The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask - Real Person Reviews
2Written review: http://hubworldhq.com/2016/03/31/the-legend-of-zelda-majoras-mask/
You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?
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The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask is the second 3D Zelda game to hit the Nintendo 64 just two years after its predecessor, Ocarina of Time. Most of the base gameplay and ideas are fairly recognizable from the previous title, but things get more interesting here. Majora’s Mask starts off with Link traveling through the woods when all of the sudden he is tricked by fairies and a character we’ve come to know as Skull Kid. Skull Kid then proceeds to steal Link’s ocarina, kidnap and get rid of his horse, and transform him into a Deku scrub. This sets up the motivation for the player to want revenge as well as the desire to become human again. One of the fairies that was part of Skull Kid’s schemes is busy pestering you when a door closes behind the escaping pranksters, leaving her stuck behind with you. You two are then reluctantly paired to help one another. The fairy, Tatl, needs you to safely bring her back to Skull Kid, and you need Tatl to direct you to him. You then wander ahead into a strange clock tower. Before leaving, a strange character known as the Happy Mask Salesman appears and asks for your help retrieving a very important mask that he has lost. In return, he agrees to teach you a song to transform you back into your human self. You make the agreement and exit the tower into Clock Town, the main hub world of the game. At this point the guards find you too small and weak to leave the safety of the town, so you are forced to stay within the confines of Clock Town for the time being. You must find a Great Fairy that has been split into many minor fairies. She asks you to find the stray fairy floating around town and bring it back to restore her power. You do so. Then she gives you magic and the ability to shoot bubbles. You then go to where a boy is trying to pop a balloon with a blowgun. Charge up a bubble and pop the balloon. Talk to the impressed child and he will challenge you to a game of hide and seek. Five boys are hiding throughout the town that you must find and catch. After you catch them all they will give you the secret code. You can then go to the boy blocking the alleyway in town and give him the code to pass. Beyond this area is the observatory that has a large telescope on it. You use the telescope and zoom in on the top of the clock tower to see Skull Kid and trigger a small cutscene depicting something falling down from the moon. If you haven’t noticed by now, the moon is a large, ever-present rock the appears to be getting closer and closer to the ground… and also has a terrifying face for whatever reason. You then go outside the observatory and grab the item that fell to the ground which is called a moon’s tear. You take the tear to the center of town near the flower. A business scrub will fly down and sit in it. Offer him the moon’s tear and in exchange he’ll give you the deed to his patch of land. You can then use this flower to shoot yourself up to the ledge of the upper clock tower door. Then, on midnight of the final night, the door will open. Enter the top of the tower to find Skull Kid and the other fairy, Tael, as Skull Kid reveals the he is behind the moon falling. The newfound powers of Skull Kid have driven him to this destructive action. Tael then tells you to bring help from the four corners of the land. Skull Kid makes one final attempt to pull the moon down and destroy everything. Shoot him with a bubble to make him drop the ocarina and grab it to trigger one more cutscene revealing a flashback to when you learned the Song of Time. You play the song and now you can save the game and reset to the first day.
he Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask is designed beautifully. It strays a bit from the typical Zelda formula in some interesting ways. It’s new, it’s challenging, and it’s personal. I highly recommend it to every Zelda fan. Don’t start with it, but definitely do not let this one pass you by. The dense amount of content, the rewarding challenges, the brilliant atmosphere, the wonderful directing… everything about this game is just spectacular. You could even find it on virtual console or 3DS. I’ve not played the remake so I can’t comment on it, but from what I’ve heard and read it sounds like it’s still very much worth it. Please, get Majora’s Mask and do it the justice it deserves. It’s an experience everyone should have at least once in their life. Thank you for reading.