LogFAQs > #932043037

90.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N--8ff2cbmU

2000
N64/3DS

The opening minutes of this game - skull kid laughing at you while you turn into deku link, with really bizarre sound to match the visuals - is legitimately terrifying. But the most terrifying is that this is the followup to Ocarina of Time, the great game brought to us from on high.

Majoras Mask is the strangest rom hack ever. It feels like something that a hacking community came together and made out of the broken remains of a classic, yet its somehow an official thing.

Theres a lot of emotion to take from the desperation that is omnipresent and unfixable in this game. Everyone is always terrified because the moon never stops despite your best efforts. That feeling of inevitability within the game world is a really key moment of what makes this game work.

But more than that, I just love the machinery. The clock ticks, always, and the world runs in slow motion while you zip around it trying to get ahead of the inevitable. That groundhog day feeling and the daily, minutely minutia of the townspeople that you get to explore and know is unique, and it feels weirdly intimate to intrude on lives and change them by knowing what will happen. This game feels like someone made a new game plus mode for Zelda and gave you a ton of variables to play with.

Ultimately, I love how much this weird game trusts the player to explore the world and offers no olive branches to carry you along. Most Zelda games arent like that. There wouldnt really be another one like that until, well, probably Breath of the Wild.

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