Miyamoto once mentioned that 7 out of 10 people who bought Ocarina of Time on N64 gave up at the Water Temple and never beat the game. So no you're not alone.
I'd consider Majora's Mask the hardest of the 3D games. It's dungeons aren't harder than Ocarina's, but some of it's bosses are and more importantly it's harder to figure out where to go and what to do next. Which is curious, because the game's more linear that Ocarina was. For the first-timer, it's also pretty difficult to find each mask or collectable and complete every task because some are pretty well hidden or are quite complicated to complete. When I played the game for the first time on N64, I remember being stuck big time. Took me a while to finally understand what I needed to do next. It's a game where you really need to talk to everyone. A lot of NPC's give clues to certain things. The Song of Inverted Time, which a necessity, is expleined by one of the scarecrows in the Trading Post or the Observatory along with the Song of Double Time for example.
While the hardest 3D Zelda game, it still has nothing on a lot of the 2D games, the NES games, especially the second, are terribly difficult (though give an amazing sense of accomplishment finally beating them having only used the tools that would have been available to you in the '80s; your NES, the cartridges and the manuals and the incomplete map that came with Zelda 1) and I'd say the Oracle games, which are pretty hard actually, A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening are also more difficult than Majora's Mask.
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