/vr/ - Retro Games

Is it weird that I'm nearly 30 years old and I'm too scared to play Majora's Mask? I've tried a few times but I fidn the game very unnerving. I really want to play it becuase I do like 3D zelda games, but I get so scared I just can't. I even tried playing with the sound off, which is what I had to do for RE4. Is this really strange?

how the fuck are you supposed to figure this shit out without a walkthrough ?

Only for Nintendo.

Did anyone else find this game extremely hard as a kid? I seriously never had any idea what to do in this game as a kid. I would turn the game on, a dog would start attacking me and I didn’t play for months after that because I was so scared. Then when I played later on I never knew how to get outside of clocktown so I would just walk around aimlessly for miles. One day my family friend showed me how to turn into real link to leave town. I never made it past the Deku Palace stuff. But the game was really aesthetic for its time. The scene with skull kid crying with the fairys was really sad. Hard game. Also some green dragons whooped my ass.

I'm really enjoying this game so far, but the dungeons in this game, and all the shit you have to do to get to them, are a complete chore. I get that this game chose to have 4 big dungeons instead of a bunch of smaller ones but to be honest, I think that was the wrong choice.
The dungeons drag on for way too long, and I end up just wanting them to be over while I'm doing them. The dungeons were my favorite part in all the other games, but the ones in this game I've grown to absolutely hate.
Spending 3 hours aimlessly roaming around just to find out how to get to a dungeon, only to then spend 5 hours doing the same thing in the actual dungeon is just draining. And the constant 3-day countdown just makes it worse, even though I actually really like that aspect of the game.

The most aesthetic videogame ever created but the segments between dungeons brings this game down a notch.

Did anyone actually enjoy collecting the Zora eggs or having to explore every little thing to unlock the dungeon?

Oh you want to go to the first dungeon of the game? You better figure out how restore a fairy back to its full form, infiltrate a childrens gang, go through some secret entrance in the back of town to collect an item for the ownership of a plot of flower so you can fly up to the tower and learn to turn time backwards to save the world from imminent destruction. But then you turn time backwards and you have to plant the senzu bean so you can fly over the secret garden entrance then talk to the talking monkey so the secret swamp entrance opens up. Why is this game like this?

I absolutely detested the time mechanic in this game and the whole idea of reliving the same 3 days over and over again. Coming from Ocarina of Time which just laid out a fully fleshed out open world for you to explore at your leisure, then going to MM which felt like a cheap rom hack and being stuck in a much smaller sandbox that never allowed you to take your time and soak anything up was jarring as hell.

Of course a lot of people love this game to death, and having barely played 3 hours of it I do think its possible I jumped ship too early before wrapping my head around its mechanics. Some would say I was filtered, but compared to OoT those mechanics were outright offensive and had no appeal whatsoever if you went into it expecting grimdark OoT.

>>10538382
I remember when I first played this, I had no idea it would become one of my favorite games. The character models are ugly, you run slow as hell, the animations are stiff, and I had no idea how anything worked. Its a miracle that I continued to play after my first experience with it because it had very little going for it.

I'm not gonna go into great detail why I went on to love the game, but I will say in a nutshell it has much of the same appeal as Oblivion and Skyrim, but is much much shittier from a tech and gameplay perspective, but much better in terms of the depth and complexity of character building, skills, magic, etc. And it doesn't hold your hand or convenience you in many ways which makes exploration more fulfilling but also more tedious. I believe enjoying it is a matter of whether or not you can look past how primitive and dated it is to enjoy its depth and its world, much like the first Deus Ex game.

>no Majora’s Mask
Really?

7/10 and that's being generous

>>9157753
This is the worst Zelda game. /thread

Why does everyone love this game? It’s fucking shit. The concept is awful and the difficulty is out of this world

>inb4 you’re bad at the game

I don’t care. I’ve beaten ocarina of time, link to the past, all of the original NES titles, and windwaker multiple times over but I have never beaten this awful game. When I was a kid it pissed me off and as an adult it still does. This is the worst Zelda game to ever release I can’t believe this game is tolerated.

Ocarina was better, this had less dungeons and more bullshit

Obligatory

I’ve had this game since I was a kid but could never beat it, every few years I go back and get a bit further but give up.

Last year I got to the end of the third temple and stopped.

Should I go back and beat it once and for all bros? Will beating it once and for all fix my soul?

The quests in this game are bullshit without a guide. Literally makes no sense. Explain this Zeldafags.

>bitch in the hotel can't find her fiance
>describes the mask he's wearing
>catch him running into some building at the laundromat
>he runs inside and locks the door
>no option to knock it
>when you go back to talk to the lady in the hotel, Link won't tell her that he's spotted him at the laundromat
>when you try to go to the store through the long alleyway (the other entrance?) it doesn't do anything
>look up a guide
>it's some random bullshit on day 3 you have to go to some cave
>even though he was already in clock town on day 1

SHIT GAME

Zoomer here, was this game always known for being the creepy scary "dark atmosphere" entry in the Zelda series, or was this because of by the creepypasta?

Because really it isn't that "dark", there are Mario games which are "darker".

Jesus christ why is everything so zoomed in? It feels like I'm playing a romhack at 10x speed. Is the Wii VC version different?

>>7797592

How do I force myself to like the sidequests?

Any way to emulate the original versions of OOT and MM with better performance? I'm not a pleb that can play at 20fps.

Imagine if every Zelda game was like this. They tried to bring the dark themes back for Twilight Princess but overdid it and gave us a 2006 emo's wet dream instead.