You ever notice how the Curiosity Shop owner is racist towards Gorons and Zoras?

>>1242776 I'm pretty sure it was outright confirmed either in the game guide or through developer commentary, but I don't have a source at hand so I very well might be pulling that out of my ass. >>1254268 Honestly? I might go with the Deku Mask. It's literally the first mask you get but it feels like it opens up so much of the game as a result of that. It's fun spinning around as Deku Link, gliding around with flower propellers, and infiltrating Deku royalty like a sneaky little shrub man. It was also really sad learning the subdued story of the Deku shrub you get it from and the understated loss of the Deku Butler compared to Darmani and Mikau's loved ones. Then again, it could just be my nostalgia speaking since the beginning of Majora's Mask was always my favorite part. Plus Deku Link has a funny set of horns, probably the second best instrument next to Zora Link's guitar.

Haven't played this game in over a decade (not a big fan of the time cycle), but I think it has a really cool story and I occasionally watch people do randomizer runs of it.

Atmosphere is definitely the biggest draw Majora's Mask has as a Zelda game but I think the one thing that really brings me back every couple of years is how creative and unique a lot of its designs feel, especially the enemies. A lot of them are really vivid and striking but only show up a handful of times. Even as a kid it really stuck out to me how the Eyegore only showed up twice in the whole game, making it feel all that more rare and unique. There's actually a dozen or so enemies that only ever show up in Majora's Mask, plus all the other weird NPCs/"races" like the Beaver Bros., Gabora, and the Garo, who Nintendo probably couldn't get away with today. Not to get too off topic but Twilight Princess really felt like a spiritual successor to Majora's Mask in a lot of ways, mostly in terms of style and tone.

I have a friend who based his entire online persona off the happy mask salesman. He would rp as the guy in every single game we played, his entire profile was designed around the guys theme. This has been going on for 15+ years now. Haven't talked in a bit, but I hope he's doing well these days.

>>1269022 I like that the Gorons have two 'counterparts' in the Eeno and Nejiron enemies. Personal headcanon being the Eeno being the undead spirits of Gorons embedded in the snowy ground and the Nejiron developing a mimicry of not only the the Goron themselves, but the relationship the Hyrulean Goron have with bomb flowers, the Nejiron becoming the bombs themselves.

Doesn’t giving Anju’s letter to the toilet hand give you a piece of heart?

>>1283109 IIRC any letter or piece of paper does.

>>1283109 >>1290849 >pics It's painful. We've not really had a kid Link since the Wind Waker/Minnish Cap era. I'm not counting remakes of course. I think Link is way more compelling as a child hero than a teen or young adult.

>>1290934 You might just be a shotacon anon. Kid link is suppose to appeal to kids, and the average age of gamers has increased a lot since the 90s thus why link has been aging.

>>1276210 >>1283109 Are these both by the same artist? They look really nice. >>1290934 >>1291318 I think Kid Link is more compelling as a heroic character since he's both experiencing the hero's journey but also while coming of age and coming to grips with what it means to give up your childhood. Another big part of why people like Kid Link is because of nostalgia, or at least because they were of the same age when playing the games he was in but that's on top of his compelling nature.

>>1291404 >I think Kid Link is more compelling as a heroic character since he's both experiencing the hero's journey but also while coming of age and coming to grips with what it means to give up your childhood. Another big part of why people like Kid Link is because of nostalgia, or at least because they were of the same age when playing the games he was in but that's on top of his compelling nature. Yeah I think you've pretty much hit it right on the head. One of my first Zelda-like (sort of) games did the kid hero thing and the story just wouldn't have been the same as an older teen or an adult. I also liked the kid section of DQV more than the rest of the game too.

>>1269022 The enemy designs are great but for me it's that Termina feels like a real place. The worlds in other Zelda games, including OOT, just feel like hubs for a bunch of dungeons and adventure. Majora's Mask actually feels lived in, like you're getting a three day long microcosmic view of a place where people live and work and do things. It makes it easy to care about those people, and saving the world from destruction feels a lot more meaningful as a result. Also there's no Ganon which is a welcome change. >>1181797 Lmao.

>>1294733 >Majora's Mask actually feels lived in, like you're getting a three day long microcosmic view of a place where people live and work and do things. I still haven't played a game that captures the illusion of a living world as well. I think it's the relatively short amount of time that repeats that makes it so compelling to learn the NPC's schedules and alter them. It's scripted like a point-and-click adventure with the added dimension of time. Majora's Mask has hardly even been copied. It's cliche to call it a pinnacle of video game art but it kinda is. >>1235543 here u go

I'm still really miffed we don't have kid link with his transformation masks in smash. >>1294733 I read somewhere (I've searched "Ganon in Majoras Mask and gotten nowhere) that Ganondorf was supposed to be in Termina doing something benign, but was cut for one reason or another. I guess they either wanted to save Ganondorf as a character for other games and didn't want him to be "diminished" by sticking him somewhere random. Maybe it just clashed with what the pirates/Gerudo were up to.

