Redlambs
Creator of the Caftards comics
MM was a strange one for me, you would do the side quest and help out said villager then play the song of time and its like nothing ever happened, then there are the ones that really catch you in the feels like the Kafei/Anju sidequest, all that hard work and for what? The biggest side quest in a Zelda game to date, that involves every major character in town and the ending just seems hollow somehow.
Always wondered if you could do all the sidequests in one single three day cycle and then go beat the final boss.
Beyond that its a fantastic game, each character you meet has a story and even the dungeons are deeper in meaning than simply go in and collect X item
Probably my second favorite Zelda after Twilight Princess
Well I didn't want to go it to it too much, Earthquake needs to just play it
But yes, the few issues you talk about are what keeps it third behind A link to the past and Ocarina of time for me.