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Edit: Staff contacted me an basically told me that I'd have to bump up my rating for all quests I have ever reviewed by one star. Note that this does not reflect my own opinion on the matter, or the quest, but just that it was something I was made required to do.

sorry moosh.
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Okay, I'll probably not get around to finishing this quest any time soon. I mean, I probably will, I made it to the spoilers: dark world, so I do want to finish this eventually.

But this quest is just crap, that it's rated so highly amazes me. The overworld design has to be some of the worst garbage I have played in a zelda classic quest in recent time. It's basically just a bunch of terrible mazes, but they are also linear and full of garbage mechanics. (The pit one comes to mind as especially awful). And the worst part is that they are so linear, and there are no short-cuts that you just keep having to walk through that tedious crap should you ever need to backtrack. The tile-work in the overworld is generally awful too. The bright pink forest and the blue forest both stand out as being especially terrible in this regard. But it's not as if the dessert or pit maze are that much better.

The dungeons aren't that great either, many features awful mechanics, or weird obtuse ideas on what you need to do to progress. There is also a fair bit of referential humour that even when it wasn't dated, it probably went above most peoples heads, and even so the jokes aren't that good in the first place.

Like, overall, there are a crap ton of bad design choices, but since I know the author has gotten much better since this quest I don't see the point of bringing them all up, it serves to benefit no one. I wouldn't recommend this quest, it's tosh in quest form, but hey, that's just my theory: A QUEST THEORY! #Referential_Humour #DatingYourJokes #It'snotevenfunny