10 Video Game Side Quests So Good You Ignored The Story

10. The Lover's Quest - The Legend Of Zelda: Majora's Mask

This one is at the bottom due to the very nature of the story of Majora's Mask tying both the main and side quests together. Because of the time management system, if you want to do side quests, you have to wait until the right time and the right day for them to become available, and well, you gotta pass that time somehow so main quest it is.

But one particular side quest was so engaging, so compelling, and so intimate that you suddenly ceased caring about the giant moon about to crash down on your head until that very quest reminded you of the impending apocalypse. And that's The Lover's Quest.

If you follow a lot of gaming channels on YouTube, then you're probably sick to death of people gushing about it, but the reason for that is because it's the perfect complement to the main story of the game. Other side quests are just fine, some are even great on their own, but the quest to reunite Anju and Kafei, the trials to get Kafei his body back, and of course, the waiting in Anju's room on the final hour of the final day, eyeing the clock tick down and legit thinking that he won't be coming, only for him to barge in to marry his love at the literal last moment, gives this grand adventure a much needed intimate touch.