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[neocycle]

Try Darksiders if you like dungeons.

 

[DGrayson]

Did anyone ever play through the Master Quest and is it worth it?

 

[Stafford]

Welcome to the Family!

Glad you enjoyed OoT. I would strongly recommend MM right away. The Time mechanic is very light, especially when you learn to slow it down, so don’t let that be a showstopper.
After that, if you haven’t played it yet, play Twilight Princess.

I really want to, but I don't have a Cube anymore and neither a Wii, plus I really dislike motion controls. A copy for Cube is more than I want to spend on it.

Try Darksiders if you like dungeons.

Played them all, except for the isometric one, love those games.

 

[Danknugz]

i never got stuck just never finished it, need to go back myself too. it's the next chronologically in my zelda backlog. 1998 was a year of great emotional turmoil for me and hearing this game mentioned triggers me.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Did anyone ever play through the Master Quest and is it worth it?

Only as a teen when it came out included with WW.

I remember it's dungeons being more challenging for sure, but since I played it so long ago I can't say if the level design is actually better. Still worth a try for sure, deku tree alone is a good example of how much more challenging it is.

 

[Soodanim]

Did anyone ever play through the Master Quest and is it worth it?

I did. It’s an interesting remix for the dungeons, with some being more challenging than others. I don’t remember all of the dungeons and changes off the top of my head, but you definitely take some different routes and there are things you simply don’t expect to see.

If you have access to it I would say it’s definitely worth experiencing one of the greats in a different way. It’s never going to be considered better than the original, but that’s not what it’s aiming for.

Overall I liked it.

 

[Hookshot]

My vague memory of the master quest is a cow inside Jabu Jabu

 

[Stafford]

Welcome to the Family!

Glad you enjoyed OoT. I would strongly recommend MM right away. The Time mechanic is very light, especially when you learn to slow it down, so don’t let that be a showstopper.
After that, if you haven’t played it yet, play Twilight Princess.

Yeah, it took a short while for me to adjust to stuff here. The first time I got game over and had to do it all over, or so I thought until I realised I only had to find the lost fairy to get the ability to shoot blobs, and yep speaking to the scarecrow to learn how to play a particular song backwards, incredibly cool stuff. It has clicked with me. This time mechanic isn't going to ruin it for me. I'm normal again, I got my weapon and shield and I can go outside now.

I have questions though, lol, but I trust the game will explain all in due time.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Ocarina of Time is the best complete Zelda package. It has the gameplay, the dungeons, the items, the feels, the direction. If the Water Temple was a bit more straightforward and didn’t have that fight with Dark Link, nobody would remember a single bad thing from OoT. I guess the PC recompile with 60fps and free camera fixes the only real couple of technical issues the game had and that make it a bit hard to go back to these days.

Majora’s Mask is a more complex and demanding game, but it rewards handsomely whoever has the patience to learn and understand it.
It is a stunningly mature game disguised as a fairy tale for kids - just like the fairy tales of old. It takes the premise of Groundhog Day and builds a tremendously dark story around it. Solving every NPC storyline in MM is incredibly rewarding and creates a real connection with the game’s world and characters. You really feel like you did some good for these people, even if you’re still to solve the greater threat. MM punches above and beyond most realistic, cinematic games that came after it. But yeah, it’s not easy to get into.

Both games are amazing. OoT is just the most straightforward of the two. It’s a game that really everyone can enjoy, as long as they’re not so jaded that they absolutely need real people and real(istic) environments to enjoy a story.

 

[Kamina]

I really want to, but I don't have a Cube anymore and neither a Wii, plus I really dislike motion controls. A copy for Cube is more than I want to spend on it.

I presume you don’t have a WiiU either then. Well, perhaps Nintendo will release the HD Versions of TP and WW for Switch or Switch 2; there have been rumors for years.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Did anyone ever play through the Master Quest and is it worth it?

I hated it. Most it does is just randomly put the “light four torches to open door” puzzle in places it wasn’t before, to a comical degree. Apart from that, I remember practically nothing of interest in it compared to the original. It’s been a long, long time since I played it, mind. I basically played it once on the GameCube bonus disc and never again.