/vr/ - Retro Games

-The Spirit and Shadow Temples are based on their original designs all the way through. You can actually see a screenshot of a shadow temple from the released game in an early, EARLY alpha screenshot.

-For some temples that became Frankenstein monster temples, the Ice Temple became the Ice Cavern and the Water Temple room in Ganon's Castle. The Wind Temple (at one point, the Sky Temple) became the Forest room in Ganon's Castle. The parts of Hyrule Castle that didn't make it into the Forest Temple became parts of Ganon's castle.

-Completely cut temples? There was originally going to be a Stalfos mansion based temple located in the Lost Woods that was prominently shown in trailers and screen shots. Two rooms of this temple exist in a Debug Rom for Master Quest. As for the 9th temple, it's just assumed that the Swamp Spider House in Majora's Mask was based off it, since the Oceanside Spider House was based off the Stalfos Mansion.

-The script for the game was re-written three times during development. The first script was a quasi-remake of ALttP, and the second one is very similar to the final script, except there were some huge differences, such as Link being born in the city, having a friend named Aria that looks like Malon guide him around, Ganon being evil from the start, and there never being an Ocarina of Time.

-Beneath the Well in the final game houses some cut rooms of the Shadow Temple, but in the beta, it was originally the way to escape Hyrule Castle, kinda like in ALttP

-Originally, there wasn't going to be an Ocarina of Time in Ocarina of Time. The Ocarina was added in a little over half way through development.

>>1161894
It is my favorite of the 3D games, but I will admit that it's not the best introduction to the Zelda series, in both gameplay and tone. I would certainly point at OoT, WW, or TP before MM.

>>990282
I finished this for the first time about a month ago. It's the hardest Zelda game I've played.(The only ones I haven't played is Zelda II and Skyward Sword.) I think it's worth doing the side quests to get extra stuff. Things like the magic Cape make the game easier later on.