| artur-fernand said: Here's a more pertinent question: of the people who hail Ocarina, how many have actually played the game in recent times, and NOT back when it came out. Or how many love Ocarina and do not have the game as one of their first 3D games? From my experience, nostalgia and the WOW factor it had in 1998 goes a long way in making Ocarina so popular. To me, it's a decent game, but not "Greatest of All Time" material. |
I've beaten it 8 or so times, the most recent time being when the remake came out, and I still love it. It's not my favourite Zelda, but it's in my top 3. It was one of my first 3D games though, but that doesn't really have an effect on my judgement, especially seeing as how I like newer 3D Zeldas more.
I just resumed my playthrough of Majora's Mask (almost at the Stone Tower temple) and it's cementing it's place as my least favourite 3D Zelda. My main love for the series comes from the dungeons, and MM's are pretty average. I know the Stone Tower Temple is supposed to be pretty inventive, so I'll reserve my judement on that until I play it, but even if I do reall like it, it doesn't make up for the first 3. They're not memorable in the slightest, and they don't really do anything exciting. Great Bay Temple is close, but I am not a fan of controlling Zora Link in the water. It doesn't help that there's only 4 dungeons either. I get that the game has a wonderfully unique environment and it has pretty much the best sidequests in the series, but those are not nearly as important to me as what I'm doing in the main story path. I couldn't care less about the sidequests. Atmosphere has more of an effect though, I'll give it that. I'm also not a fan of having to switch masks. It's always something I don't really like in games, where you have to constantly switch personas for different abilities. Just breaks up the game.
Ocarina of Time, on the other hand, remains one of my favourite games ever, as it has very few of these problems, and has some amazing dungeons. When I can replay a game that many times and not get tired of it, I know the game is something special.
