3D games have a strange relationship with 2D worlds, I think. It’s almost as if these games can remember where they came from. And then there’s the whole business of works of art referencing and creating their own internalised works of art! No wonder that paintings in games are often portals – tricksy surfaces that you can step through.
Anyway! Here are five of our favourites.
I can never remember much about the Forest Temple in Ocarina of time – a mossy wall perhaps? Perhaps spiders? But the boss of the temple is still fresh in my mind. It’s one of the great Zelda bosses, if you ask me, a wonderfully unsettling piece of theatre.
You find yourself in a room – a bit too small for a boss fight surely? And the walls, all covered with copies of the same oil painting, a lonesome road on a dark night, spectral trees and the hint of a castle in the distance.