What is your favorite Zelda game and why is it Majora's Mask?

because it's got a neat set of gimmicks and fun to replay

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>>385175474
majora has the best world, characters and game mechanics but the temples are shit except the jungle one

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Majoras Mask. it's so deep that i'd 404 this thread if I tried to explain it all to you

>>385175760
Do it

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>>385176390

Skull Kid with Majora's Mask would school any other LoZ villain

>>385175615

stone temple was linear but great. water temple dungeon was harder than the one in oot, the first dungeon was mediocre compared to the great nigu tree but still pretty good.

>>385175760
try us, bitch.

>>385175760
no it's just autism stop.

So is Termina confirmed to be some type of parallel universe to Hyrule? it would explain all the same faces appearing in both places.

>>385177901
yes, but skullkid, maskman, and Link travel between them, and have no counterparts

>>385175474
Because Zelda basically doesnt exist and it's all about Link and the adventure / world.

>>385175474

Good taste OP.

Majora's Mask is mine as well. It had a great gimmick, fantastic art direction, an original and enthralling world to explore, and a plethora of side quests to enjoy. IMO the temples were all great but admittedly it could have used maybe one or two more.

Probably Link's Awakening

>>385175760
Hey matpat how you doing? Man tough year for the blue devils huh? It must suck watching UNC win the title again.

Majora's Mask was my favorite up until BotW. Really enjoyed it, but BotW is just so fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h_sSI0nHQc

mood music

>>385179420
heres a real man's music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e056R97svz8

>>385179305
>tfw getting MM in BOTW

Pure fucking greatness

>>385179420
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXtes-dcF5k

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anyone have footage of the portal in the sky above stone temple?

>>385179383
Damn

I wish Nintendo will have the balls to make a new dark zelda game like this

>there will be no MM counterpart to BOTW where you turn into qt botw style zora, rito, goron and gerudo

lynel

>>385179383
>there are actually people who thought of this in a weird sexual way

whats wrong with those people

>>385179383
I don't get it.

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Why doesn't time pass inside the Clock Tower?

>>385180397
she got her sister drunk because the world was literally ending that night and she didn't want her sister to be sober and conscious for it

>>385180383
Welcome to 4chan

>got friend to play MM
>he fucking HATES the start of the game
>fully expect him to drop it
>check back in a week later and he says he's digging it
>he actually digs the start of the game now because it got him familiar with Clock Town and the various NPCs
Man this game is just fantastic but I always worry about the beginning when showing it to new people. If you can just get past it I think you'll love it.

>>385175474
>What is your favorite thing and why is it my favorite thing?

Fuck off.

>>385175474
It's the only one I remember feeling emotions to.
OOT was a consistent stream of "oo that's cool" aside from when you travel through time the first time.
MM was consistently throwing emotions around.
Failing the alien invasion
The first time at the beach
Playing the song for the crying baby
The guy in the closet in the desert place...
Fuck, some really unsettling, depressing, and at times heartwarming shit in that game.

This is why I hate that Nintendo released an official timeline. You always get way more interesting shit by letting players speculate. MM is the perfect example of a game that has a lot of shit to think about. I'm not saying I believe most of the fan theories, but they're fun to read.

Best part of this game was that literal ayyliums where stealing cows from the farm.

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Would you consider Majora's Mask and Link's Awakening avant-garde?

They're both pretty mythologically steeped, but kinda develop their themes and symbols in pretty interesting ways.

I mean they both take place after link has completed a huge journey, and play out almost like psychodramas-- a literal dream in Awakening's case.

>>385181237
I don't understand a word of that gibberish but my instinct is to agree with you.

>>385181237
MM is a really interesting use of Link as the silent protagonist, in that you have SO much dialogue with so many people with you playing various parts. You're essentially lying to people to get them to open up so you can help them with your problems, but you could also view it as the game's themes about friendship being taken to the nth degree - these people think you are their friend, so you can actually do what friends do and help them out. Its basically them putting their trust in you and its up to you if you can live up to that trust by the time limit.