>>1299496 Rapeable

>>1299829 It would have been cool to see Ganondorf as a shopkeeper or vagrant or something like that.

>>1254268 Keaton's just because it looks cool. If the bunny hood weren't so obviously useful I'd be wearing it all over the place. >>1152480 Has to be Tingle. My sister hated him, especially in Wind Waker, not only cause he was annoying but I'd add to it by bombing her with her own money with the Tingle Tuner when she was playing. It's slightly tough cause of the way it works. If you push the bomb button while the tuner icon is attached to link it's a countdown bomb to let him get out of the way, but if your icon is off of him it explodes instantly, so you need to move ahead of link a bit and wait for him to walk to you, then BAM! You can even blast him out of the boat with really good timing, though it's quite difficult there, cause the map's all zoomed out in the Great Sea.

>>1210043 I liked Link and Tatl's dynamic very much and there were plenty of great moments, but way too much was just edgy misery porn for its own sake. It's to the point that the original theme of bringing others happiness gets drowned out.

>>1138086 MM made a huge impression on a huge number of people (including me) with lots of modern developers listing it among their favorite games. (and so would I) I've never replayed it, never played it again since its original release. Suppose one of these days it ought to be something that needs to be done.

>>1301000 (Chkd) I know but it’d be interesting to see him as just a regular NPC. I guess it wouldn’t really make sense but if there was any game to do it in it would have been MM

>>1299496 Should've posted Navi too.

Cycle 1: 1. Get the stray fairy in laundry pool 2. Get the magic meter, pop Jim's bubble 3. Catch the kids, get the secret code (write it down or remember it for later) 4. Go to observatory and get the Moon's Tear 5. Trade Moon's Tear to the Deku scrub near clock tower 6. Fast forward to final day, get ocarina back, revert time 7. Talk to mask salesman, learn Song of Healing, revert back to Hylian Link 8. Grab stray fairy from laundry pool, get Great Fairy's Mask 9. Enter the Bomber's code to skip the mini game and get the notebook 10. Talk to Kafei's mom and get Kafei's Mask 11. Head to swamp, watch the cutscene, hit the owl statue 12. Enter Woods of Mystery, talk to Koume 13. Go to potion shop, talk to Kotake, get red potion and bottle 1 14. Go back to Koume, give her red potion, she's healed, go see her at swamp ride hut 15. Get camera, ride the boat to Deku Palace 16. Enter palace on right, avoid the guards, meet the bean merchant, get bean and water in bottle 17. Plant bean to the east of the palace, ride the platforms to the monkey's prison 18. Talk to monkey, learn song, travel to Woodfall 19. Learn Song of Soaring, hit owl statue at Woodfall 20. Progress in the dungeon until 10pm, soar back to North Clock Town, stop Sakon the thief from stealing bomb bag, get Blast Mask 21. Get the Tamaro's Mask from his lingering spirit atop mushroom in northwest Termina field 22. Go to laundry pool and listen to the music man, get the Bremen Mask 23. Go back to Woodfall, collect all fairies, get the bow, complete dungeon 24. Return fairies, then return Deku princess 25. Get the Mask of Scents from the butler Deku 26. Get the two quiver upgrades 27. Go to mountain village, get Lens of Truth, follow Darmani, get Goron's Mask 28. Talk to baby Goron, go back to Darmani's grave and get hot water 29. Find elder Goron, defrost him, learn half the song 30. Go back to baby Goron, learn the rest of the song 31. Light torches to get the chandelier rotating, break the fixtures until you get the rock sirloin 32. Feed the freezing Goron in mountain village to get Don Gero's mask 33. Head to Snowhead and hit the owl statue 34. Not enough time to complete Snowhead at this point, so go to Romani Ranch 35. Use Bremen Mask to make the chicks turn into adult chickens, get the Bunny Hood Cycle 2: 36. Go to Snowhead, collect all fairies, complete dungeon, get reward 37. Get the powder keg, open way to Goron races 38. Go to Clock Town, get another powder keg, open the way to Romani Ranch 39. Get Epona back, promise to be there at 2am to help with aliens 40. Give your sword to mountain blacksmith 41. Compete in Goron races, get bottle 2 and gold dust 42. Go back to ranch, defeat aliens, get bottle 3 43. Compete against Gorman brothers for the Garo Mask 44. Meet Cremia for a ride into town, fend off Garo mask wearing Gorman bros, get Romani's Mask 45. Go to Great Bay and get the Zora Mask 46. Go to Clock Town, buy a red potion, and go to the entrance to Ikana Canyon, get the Stone Mask

