Sarianae
Infinite Dreamer
- Joined
- Nov 21, 2010
- Location
- Storybrooke, Maine
Master Quest messed me up a lot while I was playing it. I believe what I thought most frequently was......
......huh? :blank: HUH? WHAT? WHAAAAAT?
JUST NOW THAT DIDN'T MAKE ANY SE--
--So anyways. ^ That was my face.
My mind reeled in unusual directions....often. In fact, the more I had OoT memorized the more that worked against me. You instinctively pick up the familiarity of the environment, yet simultaneously catch vibes that everything is....amiss. Your intuition wants you to do one thing....yet it is wrong. Everything is wrong. It's.....weird.
One of the biggest screw-overs MQ played on me was in Jabu-Jabu's belly. Everyone already knows about the cows....this isn't even about that though. You will probably laugh at me for this...
This was in one of the chambers below, though I'm not positive I remember which one it was, I do believe it was the one with all the shaboms originally in OoT (where you find the compass): (The lovely image below is accredited to ZD's own awesome OoT walkthrough ^^)
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So....when I stepped into that room in MQ, as you might guess, shaboms were not what greeted me. In fact....nothing greeted me. Well at that point, I already knew something was up.....but I didn't think anything would be literally up. Cue me stepping in, and then I started hearing the noise that I probably dread more than any other noise in Zelda. xD So I snapped to attention and whirled around briskly using Z-targeting to switch in on different perspectives as swiftly as I could since I knew what should have been coming, yet there was NOTHING THERE!!! Yet the noise was GETTING LOUDER and then all of a sudden out of nowhere THERE WAS A LIKE-LIKE RIGHT BEHIND ME! And while I was sitting there freaking out about where it had come from since I KNEW it hadn't been there just a second ago, I killed it off in the jumpy quick way I always kill Like-Likes because they've always creeped me out; when it comes to Like-Likes, I always feel the need to get rid of them as swiftly as I can so I can be done with them. But then I'd hardly killed that one before out of nowhere there were suddenly MORE JUST RANDOMLY APPEARING! Furthermore, I was getting the feeling that they were actually falling out of the ceiling, yet whenever I looked up there was nothing there! What the.....what gives MQ? You want to rain Like-Likes on me? Completely freaked me out, because in the midst of stopping to hit one Like-Like, the entire time the noise of other Like-Likes would be sending my ears shivers of warning in the background, reminding me that there could be another one any second to RANDOMLY SURPRISE ME BY APPEARING RIGHT BEHIND ME, and so I'd kill one and then breathe for hardly half a second before ANOTHER ONE and ANOTHER ONE would come down PRACTICALLY RIGHT ON TOP OF ME. And I do particularly despise being in close range of a Like-Like, especially if it takes me by surprise, or if I'm not ready for it...which would be a good description of that entire room. I...I shake my fist at you MQ....
Though to be fair, I might be remembering the experience slightly differently than how it happened exactly (for example, I don't remember how many Like-Likes there actually were) but this is how I remember it thanks to that particularly pleasant experience the game decided to ingrain my memory with.
And of course, the entire time sitting next to me was my friend, who sat there laughing at my overreactive antics the whole way through. (After I told him I thought Like-Likes looked like expired slimy man-eating cakes with holes in the middle, he told me he'd make me one for my Birthday....I told him I'd put an Elegy of Emptiness statue in his room~ ^^)
After that incident, I completely stopped trusting MQ. I remained suspicious of everything, in every puzzle of every room....
MQ drove me a little nuts in other rooms too. I'm sticking with just this story though~
Anyone else have any "misadventures" they had playing Master Quest that they'd like to share? :wave:
(I declare this the official MQ Misadventures thread -D)
......huh? :blank: HUH? WHAT? WHAAAAAT?
JUST NOW THAT DIDN'T MAKE ANY SE--
--So anyways. ^ That was my face.
My mind reeled in unusual directions....often. In fact, the more I had OoT memorized the more that worked against me. You instinctively pick up the familiarity of the environment, yet simultaneously catch vibes that everything is....amiss. Your intuition wants you to do one thing....yet it is wrong. Everything is wrong. It's.....weird.
One of the biggest screw-overs MQ played on me was in Jabu-Jabu's belly. Everyone already knows about the cows....this isn't even about that though. You will probably laugh at me for this...
This was in one of the chambers below, though I'm not positive I remember which one it was, I do believe it was the one with all the shaboms originally in OoT (where you find the compass): (The lovely image below is accredited to ZD's own awesome OoT walkthrough ^^)
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So....when I stepped into that room in MQ, as you might guess, shaboms were not what greeted me. In fact....nothing greeted me. Well at that point, I already knew something was up.....but I didn't think anything would be literally up. Cue me stepping in, and then I started hearing the noise that I probably dread more than any other noise in Zelda. xD So I snapped to attention and whirled around briskly using Z-targeting to switch in on different perspectives as swiftly as I could since I knew what should have been coming, yet there was NOTHING THERE!!! Yet the noise was GETTING LOUDER and then all of a sudden out of nowhere THERE WAS A LIKE-LIKE RIGHT BEHIND ME! And while I was sitting there freaking out about where it had come from since I KNEW it hadn't been there just a second ago, I killed it off in the jumpy quick way I always kill Like-Likes because they've always creeped me out; when it comes to Like-Likes, I always feel the need to get rid of them as swiftly as I can so I can be done with them. But then I'd hardly killed that one before out of nowhere there were suddenly MORE JUST RANDOMLY APPEARING! Furthermore, I was getting the feeling that they were actually falling out of the ceiling, yet whenever I looked up there was nothing there! What the.....what gives MQ? You want to rain Like-Likes on me? Completely freaked me out, because in the midst of stopping to hit one Like-Like, the entire time the noise of other Like-Likes would be sending my ears shivers of warning in the background, reminding me that there could be another one any second to RANDOMLY SURPRISE ME BY APPEARING RIGHT BEHIND ME, and so I'd kill one and then breathe for hardly half a second before ANOTHER ONE and ANOTHER ONE would come down PRACTICALLY RIGHT ON TOP OF ME. And I do particularly despise being in close range of a Like-Like, especially if it takes me by surprise, or if I'm not ready for it...which would be a good description of that entire room. I...I shake my fist at you MQ....
Though to be fair, I might be remembering the experience slightly differently than how it happened exactly (for example, I don't remember how many Like-Likes there actually were) but this is how I remember it thanks to that particularly pleasant experience the game decided to ingrain my memory with.
And of course, the entire time sitting next to me was my friend, who sat there laughing at my overreactive antics the whole way through. (After I told him I thought Like-Likes looked like expired slimy man-eating cakes with holes in the middle, he told me he'd make me one for my Birthday....I told him I'd put an Elegy of Emptiness statue in his room~ ^^)
After that incident, I completely stopped trusting MQ. I remained suspicious of everything, in every puzzle of every room....
MQ drove me a little nuts in other rooms too. I'm sticking with just this story though~
Anyone else have any "misadventures" they had playing Master Quest that they'd like to share? :wave:
(I declare this the official MQ Misadventures thread -D)
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