The anti messiah game. It's hard to tell how much to bizarrely eerie and dark tone was really intended. Going from ocarina of time to this is so jarring. Cartoon characters are screaming about how they don't want to die, nightmarish transformation sequences as you adopt the lives and faces of others who perished. It's so weird. The atmosphere is basically unlike anything I've ever seen.

Not that the game is perfect, far from it. It's easy to get stressed out by the timer, especially while doing dungeons, and the ways to mitigate it are... somewhat cryptic. It can feel unrewarding to do a full plotline, reset, and then see all your work undone. The uh... everything about controlling goron rolling. But man, this game is something else in terms of what it offers. Nothing else like it.