I just finished links awakening, so I would recommend you to try it...

 The game is really awesome, the dungeons were difficult at times, but and I was really having this feeling of where do I go? what do I do now? can I put a bomb here? what if I play marin's song here?... That feeling is almost gone with most of the new games... I wish we could interact a little bit more with marin though, I know zelda is the main character, but I would like to see her again. I havent get all the pictures from the mouse, so I am thinking to try beating the game again...

 I loved the game when I played on the GBC, and now I love it a little bit more, good games never feel old.

Master Fire Temple is quite odd. If you do everything you can do in the order that it's presented to you, you can skip a huge tract of the entire Temple. If you all recollect the block you have to drop down from the Fire-maze room down into the room with the Boss Door, when you first arrive in the Fire Maze room, you're completely equipped to drop the block, drop down on top of the block, and go into the boss room, so you can skip both of those upper floors altogether

The only tough thing about that temple in Master Quest is a few very tricky "fire arrow" shots

This happened to me when I played MQ on the 'Cube years ago. Weirded me out a bit, but I wasn't gonna complain. Much.

Water Temple. It is definitely more straightforward than the old Water Temple, and like the Master Fire Temple, you skip a chunk of the temple part of the way through

There was one really aggravating room: the room with the rising and falling hookshot platform with the waterfall on the other side. It was really hard to shoot exactly right, and every miss meant you lost 2 hearts due to doubled damage. I had to retreat out of the dungeon once to claim more (not wanting to waste Milk), and then i ended up getting jumped and killed by Stalfos in the next room with severely reduced hearts

The Bottom of the Well: they really set up an obscure system in there, and now i'm running around all over the Shadow Temple tracking down this one particular key. I'm wondering if it was in an invisible chest down a certain pit, and that should show how desperate i've gotten

No, i did find the right switch, but you still need to make the one shot just right so that you land on the lower target, and then can make the second shot up to the top.

And in the Shadow Temple, i'm stuck at the intersection at the Beamos thats after the first room (the one with the bird). There is a locked door moving forward, and there isn't much of the temple available for me to explore. I have the compass, so i can figure out which chests are available to me, so i may be missing an invisible switch or something (like that near-invisible switch that's key to progressing in the Bottom of the Well :/)

Yeah, the key was in an invisible chest down there at the shortcut. Doubled damage really kicks your ass in a few places in this temple on the master side, but the Compass helped me on some of the tougher keys.

I was so bothered by what Bongo Bongo could do to me with doubled damage that i really focused, and subsequently the fight was easy.

Damn, the kid Spirit Temple is just one bitchy hidden key after another. Start stop start stop

Screw this noise

Edit: ah, i wondered why you could open that door to a place with nothing on the other side. These damn hidden eye targets got me again

Alright, where the fuck is the third key in the Master Quest Gerudo's Training Ground, or am i already screwed from having opened two doors in the right direction?

I got the one in the first room, and in the water room.

Playing Twilight Princess now. Other than the SLOW start (the first 6h), the game is excellent. Especially the dungeons.