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Playing Twilight Princess and good god this game is ugly as shit and plays horribly. What were Nintendo thinking? Also, who the hell designed these ugly little faggots?

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All other villains are fuck boys compared to Skull Kid

>>385181237
>avant-garde?
No, that would implying the gameplay and assets weren't ripped mostly out of oot. That and the fact they're both so similar in their dreamworld aspects removes any "aversion of status quos" from it.
That and it also implies it's forward-thinking, when we now know that zelda quickly got dumbed down from there.
WW would probably pass as avant-garde, cellshaded bullshit with 99% of the world drowned, nobody expected that.

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>>385181559
Some of the best dungeons in the series, though. Arbiter's Ground and beyond is top tier

>>385181610
Skull Kid was the ultimate fuck boy though. Also he had a beak.

Sorry OP, I don't like shitty Zelda games.

Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask are two takes on the same idea. OoT takes the idea of groundhog day much more seriously and as a result changes in the past effect the future much more heavily. MM is generally thr better game, but there are so many inconsistencies regarding time travel in it that it's often hard to take it seriously.

>>385181796
Just gonna softball it out there like that?

>>385181843
Majora's Mask does everything it can to not be Zelda. Why would it be my favorite Zelda game?

>>385175474
Honestly I couldn't get into MM. Was not a fan of the dungeons, was not a fan of having to refight bosses in order to change the environments to do specific sidequests, was not a fan of having to go back through dungeons to pick up frogs, etc. Just too much tedious shit to deal with. Some nice concepts here and there, good atmosphere to be sure, but the actual act of playing the game was more tedious than enjoyable for me. The 3 day cycle was interesting but led to a lot of downsides, in my opinion. Also the rehashed assets reduced the game's novelty a bit.

Majora's Mask and Link's Awakening are the official /v/ approved Zelda's right? I'm a weakwilled cuck so I can't make up my mind!

>>385181828
You don't time travel, you literally return to the start of a brand new timeline. Every time you "go back" you are abandoning that timeline to certain destruction.

>>385175474
Because it's goddamn magical.

>>385175474

I honestly only liked Majora because of it's free form nature of running around anywhere and seeing people do shit

BOTW took that title since it's entirely built on open world exploration

>>385175474
My favorite Zelda is Twillight Princess though

>>385182025
MM, LA, LttP, LBW, OoT and *maybe* BotW and WW. Also Zelda II

>>385182025
Yes, Majora's Mask is the official /v/ approved Zelda. OOT is Reddit.

>>385181907
It did a lot of different things, I'll agree with you there.

>>385182025
>/v/ approved

stop

>>385181747
Depends on what you want out of Zelda dungeons. I'm a structure guy so they don't do a lot for me.

>>385182293
You're going to have to explain, because structurally areas like the Snowy Mansion and Sky City make me incredibly happy.

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>>385182279
What's wrong bitch boy, can't handle superior taste?

>>385175474
i tried playing older zelda games but i couldn't get over the graphics

>>385181237
>avant-garde
I think that's a fair descriptor for MM but not LA. LA was pretty much a standard Zelda game, but was all just a dream. It had a bunch of one-off references and side characters, but that's not exactly novel. It took place on a single island, but the island aspect doesn't really change anything about how the game works or the story flows. It could just as easily have been a continent with mountains blocking it in like the other games.
Majora's Mask really did something new with the Groundhog Day thing. I still haven't really seen another game do it as well as MM did, with a series of intermingled quest lines and characters. It makes the story and characters of MM feels like a big tangled ball of yarn as opposed to a tapestry. There's the same amount of stuff, maybe even more, in the ball of yarn, but you don't really see much of it without spending a lot of time pulling it apart.

>>385182045
No, actually it's the same timeline, you're only recorrecting it in your own image. If time worked in a way where parallel universes were persistent then the entire concept of needing time travel would be redundant. Why would you need to go back in time if you could just hop to a new one where things are better? This is what I mean when I say MM has so many inconsistencies about time travel.

