the cave to familiarize myself with the controls first.

I was on the edge of a castle town with an NPC teaching me how to eat food. I got some apples and bombs from the trees. I practiced fusing arrows on the fly in the small field nearby. I tried out throwing, shooting, hopping, and all other combat related controls using a wired GameCube controller. I checked and saw that barely any side quests were completed.

The tree roots between our rooms started glowing into a bright blue - I knew that this meant my friend had reached a cutscene on his game. The Giants from Majora’s Mask were there.