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(originally posted 7/20/23)
so i only did this
because i ordered a JP copy for my collection and decided "fuck it ill
100% it, itll be easy enough". it took me about 3-4 days total
i am simultaneously a fan of OOT and its biggest opp. for many years now ive held the opinion that nearly every 3D zelda game that has come out since OOT has done everything its tried to do either better than or just as well as it. MM and TP especially, with MM having a superior world, cast of characters, dungeon design, and sidequests, and TP doing basically everything OOT set out to do but just better. between the two N64 zeldas, i think MM is the superior one hands down. or a short time i even kinda disliked OOT, but that was just because of how it was constantly being hailed as the greatest game of all time, which i still vehemently disagree with
i am simultaneously a fan of OOT and its biggest opp. for many years now ive held the opinion that nearly every 3D zelda game that has come out since OOT has done everything its tried to do either better than or just as well as it. MM and TP especially, with MM having a superior world, cast of characters, dungeon design, and sidequests, and TP doing basically everything OOT set out to do but just better. between the two N64 zeldas, i think MM is the superior one hands down. or a short time i even kinda disliked OOT, but that was just because of how it was constantly being hailed as the greatest game of all time, which i still vehemently disagree with
OOT doesnt ask much
of you. combat in the game is incredibly easy, especially once you get
the biggorons sword. the dungeons are rather simple (which is why if
anything i prefer MQ to the vanilla experience), the items are very
situational with very obvious applications...
yet, in saying
that...its not like i dislike OOT at all. its a very simple game you can
take at a leisurely pace, and theres a certain level of beauty in how
simple and modest it is. the story it tells
is, on the surface, simple as well, but it has a lot of meaning within
its subtext that i think it definitely deserves credit for if majoras
mask is more overtly dark, oot is dark in subtle ways- with a major
theme of the game being the passage of time and the loss of innocence,
watching as things from your childhood which seemed so bright and happy
change right before your eyes and you realize how dark the world can be.
im absolutely in love
with the throughline of the hero of time’s plot from OOT and MM to TP
as the hero’s shade- this incarnation of link being arguably more tragic
than even BOTW/TOTK link.
if anything, i see it
as comfort food. something you can return to at any time and just play
through comfortably. i have beaten it an absurd amount of times by now. i stopped playing
TOTK for it not because i wasnt enjoying TOTK, but because i knew i
could get through it quickly and easily enough
and yknow what? i
appreciate it. i appreciate the game for what it is. for everything it
tried to do and be, so that later games could pick up the torch and
carry it even further
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