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Nuvendil on 27 January 2017
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Bman54 said:
TheWPCTraveler said:
I hear Ocarina of Time is slow to start, but has a great pay-off.

I don't know about that, because all I've played is the first third...

I've heard a few people say that, and I don't get it. Within the first 10-20 minutes, you're in the first dungeon. How is that slow, especially compared to Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword? Their slow starts is why I keep putting off replaying them.

See I don't think OoT has a slow start.  I think it has a weak start from a writing perspective as there's no world or character building whatsoever (barring the one bit of somewhat interesting exposition about the Triforce) but that's par for the course for OoT :P.  Give me an opening that establishes characters and setting and why I should care over one that leaves the "reason I should care" to my immagination any day. 

But I can also see OoT being viewed as "slow".  Yeah you get to gameplay fast but the game doesn't seem to start to have much gravity to it until a bit further in.