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GVG finds cows doing switch duty in Zelda's Master Quest

Daniel Alba revisits the GameCube dungeon remix in the most-watched of fourteen new uploads.

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Ocarina of Time: Master Quest is the Weirdest Zelda

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1:41Master Quest reached GameCube players as a Wind Waker preorder bonus, following the earlier Ura Zelda project.
4:18The Deku Tree's altered puzzles reuse sliding doors to carry burning Deku Sticks between rooms.
9:25Cows embedded in Jabu-Jabu's walls act as switches when shot.
11:02The Forest Temple adds steps to obtaining keys and repeatedly uses Song of Time blocks.
24:26Alba connects the remix's limitations to its reliance on existing assets and game logic.
25:05He argues that Majora's Mask could benefit more from a Master Quest treatment.

Navi identifies a cow embedded in Jabu-Jabu's biological walls. Daniel Alba has a more practical reading: "Navi, that's not just a cow. That's a switch."

That peculiar puzzle captures GVG's "Ocarina of Time: Master Quest is the Weirdest Zelda", the week's most-watched new upload with roughly 110,000 views. Alba works through the GameCube remix dungeon by dungeon, finding inventive uses for familiar objects alongside hidden keys, repeated enemies and an awful lot of Song of Time blocks. He enjoys discoveries that make old mechanics feel new, but questions changes that mostly add extra steps.

The comments become a collection of dungeon memories. Several viewers discuss why this version's Water Temple can feel less confusing; another remembers needing a trip to the library to look up a Forest Temple guide while visiting their grandmother. Others debate whether the remix's novelty compensates for its uneven puzzles.

Ocarina spread across GVG's fourteen uploads, from "Ocarina of Time Remake is Perfect on Switch 2" to a review asking whether the official playable ocarina is worth getting. The performance roundup widened the conversation to Minecraft, Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Stellar Blade. Meanwhile, "The Great & Terrible Remake" is currently drawing views fastest, with Master Quest and the performance roundup also carrying momentum.

Across the library, GVG added about a million views, more than any of the nearby gaming channels listed alongside it. Daily viewing is close to its usual level, while the subscriber count held steady. ThatGuyGlen and My Life in Gaming are enjoying higher-than-usual daily viewing too. For GVG, the week's distinctive thread is a familiar Hyrule made strange again, right down to the livestock.

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I played master quest one trip to my grandmas house that felt like the middle of nowhere. I was so stuck on the forest temple that my mom had to drive me to a library so I could look up a guide on their computers.
@PajamaPantsClanSee it on YouTube
It’s a very common sentiment that MQ Water Temple is somehow less confusing to navigate.
@CorynSilverSee it on YouTube
I can‘t lie, I kinda love master quest. Maybe the full package is janky, but the novelty of unlocking it after beating OOT3D was very cool to revisit places with new puzzles
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I got so stuck on the fire temple that I actually just assumed you had to do the water temple first. So I did. The fire arrows made it a breeze but I thought that was the solution they intended
@DeadweightLKSSee it on YouTube
I played master quest once when i was younger, i still remember being stuck in the spirit temple, in the room with the giant statue, for the life of me i couldn't figure out the frozen eye above the big door as child Link, took me way too long to get past that.
@WildkipediaSee it on YouTube
I played Master Quest on 3DS years ago, I remembered being really excited to check it out, but then being let down. I kinda wondered if it wasn’t just feeling the experience was kind of uncanny and disliking seeing familiar stuff remixed. Nice to hear someone else say that it had real problems with sometimes being different for different’s sake.
@MJTRadioSee it on YouTube
I remember there was one room in the Water Temple that absolutely blew me away and had me grinning thinking "there's no way you just asked me to do that", but I can't for the life of me remember what it was.
@ch-holtSee it on YouTube