Mastodawn

#3heart master quest starts now. plan to chronicle milestones here. version is technically GameCube version flipped into an N64 rom. it is not fan-made or anything like that, this is an official Nintendo game. and for someone who's played #OoT many times, MQ is like a mindfuck, like being transported to another world where everything is the same but slightly different in uncanny ways. for example, Deku Tree is full of gohma babies now, and the puzzles are different.

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forrest 1d ago

completed Dodongo's, got the Spiritual Stone, not very difficult so far. two things you quickly realize on a 3heart run, one, you can and should just run away from certain encounters, and two, there's not much to do in #OoT, outside of rushing dungeons, if you're not collecting heart pieces. #zelda

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forrest 18h ago

completed Jabu Jabu's Belly but, due to the precarious placement of the heart container (one step in front of Link after the boss cutscene), i accidentally picked it up and had to reset. it's whatever.

the main difference with Jabu's, besides the puzzles, is that it's like an absurdist's nightmare, cows stuck in all the fleshy stomach walls. i guess we know what the Zora have been feeding him, now. #zelda #oot

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forrest

there's so much going on in this short 10-mins of the game. a lot to unpack, as they say, in terms of "growing up," with Ganondorf as a symbol of man’s (not “boy’s”) greed / lust for power. Link actually pulls his sword on Ganondorf, who's this towering, terrible figure on nightmarish high horse, almost like a specter of adulthood itself. the whole thing feels like a sort of naive, youthful rebellion against growing up, or growing up into THAT. incredible storytelling w/ so little. #zelda #oot