Current Events > every time I play through Majora's Mask, it amazes me how efficient

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I can be

for instance, on my most recent cycle (Great Bay) I:

• got the Zora Mask
• activated both Owl Statues
• got the Heart Piece from Evans for playing Japas' song
• got the Heart Piece at the bottom of the waterfall
• got the Heart Piece while sneaking into fortress
• got the Hookshot
• got the 4 Zora Eggs from the fortress
• got a photo of a pirate
• got the Seahorse
• got the 3 Pinnacle Rock eggs
• saved the Seahorse, got Heart Piece
• got the Bottle & Heart Piece from the beavers
• bought/drank Chateau Romani
• played the song for Toto/Gorman, got Circus Leader Mask
• got the New Wave Bossa Nova
• got the Heart Piece from the cliff near the fortress
• got the Moon's Tear, Land/Swamp/Mountain deeds
• got the Heart Piece by giving the deed to the scrub in Zora Hall
• got the Heart Piece by giving the deed to the scrub in Ikana Canyon
• got the Heart Piece by feeding the big fish in the seaside lab
• cleared Great Bay Temple
• rehearsed the song with the band
• got the upgrade from the Great Fairy
• used the Don Gero Mask to talk to the 4 frogs
• defeated Snowhead Temple boss (Goht)
• got the Heart Piece from the frog chorus
• got the Heart Piece from the jumping minigame

I played the Song of Time and saved after that, it was about midnight on the 2nd Day (thank you, Inverted Song of Time!)
it's pretty crazy just how much you can do in one cycle if you know what you're doing and when
I did miss getting the Heart Piece in the grotto in Termina Field though, I just didn't feel like going back for it just yet. I got it on the next cycle as I headed for the Oceanside Spider House.

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For a 3 day game, it sure is timeless.

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oh yeah, i also got 2 more Heart Pieces in Snowhead

• the one where you need the Scarecrow Song (I already taught it to him to get the cliff Heart Piece near the fortress)
• the one in the chest under the lake, that requires the Zora Mask and defeating Goht

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Yeah. Some people have the misunderstanding that the 3-day cycle puts a scary time limit in the back of your mind all the time but it isn't really like that at all. Especially with the Inverted Song of Time. You can pretty much do everything there is to do in a section of the world in a cycle and even if for some reason you can't, you naturally get sort of "checkpoints" to continue off of a section's storyline in a new cycle. The 3-day cycle adds a lot, lot more life and content to the game than it takes away.

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