Well SmokedHostage, you're not alone on this one. I haven't finished the game yet and it was the first one I bought. I don't know why but it was a big mistake to read it last 50 hrs or so. Everytime I think in that I just don't want to play it.
I started it a long time ago, and to be honest, the beginning is somewhat boring, it didn't caught my attention like OoT. Then the second castle I think, where you use the iron boots, I hated it because of the background music.... just awful.
I didn't like Kakariko or the Twilight zone, it has some kind of effect that I guess is to make things look more polished, but I don't like it. Somehow my eyes got tired of that effect.
The good thing is that later the games starts to get more interesting and the story seems to be more mature. I'll continue it later.
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