9 Video Games You Didn't Realise Stupidly Broke Their Own Rules

2. The Song Of Storms Paradox - The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time

The Rule:

Key to progressing through the game, the Song of Storms is learned from Guru-Guru inside the Kakariko windmill. You learn this as Adult Link, and proceed to use it to trigger a number of events in the game world.

The man teaching you states he actually heard the song "seven years ago", from "that mean kid that messed up the windmill".

Turns out this kid is you, as when you go back in time to your younger self, you have to play the song to the man, to trigger said "messing up" in the first place.

But Wait...

How could Link possibly teach the man the song, when younger Link didn't know it? You had to go to the future to be taught the song by him first, so you'd then have the knowledge to pass it on later.

But "later" is earlier in the timeline.

It doesn't add up.

We can say that time is linear for Link, but how could the man possibly possess knowledge of something he didn't obtain until after you did? How could 'child you' know a song YOU didn't learn until later in your own life?

My aching brain.