GOD TIER: Majora, LttP, Link's Awakening

HIGH TIER: Wind Waker, BotW, Link Between Worlds

PRETTY GOOD TIER: Ocarina, TP

MEH TIER: OoA, Minish Cap, Zelda 2

BAD TIER: Zelda 1, OoS, Spirit Tracks

GARBAGE TIER: Skyward Sword, Phantom Hourglass

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>>385180502
just fuck me up

>>385182524
>Why would you need to go back in time if you could just hop to a new one where things are better?
Evil magic from the mask, dude. Every single timeline in Termina is trapped by the mask's magic.

>>385182564
The Oracle's games are at worst PRETTY GOOD

>>385182356
They have very trivially linear layouts where you get to the end of one part of the dungeon and it dumps you back at the hub, where you unlock another part of the dungeon. I don't think they're interesting because they're reduced to clearing room by room without any mechanic binding the entire dungeon together.

Temple of Time has that but it's literally a straight line one way and then back again.

>>385179383
How about the postman hiding? Shit breaks my heart.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r9S2yEiuME

>>385182582
There's a lot of depressing dialogue you can find if you just wander around on the 3rd day. So many people are just resigned to dying.

>>385182564
is link between worlds that good? never played it

also pretty good taste

>>385181559
IIRC the characters were intentionally made ugly to make them seem more realistic. In the end, they just look like ugly cartoon characters.

>>385182781
It's pretty good, but it's really easy. It was the only game I got all the heart pieces in on my first playthrough.

>>385182791
>>385181559
The only character I hated in this game was that dumb kid on the right. Cowardly little shit with bad hair.

>>385182781
Its pretty fun, especially on Hard Mode. Personally I found it one of my favorite Zelda games to do the 3 Heart Run because of the freedom to tackle dungeons in whatever order you want.

>>385182625
Wouldn't that mean the timeline is still fixed?

>>385182757
Which makes it all the more satisfying when you avert the end.

>>385183139
Eventually, maybe? But I doubt it.

>>385183232
After running through the three days so many times, the first time I saw "Dawn of a New Day" felt so fucking rewarding.

>>385176654
what about ganon with majoras mask

>>385179383
What is this implying?

So what are your thoughts about the game representing Link coping with the loss of Navi?

>Clock Town - Denial
>Southern Swamp - Anger
>Northern Mountains - Bargaining
>Eastern Ocean - Depression
>Western Canyon - Acceptance

>>385183265
The time travel in Ocarina of Time is much more static. If you mess up something seven years ago, it has a change in tr future, so the emphasis on "getting it right" is much greater. Whereas with Majora's Mask, the timeline just goes back to square one and nothing you do really matters because the idea is to create a variable that can peacefully exist with the new environment created by Majora.

Ocarina is all about removing thr blemishes altogether while MM is about recorrecting the focus/lens to better accomodate a fullet, better picture.

>>385183641
But you don't "mess anything up" in OoT, there are only a few set events that actually matter into the future.

>>385183592
It doesn't really fit the five stages of grief, but the whole game is about losing stuff and coping with it. The themes in the game are really tightly written, so all of the major questlines all go back to the theme. It's not representing Link coping with the loss of Navi, that's just another way the game is building its theme to the players.

>>385183479
Majora's Mask is basically its own being. Ganon would probably recognize it for what it is and either destroy it or let it serve him. I would find it really bizarre if he tried to wear it.

>>385181523
Yeah that lying aspect is really driven home by the fact that masks are the central motif. Masks hide truth by projecting a different kind of truth.

>>385183489
the moon is crashing and going to kill them both, so shes getting her little sister drunk and asleep so she wont be in pain, and because she will never be old enough to drink it anyway

Quick, what is your favorite MM song, and why is it this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e056R97svz8

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>>385180502
>>385184021
jesus christ

>>385184145
Nah. Oath to Order. I still get chills watching the cutscenes of all the giants stopping the moon.

>>385184272
Best Zelda cutscene of all time, imo. Especially when you factor in how you can call just one, two or three of them to have them try and fail.

