What was great about that time period was that we were a gang of kids that played it at the same time and had time to explore it. None of us had english as our first language either so we would only occationally know words in the text and try to guess any meaning from it. It was an awesome mystery solving experience.
Things like the inverted Song of Time is actually masterful game design. You don't need it to complete the game at all, but damn it feels nice to find it. The three godess spells and the ice arrow in ocarina are the same, you don't need them but it feels soo good to find them. That's why I hate the newer Zeldas, they don't do that kind of discovery anymore.
The puzzles though. Those are fucking broken in Majoras Mask. We spent more time trying to get into the final temple than the rest of the game.
I LOVE ICELAND!
