Majora's Mask for VC?

[SKTTR]

Majora and Windwaker are the best Zeldas! YOHO!

ok its nice to have the medieval hyrule and all that in zelda 1,2, link to the past, ocarina, twilight princess, blahblah.. but with TP i had definately enough of that! was gettin a lot bored of that one. too much of the same.

Majora's Mask and The Wind Waker are the only true Zelda 2 and 3.
They add to the story, characters and gameplay of the zelda universe a lot.

[Pegasus]

Gimme! I just finished watching Gametrailer's last year's Zelda retrospective series, and, from what they've shown and said about MM, it sounds like a very enticing title to play because of it being so different.

[Radretrogamer]

I never actually played this game, i heard it is different compared to the standard titles. ive even read that it was compared to zelda 2. Can anyone give there review of the game to clear things up for me?

[SKTTR]

Majora's Mask facts

- It's more difficult than any other Zelda, except Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link. It's not THAT hardcore.

- It has more puzzles and secrets than every other Zelda, except The Wind Waker. Wind Waker is arguably on the same level.

- It has the creepiest environments and the moodiest music.

- It's not about Zelda and Ganon (this was cleared up in OoT). It plays right after OoT, in a completely different world and it's got the darkest story. It evolves around the main Hyrule/Ganon story and places Link in a world where a giant overfiend is approaching.

- It has a time system unmatched by any other game to date. You always play the same 3 days, using the ocarina of time to start again at day 1 (because on the third day the world and everything is about to get crushed by a giant falling moon, so you won't that to happen) You can also look in the sky the whole three days and watch the moon slowly coming nearer. An amazing effect. The three days flow in semi-realtime.
(24h ingame = 40 min realtime) x 3 days = 2 hours of ingame realtime.
30 people live in the town and everyone of them has a life. Yes, a simulated life. The postman does his job everyday, the people around the town do their work and much more. You have a book where every quest and their timeline is written down. On the second day it always rains and on the third day people start to run out of town. It's kinda like an Armageddon setting. I love it. And the ocarina has songs where you can speed up the time (a half day) or slow it down so you got 4x more time. So you won't run out of time, when you're, say, in the middle of a dungeon. A little advice: you should always play the 4x time song when youre about to start a dungeon (and of course early in the morning on day 1), because if you don't you might run out of time and have to try it again. That's the one complaint many have. But they didn't play Majora properly, so they would know you always have enough time. In other places, you'll have to wait until something happens (a store opens late in the night, some actions only take place in ceratin places at certain times). Yes, this game lives.
There are parallel time lines as well. It's not to complicated. Sometimes you have to decide what to do and thus you follow a different timeline. And you have to do it all over again to see what happens if you tried semething else.

- The second big feature are the masks. There are 30 different masks to collect, each of them with their own special abilities. Some of them transform you into different beings, while others give you special moves or allow you to make people/animals/monsters react different. There's a mask for dancing, a mask for running, a mask that makes Link sad, a mask where Link can't sleep, etc.

- This is a big and complex game. Not for people that started with Twilight Princess..
It's just overwhelming! This game is outstanding! If one game is remembered for being genius, in a hundrerd years of time, it's Majora's Mask!
And right now I'm beating it 100% for the fifth time.

[Serge.EXE]

Quite honestly, I really enjoyed Majora's Mask. Believe it or not, it was the first Zelda game I really finished. This was because I had not owned OoT before then (I got it later for free) nor had I been that big of a fan of the previous titles. I love them now and curse myself for it, but hey.

It is another odd one of the bunch, not following the "true" Zelda formula, but it is still very much worth a play.

I have the Gamecube Collector's Disc, so I don't need it if it does come out for VC. I'm dong the same with OoT. They play better with the GC controller anyway (I've tried it with the Classic Controller, it stinks), plus it has rumble on the GC.

[The shoemaker]

Never played it, can't wait.

[Shortay]

I'm the same, I only ever played Ocarina of Time in my N64 days, and I'm dying to play this I bought an N64 on ebay lately and I've put off getting any games for it that will come to the VC, unlike Banjo-Kazzoie and Goldeneye of course...

[jesse1596]

Originally Posted by yoshi175

the time ruined majoras mask , it may be one of the best zeldas if it didn't have that, I never make it past dungeon one in time, and I cannot stop in the middle of a dungeon or I get lost

Then your not playing the game properly, if you slow down the flow of time as soon as your start day 1, get some fairies in your bottles and head for a temple right off the battle the temples are very very beatable. You can beat every temple easily in one 3 day cycle.

[link64]

My main problem with Majoras Mask is the Great Bay Temple pepole go on and on about the water temple in OOT but its not half as bad as Great Bay.

[jesse1596]

Bah, great bay temple is not that hard, I can beat that and get all the fairies in about 2 hours tops.

[link64]

Originally Posted by jesse1596

Bah, great bay temple is not that hard, I can beat that and get all the fairies in about 2 hours tops.

2 hours is still quite long even with the fairies which are not hard to get once you know where they are I can do most temples in about 1 hour but that one usally takes at least 2 hours.

[Pocketim]

I have never played this game before but I have seen my friend play it, he didn't do much however, just ran around the place helping people