OH, right. Major'a Mask. That was the one Zelda game growing up I didn't finish. Got through the first two temples and got really bored with it. I hated having to keep re-doing things if I didn't get the sequence right before the end of the third day. It was cute for a while -- the opening of the game was amazing -- but I realized I had better things to do.
I recently played through MM when I got it on virtual console for Wii (for free; it was a club Nintendo promo at one point!!), and I made it all the way through.
It's weird, MM has the best story of all the LoZs but in my opinion was the most frustrating, least fun game to play.
I am all about Skyward Sword. I am a motion control believer. I never had a problem once and I loved that there were fewer enemies and the ones that were there took patience and a deliberate attack to defeat. (I hate hack and slash). In contrast to what someone said earlier, the Cistern was my favorite dungeon -- just WOW. I loved it. It was a shame that the game couldn't have been in HD. It looked dated when it came out. I would totally buy an HD remake of SS if they did something like WW.
But yeah, motion control when done right was amazing. SS, Metroid Prime 3, Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2. How can you go back to just buttons?