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>>385183139
I think the concepts of split timelines and a single one for MM have one key difference. In split timelines, there is a question as to what happens when you "abandon" a timeline. There's evil magic at play, but good magic as well. If the goddess of time can send you to a new timeline, could she also coalesce the different timelines into a single one after you defeat Majora's Mask? If so, then you don't need to worry about having to fix everyone's problems on your final run as long as you've done them all at least once. Surely the goddess of time would take the fruits of your labors into the new timeline (right?). Of course, the alternative to having the timelines coalesce is countless timelines of death for the people you abandoned. Quite morbid, but it could make sense if the goddess of time is, in fact, not a benevolent being. If her interest is merely the preservation of time itself, then perhaps she just used Link as a champion to keep Majora's Mask from destroying everyone and everything. That destruction could've included time itself for all we really know about the extent of the Mask's power.

Then there's the possibility that there is only a single timeline. This makes simple sense, but begs the question of what happens if you don't help everyone on your final run? It seems less likely that the goddess of time could pull your efforts from previous attempts into the final one, seeing how they no longer exist. If the goddess could recreate the outcomes of your efforts herself, why bother using Link as a champion at all? No, she seems limited (perhaps by choice) to manipulating time alone. This means that it's up to Link to decide how things play out when he pulls the trigger on Majora's Mask. Does you defeat all the bosses? Help Kafei and Anju? Play a concert? Buy a deku flower from the business scrub? Use the power of the Fierce Deity mask or go without? The single timeline seems to put a lot more weight on the player's choices.

>>385184329
>Especially when you factor in how you can call just one, two or three of them to have them try and fail.

holy shit, i didn't know you could do that. damn this game is depressing.

>>385183592
That interpretation seems on the right track, but I believe the stages aren't so cut and dry. We never really know Link's true feeling about navi, and all everyone assumes is that he cares about her very much. I'd say that Link is dealing with loss, but more than just Navi. He's also dealing with loss of innocence, loss of purpose, and perhaps a loss of identity. Each game area isn't so much a manifestation of Link's internal struggle, but rather examples that teach him emotional maturity. He solves everyone's problems by acting out the correct way to deal with the issues, and learning from what works, thereby growing as a person.

>>385184630
Oh man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDNfDaR_06M

>>385184523
It's also interesting to note that both games give you the freedom to time travel whenever you want, but only MM treats it like some sort of prison. You're stuck in the cycle until you face the problem head on, but in OoT, you're free to mess around in the present and ignore the future if you want.

>>385184630
IMO it makes the final time where they actually do stop it that much more impactful. When I was younger, I had trouble beating the ocean and canyon dungeons, but I played around in the game all the time. By the time I finally stopped the moon, I had seen those final scenes before destruction countless times and watched Tael get smacked aside every time.

>>385185096
To me I love how it represents the song so beautifully. The giants hear the call and answer, even knowing its probably hopeless they give their all to stop the moon.

>>385184523
Yeah no, you're affirming a negative. You can't suppose there is only one timeline and then argue that "failure is a possibility" because of some arbitration in philosophy.

>>385183763
That's because you aren't really allowed to. You can and do make mistakes in MM which effect events later on. But in OoT there isn't a margin for error because you're trying to get rid of Ganondorf for good, and that means getting rid of him and all the problems he created. Majora's Mask is a quid pro quo, where you "settle" for the lesser evil of subduing Majora at the cost of a timeline being infinitely reconstructs until you do.

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consider this step 2/40 of your redpilling

>>385187403
>"failure is a possibility"
That appears nowhere in the post. What do you think is effectively saying that in it? In both the scenarios, there is a possibility that Link does not save people in the final run. The nature of the difference is whether he is responsible for doing everything that last time to make things all right, or if he can rely on the goddess of time to the split timelines back together and salvage his work across them.

>>385187862
what does this mean, that the moon had a "mask" before it fell?

>>385188063
Yeah but all of that is conjecture on the basis of a homonculus argument. The player's choices aren't Link's and nowhere in your post do you affirm that there is a possibility of choice dependency. You just envisioned a perfect scenario to try and counter my argument without actually acknowledging it.

