Re: The Love Thread (Or Just Warms and Fuzzies)
these are all fair points, and i'm not trying to argue with you. I just found that the extra complications all compressed into a much smaller world made the whole place so colourfull; side quests were jammed into everywhere. Then the most horrible complication of the time repetition allowed them to do some incredibly interesting things. If you don't do those side quests you can see the people wandering around town doing those quests themselves. I just love that stuff.
This.
The way people would do the exact same thing every single day, unless you as a time-traveler interfered, which would radically alter the person(s)' behavior, was absolutely fascinating. It also made some nifty thought-provoking statements about the sciences behind time, but that's really beside the point. I loved how everything was linked to the overarching time function, and yet there were really no restrictions on what you could do. Even without the inverse song of time, you had PLENTY of time to do every single thing in the game by themselves, so I didn't feel constricted at all.
Also, the only masks you need to beat the game are the three transformation masks (deku, zora, goron). All the other masks are optional, but if you collect them all, you get the Fierce Deity mask, which basically turns you into super-god link (with the ADULT voice, fuck yeah!) It's so powerful you can only put it on in boss rooms.... well, without exploiting the game, anyway.