The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Reviews

A deep, atmospheric, and complex masterpiece in game design full of a perfect balance of side quests and main quests. Combining these quests within a time limit improves with replay value leading to a satisfying sense of accomplishment every time you save with the Song of Time.

This game is very good. Especially considering the relatively small development time (for Nintendo standards). It is a new game; but the reuse of assets, although expected, really makes it less interesting. Also, the timeloop mechanic, although very unique, can be irritating at times (you lose all your accountable items), but it was very well implemented nonetheless. I can't deny the game is a bit on the short side and has almost no story in it (it's all veeery vague). And in this game a lot of what seems to be side-quests are needed to progress. This, and the stray fairy searches in the dungeons, are exploratory designs that are at constant odds with the time limit. But Termina is a much more unique location than Hyrule.

Este no solamente es mi juego de Zelda favorito, sino quizás mi videojuego favorito de toda la vida. Entiendo que a nivel histórico Ocarina of Time haya sido más relevante por salir antes y establecer muchísimas mecánicas que se volverían estándares en la industria y de hecho este mismo juego utiliza, pero no abusa.
Aunque a primera impresión no se note, este juego se alza al 100% por su propio peso; establece su propia estética, sonido, guión y mecánicas jugables de manera única y magistral, no exagero al decir que jamás he vuelto a jugar otro título como este (y vaya que me habría gustado).
PD: si lo vas a probar por primera vez es importante decir que si quieres vivir la experiencia real debes hacer la mayor cantidad de sidequest posibles, ya que es ahí donde se ve más el cariño que le pusieron a este juego. La trama principal está muy bien, pero no es lo mejor que ofrece el título.

El mejor Zelda 3D que Nintendo ha hecho, una gran trama y inclusión de gameplay en esta misma, una mecánica de tiempo bastante buena para poner todo en su lugar, un mundo mu vivo, las mascaras y ítems son necesarias y no se quedan de adorno, etc. El mejor sin duda.

A genius sequel with more sidequests, artistic & bizarre overworld, and game design far surpassing its predecessor.

At 1998, Nintendo released The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo 64. It was an best selling game at the time with 7.6 million being sold with everyone loving it and still to this day been called one of the greatest games of all time. After its release, Nintendo decide to make an sequel that toke two years of production less than the time to make OoT. Originally the sequel was going to be released on the Nintendo64DD but due to bad sales in Japan, it was switch to Nintendo 64. This was finally released in 2000 as The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask.

The plot is that Link leaves Hyrule to look for his friend, While looking around in the forest on his horse. A Skull Kid wearing an odd looking mask with two faries Tatl and Tael appears, steals his ocarina, and his horse. Link chases after him and ends up in a cave where Skull Kid transforms him into a deku. As Skull Kid leaves, Tatl gets separated from him and Tael and she teams up with Link to find them. They end up inside the Clock Tower with a Happy Mask Salesman where they made a deal that if he can get the mask back from Skull Kid, than the Salesman can turn Link back to normal. In the three days, they learn that the moon is going to crash. At midnight of the third day, the team confronts Skull Kid and Tael tells them to find four giants from different locations. Link manages to take the ocarina back and remembers the song of time. He plays it and he is back at the first day. The Mask Salesman turns you back to normal than realize he doesn’t have the mask. The Salesman reveals to Link that Majora’s Mask has an evil power that has potential to destroy everything. Link then have to find whatever the four giants are to stop the moon.

The gameplay remains the same from OoT like you solve puzzles, kill emeries, using the songs to get by, and doing optional side quests with new additions. One is the time limit, you have 3 days that is about 54 minutes to find what you are looking for. If you don’t play the song of time in time, the moon falls and destroys everything. When you play the song, it takes you back to day one while losing items like money, arrows, and bombs. It also saves when you play the song. Another way to save is at owl statues you encounter during the jounary. There is a song that slows the time limit giving you more time to do sidequest or go through the dungeon. The second additions is the masks, they are two different types of masks. One type that you transforms into the mask you put on like you put on a deku mask than you transform into a deku. Each mask you find has different abilibes useful at locations when it’s needed. The other type is the mask you use that has secondary effects that affect certions part of the game but doesn’t transform you, like if you wear an bunny hat than you can move faster.

The things I enjoy are the story. I love how it well thought out it is, the concepts work well and while it’s darker than OoT, it works really well and different from what they usually do. The atmosphere works very well to the dark themes the game has. The gameplay is still good with the controls good, and the time limit system I personally don’t mind seeing as its fits with the story making the experience interesting. The music while takes some songs from OoT is pretty good and it does a great job in capturing the mood and making you feel about the event you watching. While I enjoyed this game a lot, they are some things people might be annoyed with. The time limit may be very annoying to people who prefer to explore with no time limit and people may not like the limits on the save feature.

Overall this game may not be anyone's type of game but I love it for the darker storyline, music, gameplay, and interesting concepts. I recommend trying this one out.

This is my third favorite Legend of Selda game. i liked how you hade to travel through time, it was cool to see link with wings. also, the las boss, along with the skull kid, was awesome! if i could find a replica of the mask, i would totaly wear it to school one day. it did present a challenge, getting all the masks and finding all the places that you could go. but still, the last mask, besides majora's, is my favorite. link got all adult and bad ass on you in a black suit. figgin sweet in my opinion. oh, and i liked that you got to play as a zoro. it was awesome in the battle system in my opinion. i give it 10 stars, and i'm not gonna change it and you can't make me!

I just started playing this game yesterday (when it came out in Europe). After playing for 7 hours, my first impressions are that this game is stressful: you only have 3 "days" (in fact approximately 72 minutes) to run on various errands, solve castle puzzles, etc. If you can't finish in time, you have to start almost all over again... And when I have only 10 real minutes left to find the big key, switch off crystals, jump from various platforms, find the temple boss and kill him, I start playing worse and worse, hehe.

However, the graphics and musics are as beautiful as ever, and it has all the typical Zelda sounds that make Zelda the best games ever! It just made my hair stand on end to see and hear all these things again! I just can't wait to play some more... and try to finally solve my first temple!