Well, after my long history o failing at TP and giving up for months, and getting ST, thusly regaining the courage to tread onward in TP, you would think it was when I turned on ST for the first time. I don't recall exactly what that felt like, so it may have been then. But I would say that at three(EDIT: Now four) different moments I truly recalled how much I love the Zelda series.
) The first time was when I found ZD. I was stuck, wedged like a piece of spinach in your teeth. So I looked up online walkthroughs like the wimp I was then and found ZD, a whole site dedicated to Zelda love. "Wait... so there are even more?"
I found what I needed and almost left... but first I looked at an intriguing icon and clicked on Video Walkthrough, just to see what it was like. It was astonishing--the mist, the mysterious melodies playing, the image of the boy riding the copper mare throughout the forest... and suddenly, a stranger appeared out of nowhere and the trouble began. I was seriously intrigued, and at one point later one browsed the site and read an article. That was when I fell in love--when I realized how many cared so much for it.
) The next time it happened was when I defeated Malladus. The music, the exciting battle, the cutscenes, everything about it rang perfection in a rather flawed game. And the ending... I chose Engineer, by the way. And it just... I still think about it.
)When I started playing with headphones. PH, ST, TP, OoT, adn SS are all I tried it on, and... wow. Just wow. I cried when I first played with them plugged in, finishing ST for the sixth time, on my 3-Heart run no less. I decided right then to finish TP with them, and for the first time... Midna completely... I count that all as one awakening, because the same emotion was there the whole day.
)When I heard about the tWW U in HD. I looked at the screenshots and started weeping... This is why I love it. Not the remakes, but that long after you finish and love the games to pieces, Nintendo still finds ways of making you cry. This happened just earlier today.
And it will happen again... It will.