I was ready to make this quest the next quest I'd do a Random Review over since it came up when I randomly picked a Featured Quest. I wanted to ease myself back into doing reviews so that I could tackle some quests I've wanted to review and handle some requests I've had. However, I just couldn't bring myself to play enough of this particular quest to give a super lengthy review that I could say was good enough to be a Random Review. I only beat 2 out of the 18 dungeons in the quest before giving up.

This quest is not as bad as Tropicana (the other tox_von quest in the database as of writing this review), but it sadly shares many of its flaws. The primary flaw is that it's a gigantic exercise in tedium.

• While it doesn't start out with an overworld key hunt like Tropicana, it definitely has one early on.
• The overworld is literally a maze. I'm not talking about an expansive world that kind of feels like a maze. I'm talking cramped pathways everywhere that only have one access method:

Compare this graphic (it's just a picture of a maze found through Google if it doesn't show up) with all the screenshots shown for the quest (keep in mind a lot of paths have turns and forks shown on the same screen).

• There are some puzzles that have ridiculous levels of trial and error like a torch puzzle in dungeon 2 that requires you to enter and exit the room at least 12 times if you are unlucky at guessing.
• Dungeon 2 also has dick moves such as sealing you in with the boss even if you lack the two weapons required to kill it or requiring you to leave the dungeon if you didn't find the bait that's required to find a magic container way on the opposite side of the mazy overworld. I basically gave up after discovering both of those.
• There are only 4 custom MIDIs in the entire quest and they are really generic things like that one Hyrule Castle MIDI everyone used to use. There are a lot of uses of the generic music built into ZC, so I quickly switched to muting ZC's music and streaming online video game music while playing. I personally recommend Rainwave for that type of stuff.

• This is the only "button thumper gameplay" I noticed since most things were just tedious (including enemies like windrobes in dungeon 2):

I'm giving this quest a 2 since I realize I didn't play enough of it to give an entirely fair review, but I still wanted to express how frustrated I was with the tedium prevalent in the quest.

All I can really recommend for fixing that is to open things up a bit more and stop treating the overworld and everything else like it's a literal maze (this was also a big issue with Tropicana). Literal mazes are not fun since it boils down to holding your hand against the wall and walking until you find the next checkpoint you need to reach and don't involve exploration so much as pure luck you'll stumble on something. Overworlds need a balance between openness and not being bland and I think tox_von spent too much time trying to make every screen not bland like it was a screenshot contest entry and not enough time making sure things were open and explorable. I think a good overworld is an overworld where you can reach the same destination from multiple paths that are not extremely cramped. I'm not saying things should be as open as Zelda 1, but I think there needs to at least be an illusion that things are open a bit.

Break down some walls.

i have started it and i have arrived to 5th dungeon,but i haven´t destroyed bosses, only in 2nd dungeon.It is very difficult. In first dungeon i can´t find the big key.Anybody knows where is it?

When the first thing that happens in a quest is bugs and then you get stuck in a completely confusing trial and error labyrinth than sadly i have to say this is not going to be fun. Sadly this description fits on this quest even the screens did not look half bad. 1/5 for looks.

Terrific Quest!
Very hard and very long.

I'm giving this a 5 star rating because it was a very enjoyable quest, and to counter Yoshidude's no star rating. It has some innovative things that I haven't seen in a 193 quest, good dungeon design, just the right amount of challenge, not too hard nor too easy, although I must say the first couple of dungeons were a bit frustrating, but once I got through that, the game progressed at a nice pace . I enjoyed the symmetry of the dungeons, I didn't feel like I was just wandering around looking for keys or hidden passages like I do in some quests. Once you beat the dungeons in the "first" world, you're warped to an entirely different (but kind of the same) overworld with a whole new set of dungeons. It's like two games in one! The music was standard, nothing too special but nothing that make me want to turn the sound off. A very solid and well thought out quest, Tox_von has the potential to be a superb questmaker! Two thumbs up.

Just a comment about the first screenshot: It doesn't look very good on a quest when the first screenshot that comes up (the Zora River one) has a palette error, particularly the big Zora (obviously a CSet 9 issue). I highly suggest you get that fixed.