majora's mask is good at exposing people's poor time management skills. anyone who's good at managing time should have zero problems with the game. song of double time gives you plenty of time to do loads of shit. if you're crazy enough to want to do everythingh in 1 cycle and fail, that's your call. OoT's strength is mostly nostalgia. replaying it makes that apparent. i used to say i couldn't pick between OoT and MM but after replaying MM recently twice for 100%, i definitely put it above OoT. everything just feels more "meaty" and alive. i would still have liked 2 more dungeons though...
one area where OoT and mp1 are very comparable is replayability thanks to SBs. in fact, i've replayed OoT a lot because of how fast it can be beaten.
Sometimes people bite off more than they can chew in MM by trying to accomplish too many things in the same 3 day segment. Half the fun of the game is planning out the three days. Some quests mix, some don't.
I agree that MM could have used more dungeons. Four dungeons was too few, the fewest of any Zelda game, I'm sure. Yes, there were mini-dungeons like Ikana Castle and the Pirate's Hideout but those don't really count. Still, for having a few dungeons as it did, I feel like Majora's Mask was more jam-packed full of stuff than Ocarina was. In all, I think i feel that MM was more fun because of the whole restarting thing, even if it often led to frustrations (damn you couple's mask!). However, I think OoT's final boss is one of the most epic in gaming history. I love the whole endgame in OoT.
the music was kick ass. and i think it was a fine fight— what's worse about it compared to other final bosses in the series? you fought three forms and took them all down a different way. pretty fun.
MM's final boss was very different than OoT's, but it was fitting. MM was a very strange and creepy game to me, and I thought the final boss was true to that theme.
I only use the word epic when I feel it actually applies because I too hate how it's thrown around so casually these days. In OoT's case, I feel it definitely applies.
I only use the word epic when I feel it actually applies because I too hate how it's thrown around so casually these days. In OoT's case, I feel it definitely applies.