Current Events > I love how people read something sinister into Nintendo's innocuous games

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Luigi's Mansion, Pikmin, Pokemon, etc... fans and others make up a ton of theories about dark things for these innocent games, it's really hilarious.
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Some of the ghost Pokmon have some fucked-up background stories.
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To be fair, Pokedex entries do most of the work for creepy Pokemon shit.
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But Majora's Mask really was about Link dying in the opening cut scene with the rest of the game about him traveling through purgatory for absolution or something like that.
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saspa posted...

Luigi's Mansion, Pikmin, Pokemon

I feel like all of these kinda are twisted in one way or the other though
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There are a few for Pokemon, like the one about there being a war before the events of R/B/Y because there are hardly any adults and Lt. Surge talks about being in a war or something. Then of course there's Blue's Raticate.

They're clearly bullshit, but fun to theorize about.

And yeah, Majora's Mask is genuinely pretty dark I think. It's one of the exceptions.

Pikmin and Splatoon take place in a post-apocalypse world where mankind is wiped out.

Pokmon Sun/Moon have the Rotom-dex. Its assumed that the ghost type inside the Pokdex wrote some of the more fucked up entries
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luigi13579 posted...

There are a few for Pokemon, like the one about there being a war before the events of R/B/Y because there are hardly any adults and Lt. Surge talks about being in a war or something. Then of course there's Blue's Raticate.

They're clearly bullshit, but fun to theorize about.

Lt. Surge explicitly states his Raichu saved him in the war

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: RRT made this more interesting as one of the friend zones is the 'abandoned lab,' a clearly human creation that was long since forgotten and is crumbling, despite more or less the world lacking any humans. That let weirder post-apoc stories sprout up.

In Pokemon X/Y, the main story is that 3,000 years ago a war broke out, and the king AZ's Pokemon went to fight, and died. So he built a machine that he used as a weapon to wipe out most of the combatants on either side
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K181 posted...

But Majora's Mask really was about Link dying in the opening cut scene with the rest of the game about him traveling through purgatory for absolution or something like that.

Lol yeah... another good example of people reading way too much into things.
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saspa posted...

K181 posted...

But Majora's Mask really was about Link dying in the opening cut scene with the rest of the game about him traveling through purgatory for absolution or something like that.

Lol yeah... another good example of people reading way too much into things.

While the opening is ambiguous, it really can't be denied that dying is a central theme to the game's story

Link might not have died, but everyone else around him did
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Wind Waker is the story of how Link never returned from heading out to deal with Majora's Mask after Ocarina of Time.
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Bloodychess posted...

saspa posted...

K181 posted...

But Majora's Mask really was about Link dying in the opening cut scene with the rest of the game about him traveling through purgatory for absolution or something like that.

Lol yeah... another good example of people reading way too much into things.

While the opening is ambiguous, it really can't be denied that dying is a central theme to the game's story

Link might not have died, but everyone else around him did

What makes you say that?
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saspa posted...

Bloodychess posted...

saspa posted...

K181 posted...

But Majora's Mask really was about Link dying in the opening cut scene with the rest of the game about him traveling through purgatory for absolution or something like that.

Lol yeah... another good example of people reading way too much into things.

While the opening is ambiguous, it really can't be denied that dying is a central theme to the game's story

Link might not have died, but everyone else around him did

What makes you say that?

If you let the time run out, the moon crashes into the earth, destroying termina
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I mean, that's just your standard game over screen...
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