Matt

*Not to be confused with Matthew (green).*

*"Can Matt defeat Igos du Ikana and his henchmen? Can Matt scale Stone Tower? Can Matt defeat Twinmold and get to the Clock Tower before the end of the world? Find out after this short shower break!"*

 —Matt

**Matt** is a member of the ZNG. From February 26–28, 2015, he played *Majora's Mask 3D* for the first time and got 100% in it minus fishing. While logging his so-called gripes about changes from the N64 original on Miiverse, he met Stagger and eventually befriended him over the course of the log. Less than two weeks later, Stagger directed Matt to a post for brainstorming *Xenoblade Chronicles 3D* tips that had been set up by Nintendoer. Meeting the two eventually led to Matt becoming a ZNG member. He is also the one who discovered Nintendoer's plot involving the Croatian National Guard.

He has played his favorite *Zelda* title, *Majora's Mask* on Nintendo 64, all the way through over 20 times. In July 2015, Stagger inspired him to try the three-day challenge, where the objective is to beat the game while playing the Song of Time once learnt as a Deku and never again. After some trouble with getting Epona before 6 PM on the First Day, he ended up achieving his goal and has since completed the challenge many more times.

## Zelda Games Played

**Main Games and Their Remakes:**

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**Non-Canon Games:**

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Matt also owns a European copy of *Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland* on DS. He had logged the game up through finishing the first dungeon here in the Discussions for the Wiki.

He had rented Link's Awakening for Switch from his library and beat it on Hero mode in a weekend. His physical copies of the following are Japanese: GBA *The Legend of Zelda* and *Zelda II*, SNES and GBA *A Link to the Past* (*& Four Swords*), *Link's Awakening* (GB and *DX*), N64 *Ocarina of Time*, *Oracle of Ages* and *Seasons*, GC *The Wind Waker* and *Twilight Princess*, and *Spirit Tracks*.

## Top 5 Zelda Games

1. *Majora's Mask* *Majora's Mask*

2. *Ocarina of Time* *Ocarina of Time*

3. *Twilight Princess* *Twilight Princess*

4. *A Link to the Past*

5. *Skyward Sword*

## First Zelda Game

*The Legend of Zelda:*
*Collector's Edition* (GCN)

## How He Discovered the Zelda Series

Matt's first console, a GameCube, was bundled with the above promotional disc, and he still owns both to this day. It contains the *Zelda* games on the NES and N64, a trailer and a 20 minute demo of *Wind Waker*, and a retrospective video of the ten *Zelda* games that had been released at the time.

His best guess for when he got them is Christmas 2003 (age 6) because Nintendo released the bundle in mid-November that year. He first seriously played one of the games on it, *Majora's Mask*, when he was about 11.

## First Playthrough of the *Collector's Edition*

Matt has vague memories of playing the original *Zelda* and the 20-minute *Wind Waker* demo on it around the time he got it. At the time, he didn't grasp the concept of how the games had puzzles in them. In particular, he doesn't remember finding Level 1 in the original *Zelda* or figuring out to light the torches in the first room of Dragon Roost Cavern.

For his first playthroughs of *Majora's Mask*, *Ocarina of Time* and the original *Zelda*, he used walkthroughs for the whole ride. He now regrets this and wishes he had played them on his own. He has yet to beat *The Adventure of Link* but has a file with the maximum experience levels.

Unfortunately, Matt had accidentally dropped the disc once, which resulted in the Wind Waker demo no longer working. Trying to start it gives a disc read error, but everything else on the disc still works fine.

## Miiverse Zelda Drawings

A crudely drawn parody of the Moon from *Majora's Mask*A tribute to the N64 on its 20th anniversaryA tribute to the GCN on its 15th anniversaryMatt's very first Miiverse drawing parodied the Year of Luigi.
## Favorite Games Outside the Zelda Series

### Series

Matt enjoys *Mario*, *Kirby*, and *Metroid*, among other things. For about four years, he competed on the online leaderboards for *Rayman Legends* on Wii U before retiring from it at 75th place. He owns every *Super Smash Bros.* game but hasn't really enjoyed the series since 2015.

His favorite video game genre is the RPG. His favorites include the *Dragon Quest* series, the *Phantasy Star* series, *Xenoblade Chronicles*, *Chrono Trigger*, the *Mother* trilogy, *Shining in the Darkness*, and the first two *Paper Mario* games.

Matt enjoys the *WarioWare* series. He had downloaded *Touched!* in June 2016 from My Nintendo for free and at first didn't get the appeal for the microgame format. When he later got a GBA SP with *Twisted!* in March 2018, the rapid-fire gameplay hooked him because of his limited time for games in college. His favorite is a tie between *Twisted!* and *Smooth Moves*.

When he was about 20, he got a copy of *Sega Genesis Collection* on PS2 mainly for *Phantasy Star II*, *III*, and *IV*, as well as needing an excuse to use his PS2 more. He gained an appreciation for Sega's gaming history because of it, enough to later make a Steam account for *NiGHTS into Dreams...*, *Jet Set Radio*, and *Shenmue I & II*. He would also get a JP Sega Saturn and a Dreamcast in 2021.

Matt occasionally imports Japanese games, with games for the: NES, SNES, N64, GCN, Wii, GB line, DS, 3DS, Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, and PS1. His main reasons for importing include:

* Save money over North American copies of games. On average, he has spent around $9 shipped per game.
* Get physical copies of games he already owns from remakes/remasters or digital rereleases. For example, he imported a Japanese copy of *Wind Waker* for GameCube because he had it in English on Wii U.
* Get a handful of Japan-only releases, such as *Sakura Wars* and *Rhythm Tengoku*.
* Practice reading some native Japanese text. He started learning to read Japanese around March (kana) and August 2021 (kanji).

He has imported a few Japanese consoles: GameCube, Wii, Saturn, and a PS Vita. The Vita was like a late birthday present for his brother, and it cost under $100 in January 2021.

## Hobbies Outside of Video Games

During high school and college, Matt's main hobby besides gaming was playing music. Marching band in particular was something he always looked forward to during eight years of high school and college, and it was a large part of why he had any friends during those years. At college, he was also a member of a symphony orchestra with a repertoire exclusively of video game music. The group he was in is called the Gamer Symphony Orchestra at the University of Maryland.

When he has the time, he enjoys streaming to Twitch. His username on Twitch and YouTube is ButThouMust. He started around May 2016 and has streamed, among other things:

* his first playthroughs of *Golden Sun: The Lost Age*, *Four Swords Adventures*, *Dark Cloud*, *Shadow of the Colossus*, and *AM2R*
* a handful of *Majora's Mask* challenge runs (three-day; minimalist; randomizer hacks; fan-made "Master Quest" hack)
* the Pre-Hooktail Pit of 100 Trials challenge in *Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door*
* beating the final boss of *Dragon Warrior VII*
* playing *WarioWare: Twisted!* on Game Boy Player by rotating his GameCube
* a challenge run of *Dragon Quest II*, for which he has published a video on his YouTube channel
* online play sessions of *Phantasy Star Online* on GameCube

Around October 2015, Matt bought an N64 controller with a bad analog stick and decided to fix it. Repairing and cleaning game hardware has since become one of his "hobbies." Two of his more involved projects were replacing the laser in his Wii so it could read discs again (June 2016), and replacing the housing on a GBA SP when the plastic on the original housing cracked and broke (April 2018).