over the last two days i finally got to play a whole Ocarina of Time randomizer multiworld session to completion with some friends and that shit rules. two of us were actually playing and a third was acting as a navigator and keeper of the spoiler log, keeping track of what we'd checked already and giving us hints when we were low on available checks or answering shit like "do i really have to play horse archery again and try for 1500?" so we could keep up the pace. there were some great randomizer moments including:
- my light arrows were in player 2's Kokiri Sword chest so i had them from the very start, before i even had like, deku sticks
- i found both of our Kokiri Swords from two scrub salesmen in the same grotto
- my forest temple key ring was in the chest you can climb up to right outside, as if they'd left their keys under the mat (key ring is a newer setting that lets you add all the keys for a location as a single drop that gives them all at once, i hadn't played with it before and i liked it)
- we were playing with medallions only as the requirement to open the way to Ganon's Castle and the Spiritual Stones aren't required to time travel in randomizer so they could have theoretically been ignored... except player 2's Ruto's Letter was in the Ocarina of Time slot and they needed a medallion from Jabu-Jabu, which meant they had to get all the stones
- in order to beat Jabu-Jabu, player 2 needed the boomerang, which was given by one of my Great Fairies, but my Zelda's Lullaby was in a hammer grotto, and my hammer was in my spirit temple, and my spirit temple keys were in the part of my Goron City maze which needed silver gauntlets to reach, and the amount of work player 2 had to do to get me those was completely absurd. i ended up going most of the game without any strength upgrades until we had to have our navigator nudge us along the path, which understandably took a long time to try and figure out the right subtle hints for
- i kept getting warp songs and player 2 didn't, so i was warping all over the place while they had to hoof it, and they had to finish two temples that i didn't, but because of how entwined the progressions were, they still finished within 10 minutes of me
i always forget how much i love OoTR until i play it again, and then i do a run and immediately want to start another right after lmao


