I got the game two days ago. I'm actually a little disappointed. It's my favourite in the series after all.
I thought the change in location for the Bomber kids was cute, but less challenging. I found them way too easily.
Odolwa was completely messed up. His AI forces him just to stand there. Usually, he'd run around, send fire from the heavens alongside those pesky fire-loving butterflies (you see these in the temple, too; they're pretty hurty), create heavy rockfalls, summon random bugs and slash at you with his sword. Now he just stands there. Plus, his sound effects still mimic his old attacks, so it looks and sounds really weird! He doesn't even do that calling-out stance when he summons the fire butterflies.
That, and what is with that eye? The Hell? Could it have been any more obvious that there was a dramatic change from the get-go? You just drop a Deku Nut and hack and slash twice (about ten hits) and he dies. He honestly lets you kill him on purpose. Overall, he came at me with his sword twice (I stood next to him the entire battle, seriously, just to see what the heck was going on there), called down rocks once and summoned bugs once. Everything was so aimless and pointless and dumbed-down. It was awful.
The Goron doesn't require a hold-B to charge the spikes either. It automatically spikes after a certain delay. This can actually be rather annoying. Sometimes I don't want to roll around with spikes and it wastes my magic gauge (I have a double gauge, but still). The final boss in Snowpeak requires you to master the spike ability before you can defeat him. With it having been simplified, I can only imagine that that boss has been dumbed down, too :pink_frown:
Favourite game ever, and it went from a 19.5/20 for me on N64 to a 16/20. Need classic mode or hero mode on 3DS. Seriously. I was so sad about it :pink_no:
Great graphics, though, but doesn't make up for it. Storyline is intact, but God, the difficulty alongside the story was the greatest part of Majora's Mask. It wasn't a pansy game. Now it's way too simplified.
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Also, not a huge deal, but savepoints in the dungeon? Bite me, Nintendo.