Dawg whenever Nachiroux or Eureka told one another that they were so happy they've met one another and when Nachiroux said that she was finally happy with the person she became, I've never cried or clapped harder man, that shit I FUCKING FELT IN MY HEART.

"I've never been very brave. I lived my whole life following other people's orders, blaming them, and hiding behind my lost memories. You taught me that a future exists, one that isn't decided by those sort of things. For the first time, I finally like the person I am."

"My life has been full of mistakes, but thanks to you, Eureka, I feel as though it had meaning."

"The world Nachiroux and I made... I'm so happy I was able to meet you, Nachi. And- Let's go see the flowers when you wake up..."

To hope and pray for the future. A single flower blooms within the pit of despair.

it was quite literally peak like that.

Played it with the Restoration Patch which significantly makes it more like the original, so that's neat

Anyway, both Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask are great games, there are occasional stinkers here and there but aside from those the games are great

If Ocarina of time was about how time eludes us and how fast it passes, Majora's Mask shows us of how much can happen in that time, within the timespan of 3 days.

As you go through the game and proceed to do every side quest, you see how much is going on right before the Carnival of Time, each part of Termina has struggles going on, and with every rewind you get to see every snippet of what goes on in Termina, it makes everything feel so alive and makes you think that Termina is worth saving from Skull Kid,

one of these examples would be in Ikana Canyon when you save a kid's dad with the song of healing, seeing them reunite together after she was scared shitless of what happened to her dad, or when you get to do the Kafei quest line where you get to see Anju and Kafei spend the last hour till their death

There are a bunch more examples like these which make the game really memorable and some of it is optional content and missing it would honestly be a shame.

I really like the stuff in the finale, going inside the Moon and seeing it as a peaceful place where all these kids play, it's probably one of my favorite areas in gaming.

Here again you go through mini dungeons which test what you've learned over the game with the main masks you get, and once you're done with them, you get the Fierce Deity mask which absolutely pulverizes the final boss, and has a really fucking cool design

the final boss is like an incarnation of evil, good guy vs bad guy, like the kid says at the tree right before you go into battle, and it's so cool seeing yourself pulverize this incarnation of evil as a deity himself to restore peace once again

All the stuff after this is really sweet, like Skull Kid asking you to be their friend and seeing the credits roll, and as it shows what Link did for the town

and at the end with Link, Skull Kid, and the giants drawn on a tree stump

great ass game

God, where do I even start or how do I even begin to put my feelings into this game, I've been thinking about it for a few days and I've been going from really good feelings and mixed ones, but my experience was thankfully mostly great and I don't think I regret any second of playing it

If I were to express what genuinely does gripe me… is the story and I wish it didn’t cause I loved what it does on paper but it’s execution just didn’t fit the landing, it's beautifully tragic but also weird in its execution, still miles better than what BOTW had tried

Everything from about Rauru and Sonia, the first king and queen of Hyrule to the new Ganon is awesome (and Mineru is also awesome, like dawg that Spirit Temple and you getting a mech??? THAT’S SHIT AWESOME), and this possibly has one of the coolest premises a Zelda games has ever had, like the opening is so intriguing,

Link and Zelda start exploring the underground of Hyrule Castle and find that there's an arm sealing a who knows how old Ganondorf from way back and then accidentally awakening it, and Link getting his arm damaged and replaced with Rauru’s arm, Zelda goes back in time and, it’s almost the opposite of OoT, where Link goes back and forth in time but, here it’s Zelda and she’s also stuck there BUT it's all so perfectly executed.

Even in the introduction island you witness Rauru’s ghost here and there telling you about the place, but shortly after the introduction island, it’s mostly just a lot of playing the actual game and witnessing how the Upheaval has affected the world, which is awesome, but then you start seeking out the memories and watching all the cutscenes related to what the story pieces together, and it’s almost the same structure as BOTW had? Close to it at the very least if I remember correctly, but this is where my problems starts, anything story related is just insanely short and it feels like there’s not a lot of time given to establishing it all.

It felt like by the time that I had reached the Mastersword and the finale of the game, it felt like I only saw bits and pieces of the story, and it trying to tie it all together nicely, but it all seemingly not managing to stick, and I had played this for about 16 days straight, not actual gametime but I took about 2 weeks or around there to beat it and still am wanting to play more but…

Even with the dungeons, at the end there’s a cutscene explaining their perspective on the imprisoning war, and it’s… about the same each time, it’s really cool the first time and how there’s a article about that this game is about making connections but again, it’s the same each time with the imprisoning war,

While they could’ve given me more cool tidbits about their lives, living in the old Hyrule, Rauru etc, just anything that’ll make it so the player gets more from the world of past Hyrule, or the characters and everything else they had established in the memory cutscenes or JUST ANYTHING, but it doesn’t and that’s what bugs me, but none of the Zelda games were ever like this, their total cutscene runtime reaching maybe 1-3 hours, but it makes sense why they never were as big or as expansive games that reached the height that TOTK does with all of it’s aspects combined, but why does it have to fall short on the one thing that many people do love about these games? I’m just very confused on how I feel about the story structure and it being immensely short by the time I was at the finale, and anything else in the game reaches it’s highs really high, but the story not…

Everything from draconification, Ganondorf and how he came to stealing the secret stone, becoming the demon king, how Rauru underestimated him in that moment of weakness and used it to his advantage, are all so awesome, hell the final fight between Link and Ganondorf here is so fucking cool and awesome, he taunts you the ENTIRE fight and also even has flurry rushes like you do??? IT TRULY FELT LIKE THEY MADE ONE OF THE COOLEST GANON FIGHTS EVER, AND THEN THE FINAL FINAL BOSS IS GANONDORF ALSO TURNING INTO A DRAGON WITH THE LEITMOTIF PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND, AND YOU RIDING ON THE LIGHT DRAGON’S BACK, IT’S SO AWESOME.. but also just felt flat on me despite it all, it felt like the story didn’t have enough time to marinate in my head, and I had no real expectations besides it being better than BOTW but, seemingly them using the same format to hand me these really short cutscenes in the midst of this really huge game felt like nothing ever stuck with me as hard as the beginning and the ending, my journey itself was amazing, but anything I learned from Hyrule’s long gone past just didn’t manage to stick, despite it being so awesome to witness and journey through

All in all, even though my gripes only reach the main story of the game and how it didn’t live up to the impact I would’ve wanted it to give, this is regardless an amazing open world experience, there are not many games out there being able to hand you such a huge beautiful open world meshing 3 landscapes on top and down each other, the depths are eerie, creepy and full of secrets from the past, and them using ideas that they couldn’t fully execute in Skyward Sword here are also awesome, in my lifetime I’d never have expected a Zelda game where I’d be skydiving or flying in some jet in made towards a mini dungeon that looks like a cube, just one of the many examples I can give, but that’s also what’s so great about this series’ evolution, it’s puzzles and the ideas they’ve had, them having no restrictions and limitations created something truly amazing, but also something that can feel very flawed at times, but those flaws don’t ever hinder the experience itself ever, and always reach for new heights that I’m always excited for in the future of gaming and these games