You only got to the two witches?
That's why you don't like it I guess... The best part of the game starts once you've cleared the first temple in my opinion.
And the recycled stuff is only some character models and a few items, but once you get a little bit farther you realize that the game has more depth in it than OoT. Almost every single person in the game serves a purpose. I was extremely surprised to see that the inn keeper Anju had so much interaction with you. I once tried to see EVERYTHING she did during the three days, and I was so amazed. She would go from one place to another, go to the kitchen, talk with her grandmother and give her dinner, go upstairs to her room, waiting for Kafei to come, talk to the postman... and she would do many other things if you interacted with her. It just gave the game a feeling of intelligence. It REALLY introduced you in Link's role.
Everthing was so alive: the grandma from the bomb shop being robbed, the robber coming and going from his hideout, the mayor's wife (Madam Aroma) talking with different guests every day and going to the milk bar, Mr Ingo annoyed at her...
And there was always that feeling of upcoming darkness. You could feel that the tragedies were getting worse every time, like people dying, a girl lossing her father, EVERYTHING happening in Ikana Canyon was so sad... and of course, the moon falling down. Even the music kept getting darker as the moon was falling!
I just think that this game was so underrated... It was so much better than OoT in many ways, but having only 4 main dungeons made a lot of people give up the game, even though it was as long as OoT.
And the mask system is so much improved from OoT! In OoT certain masks made some enemies just run away or not appear at all (bunny hood in Hyrule Field, Skull Mask for flying Keese...). But in Majora's Mask, you could carry all the masks at once. If you had certain masks, the game went so much easier (the bunny hood had you run a lot faster, which was really good for big jumps, the Stone Mask made the Pirate's Fortress a simple place, and the Garo's Mask had the Re-Deads dance in strange patterns like a russian dance or ballet

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I guess you can already see I'm a big fan of the game, right? Maybe some of you should read the Zelda MM manga translated to English. You can find them
here. They explain the story of Majora's Mask extremely well. Don't forget you have to read them from right to left
