Thread: Favorite Zelda?
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Posted 2003-12-21, 04:24 AM in reply to Raziel's post "Favorite Zelda?"
I'm playing through Majora's Mask right now, and honestly, I think it's a much better game than OoT. My favorite thing about Wind Waker was that you didn't spend 85% of the game in dungeons like in OoT, and I was so happy to see that Majora's Mask uses that same strategy. You spend hours completing sidequests and interacting with the characters, rather than in OoT where you spent no more than a combined total of 5 hours outside of the dungeons.

Plus, the dungeon designs are worlds better than anything in OoT. Ocarina had some good dungeons, but they were all basically just a series of rooms filled with small puzzles and then a final boss. MM's dungeons are all centrally designed, each with one overall objective or puzzle to complete. Like the Snowhead temple. The whole point of the entire dungeon is to raise the central pillar to the correct height so you can access the boss room. There's a lot of extra stuff you have to do in order to complete that task, but it's all based around that one central objective.

The whole world in MM just feels a lot more natural and real than Hyrule in OoT, the characters have more substance to them and you spend a lot more time doing extra things rather than spending all of your time wandering around in dungeons. I genuinely wish that I'd listened to my friends and played this game when it came out.
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