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47. While there, get the Captain's Hat, you can defeat Skull Keeta with Zora Link 48. Go back to mountain village, get the Razor Sword, then immediately give them the gold dust to get the Gilded Sword Cycle 3: 49. Go to Pinnacle Rock, get the 3 Zora eggs there 50. Bring them back to aquarium, head to pirate's fortress 51. Use Stone Mask (or not) to walk right in and get the Hookshot, get three eggs while there 52. Deposit eggs, go back for the last one 53. Learn song, enter and complete temple, collect all fairies, get reward 54. Go to milk bar and get the Circus Leader's Mask by playing music with Toto 55. Go and get bottle 4 from beavers atop the waterfall in Zora Cape 56. Go to Ikana Canyon and learn the Song of Storms, hit the owl statue there 57. Use Stone Mask to sneak past girl, get the Gibdo Mask Cycle 4: 58. Go to Deku Palace and buy 5 beans 59. Go to swamp, use Mask of Scents to get a mushroom, go to potion shop and give it to Kotake 60. Soar to Clock Town and buy a powder keg (and regular bombs if you're out) 61. Soar back to swamp and go to potion shop, get the blue potion (for free this time) 62. Soar to Ikana Canyon and go to the well 63. Give the Gibdos what they want (as long as you have the previously mentioned items, you can get the rest from inside the well itself) 64. Get the Mirror Shield, face Igos du Ikana, get the song 65. Ascend Stone Tower, hit the owl statue at the top 66. Go to swamp and complete the Spider House to get the Mask of Truth 67. If time permits, go back to Stone Tower Temple and complete the first half to get the Light Arrows Cycle 5: 68. Complete the Great Bay Spider House to get the Giant Wallet 69. Progress through Stone Tower Temple until 2pm 70. Soar to clock town, go to Stock Pot Inn, get the room key, promise to meet Anju in the kitchen at 11pm 71. Complete Stone Tower Temple, collect fairies, get reward, get the Giant's Mask 72. Get the letter from Anju, deliver it to a mail slot 73. Meet Kafei the next day, get the pendant and give it to Anju 74. Complete the rest of the quest to get the Keaton Mask, the Postman's Hat, and the Couple's Mask Cycle 6 75. Wait until 10pm in North Clock town so you can thwart Sakon's thievery attempt 76. Collect 500 rupees (300 in East Clock Town, 100 atop the Shooting Gallery roof, 100 in Bomber's hideout; 100 in Stock Pot Inn's Knife Chamber) 77. Collect the All Night's Mask from the Curiosity shop at 10pm 78. Confront Skull Kid atop the Clock Tower 79. Play with the children and give away your masks 80. Get the Fierce Deity's Mask, defeat Majora END.

>>1304141 It'd be funny if the game hyped up a rumor of a "single powerful male among the Gerudo..." just for that Gerudo to turn out to be Beedle who runs a little taveling shop in the middle of nowhere. Alas, he'd make his appearance a few years later.

>>1314613 Not to shit all over you but these games (meaning Zelda games) were definitely made for children in mind. When I was a kid (around 10 years old), the only reason I didn't finish Ocarina of Time after having it for more than 2 years was because I was stuck in Dodongo's Cavern, and it's not because I was stumped by the puzzles but I was genuinely afraid of the Lizafos enemies that you had to fight as mini bosses. Once I got over that, I was able to beat the games no problem. Kids are fucking stupid though so maybe there are kids out there who were unable to figure out where to go and what to do.

Do you guys think Nintendo would ever dare revisiting Termina/Majora's Mask for a sequel, or is it simply too niche and unique to succeed outside of a standalone game beyond references in later installments?

>>1314720 Kids usually asked friends if they got stuck. It's also how rumours like "truck mewtwo" spread around.

>>1314812 Never going to happen. Every game needs to be set in hyrule. Every game needs ganon and zelda and the master sword. They're brand icons.

>>1314992 Huh, come to think of it, Majora's Mask was the last Zelda game not set in Hyrule, wasn't it?

>>1315226 >>1316684 I am forgotten.

>>1316718 And that's not even the last one since Spirit Tracks is set in the same world.

>>1299829 Some fragments of evidence suggest at one point in development Ganondorf and Sheik were going to run the fishing minigames, in the 3ds remake at least https://tcrf.net/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Majora's_Mask_3D#Ganondorf_and_Sheik

>>1316718 Until you posted that I did completely forget this game existed yes. >>1317248 Phantom hourglass at least has the virtue of being an okayish game. My copy of spirit tracks lays forgotten in a bin somewhere, uncompleted, and there it will stay.

>>1339645 You should give it a try. Spirit Tracks is overall better than Phantom Hourglass.