LogFAQs > #980086322

Not only is it all about the side quests, it's one of the best side questing experiences in gaming full stop. More so than any other game I've played, MM captures the feeling of "this town and this world existed before me and will exist after me. I'm just dropping in, observing everyone's day-to-day lives and reactions to the events of the game, and helping out with the problems they have as part of those lives." It's such a magnificently organic experience that makes it so easy to care about the people that are being helped out by the side quests and feel that you're making a real difference in the world, which is everything side questing should be.

They aren't all super-important and compelling, and there are certainly a few side quests that are more transparently just "complete this minigame please" (getting the Bunny Hood, for example), but there's some really amazing stuff in there.