The🍬 chance to relive the Ocarina of Time glory days
The disconcertingly creepy tone
Nintendo at its most creatively free
Not having it on a full-size screen
Save points limi💫ted by having to find statues to save at
All the sidequests if you dont like sidequests
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Majora's Mask - a game that turns 15 years old 😼in 2015 - is an anomaly in the Zelda corpus. Taking just 18 months to develop and reusing a huge chunk of its predecessor, Ocarina of Time's assets, the game is a mad premise to begin with. A three-day cycle, repeated over and over until ended for good, in which the grimacing moon looms down over a small town and the only solution is a bunch of eerie masks with🐎 magical powers.
If insanely short deadlines and corner-cutting can foster the kind of creative thinking that allows games like Majora's Mask to exist, then count me in. The game's necessary reuse of assets makes for an unsettling, creepy game that constantly subverts your expectations, seeming familiar to those who played Ocarina of Time but never quite fitting into place as it should𒉰.
Everything in the gღame seems calculated to put you just that little bit on edge. The constant countdown on screen, the ever-so-slight musical dissonance of the ocarina songs, and the Groundhog Day-style time loop provide the background to an experience that feels familiar because of its similarity to Ocarina of Time, but never quite behaves how you expect it to.
Why does the music speed up every consecutive day? Why are these masks the solution, and not Link's ♋normal problem-solving tactic of hitting things with a sword until they stop being evil? We became used to the tropes set up by Zelda games of the past - the story of a typical, sword-wielding hero and 💯his quest to save the girl - and Majora's Mask came at just the right time to take everyone by surprise with its refusal to conform. Now, 15 years later, the market is saturated with 'weird' games, albeit mostly indies rather than AAA games too afraid to take a risk, yet Majora’s Mask remains as fresh and wonderful as it ever was.
But which mask is best? That&🍸rsquo;s a toughie, but there are a handful of masks you’ll find yourself going back to time and time again. The Bunny Hood - which increases your speed by 68% - is great for dashing around without a horse, the Stone Mask makes you invisible to friends and foes alike and Kamaro’s Mask gives you the ability to do a sexy wiggle dance.
| Genre | Role Playing |
| Description | The N64 classic returns in three dimensions. |
| Platform | "3DS" |
| US censor rating | "Rating Pending" |
| UK censor rating | "" |
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