re: Majora's Mask is the greatest zelda game of all time

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I just don’t see why people think OoT is some holy grail of gaming. It’s an excellent game, but I don’t agree with pedestal it’s put on.

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The first 3D offering in the series. I don't think I'll ever be able to duplicate the feeling I had when I first got to Hyrule Field. Plus the Temple of Time mechanic was pretty mind blowing. Going back and forth between young and older Link to be able to access certain areas, either because you were small enough to or because the entrance was only accessible in the past or future. The game did a lot.

I won't say definitively say it's the best in the series, but it's up there, and was definitely revolutionary for Zelda.

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I just don’t see why people think OoT is some holy grail of gaming. It’s an excellent game, but I don’t agree with pedestal it’s put on.

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A lot of that has to do with the fact that 3D gaming was still relatively new at the time, so when OoT went completely 3D and did it WELL on top of that, the awe that it inspired playing through it for the first time was unreal. It was an experience that really hadn't been available before then. I still vividly remember the first time I stepped out onto Hyrule Field.

Not to mention the music, the storytelling, and the characters were all extremely well done. The controls made sense and felt good. That to me is one of the more impressive feats OoT pulled off considering what little info they had to go off of for games of that type at the time.

That said, BotW was able to replicate that for me. In this day and age that's extremely hard to do. It was able to give me a new experience with Zelda while also providing those "Wow..." moments from the sheer beauty/scope of the game. That's why I give it the nod.