LogFAQs > #939255170

I got up a little early, which should give me enough time to get started on my first game:

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Release Date: October 26, 2000
I will be playing: The Wii Virtual Console version
Previous Experience with Majora's Mask: Played up to the Goron Dungeon
What I expect from Majora's Mask: A fun, artistic Zelda game.

Well, it was in the contest! What a cool touch it was to have the Angry Moon slowly descending on The Witcher III as build-up for the bonus poll. It was just a bit disappointing to see MM get hyped up like that way only to come in and immediately get rolled. I felt kind of bad for voting Breath of the Wild when I saw the percentages.

I think Majora's Mask was the first game I bought because of a GameFAQs contest. As a teen I wasn't very fond of either FFX or Brawl, so I was grateful to MM for wiping the floor with those two. Today I respect FFX as a pioneering game in its genre, but still consider MM a pretty good winner. Shortly after the contest, I bought a $20 Wii Points voucher and downloaded the game, which was my third console Zelda after Twilight Princess and Link to the Past (The Wii, incidentally, was the first console I had at home growing up. I received it as a gift on my thirteenth birthday. Before that, I only had handhelds - which meant that Phantom Hourglass was my first Zelda game.)

I didn't get very far back then. I think that, like a lot of people, I felt a certain stress because of the timer, which became an ever-niggling concern that stopped me from enjoying the game as much as I might have.

But I've always had a high opinion of the game. I appreciate the surprisingly dark tone and the themes that come with it, and it is perhaps the most risk-taking Zelda game before Breath of the Wild. In what will be a recurring theme of these intro write-ups, the fact I haven't finished it says more about my habits and tendency to get distracted than it does about the game. I consider it a failure on my part that I never completed Majora's Mask through that Wii Virtual Console download - so we will begin this project by rectifying that mistake. I look forward to revisiting it.