>>385188230
I never thought of the moon as wearing a mask as much as it actually had a face. I guessed that it could show varying emotions like happiness and sadness, much like our own moon looks different over the course of a month. The people might have made masks to mimic different appearances the moon had taken.

>>385175474
LttP. MM is my least favorite Zelda game that I've played. That said, I haven't played all of them. None of the handheld games except LBW, and not SS.

>>385189324
He didn't do it well

>>385175474
Fedora's Mask autists make me laugh trying to claim that their OoT expansion pack is anything other than mediocre hipster gatbage.

>>385188621
I played Majora's Mask again about a year ago. It did not age well in my opinion. It has a lot of frustrating mechanics or even camera angles in certain parts that you don't really think about when you're a kid.

>>385182405
>no Majora
Ha!

>>385184523
The mechanic of splitting a timeline in Zelda is extremely odd in that it seems to have only happened in one particular instance and never again.

Twilight Princess doesn't split the timeline when you go to the past Temple of Time.
Wind Waker freezing Hyrule Castle in time doesn't do anything to the timeline.
Skyward Sword's entire dungeon of time fuckery doesn't do anything to the timeline.
Skyward Sword's later time portal from Early Era Skyloft Hyrule to Hyrule Year 0 does nothing to the timeline.

So I would imagine that you are simply looping back to that first moment on that same specific timeline, and are probably anchored down by the Traveling Masked Salesman, as he seems to be some sort of strange divine entity unto himself. At least in MM. After all one of the game's themes is that you are stuck in a cycle of depression and sadness and how to break out of that.

>>385184726
I think the appropriate way to analyze each area is with two things in mind:
1. That Skullchild is a foil to Link and his feelings, he had friends who abandoned him and he has eschewed Courage, Wisdom and Power for a self destructive lifestyle.
2. That each proper dungeon area also has one or two characters that highlight the importance of that area. The Monkey being accused by the Deku King for the loss of his daughter seems appropriate to Anger, but do we see an instance of Bargaining in the Norther Mountains? All I seem to recall is a dead Goron warrior who left a parentless child behind. Maybe there's more to it, my memory is a tad shaky.

>>385189581
I didn't care for it at the time. I'm just not a fan of having to restart the cycle once every couple of hours. I got every mask and every item. I just hated the game.

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>tfw do temples a certain way after the first one
>do everything required of that temple up until Day Two
>upgrade sword to Razor Sword
>fight temple's boss on Day 3, as the moon countdown timer activates, changing up the music as you fight

It's the little things I can do with this game that make me appreciate it even more and more

>tfw I pronounced the j in majora with an h sound like it was spanish for almost my whole life

>I'm from northeast usa

My interpretation of Termina is that it is Hyrule's shadow, and that it exists upside down underneath the reality of Hyrule.

You fall down a pit, and then walk down a twisted hallway which changes your perception 180 degrees(I think, maybe 90? Which would make this wrong).

Likewise every area is Hyrule but not, or destroyed in some fashion.
Snow Peak is an inactive Death Mountain that doesn't provide its bounty to the Goron.
The Beach is a flooded desert, the Gerudo are there and the only "follow the path or start over" maze in the game. Which was also only featured in the Gerudo desert in OoT.
Kokiri Forest is now a desert bereft of any life, its almost a marriage of a barren Kakarikko and Kokiri.
The Lake is now a Swamp infested with Deku Scrubs.

Not sure if the implication is that the Goddesses gave Termina all this cool shit and then they were ungrateful fucks who got left behind and then they remade a new world ontop of the old one, or if Termina exists as a negative parallel to Hyrule and those who are depressed or burdened by unshakeable sadness are taken there to grieve

>>385175474
It has the most fleshed out world in a zelda game, a lot of charm, themes based off things irl, and OoT's engine.

>>385188230
Just a subtle reminder that the Mayor is under the crushing pressure of depression and worry.

>>385175474
H-how did you know?

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Well, I love Spirit Tracks, but Majora IS my #1 favorite Zelda title, Wind Waker being second, then Zelda II and then Spirit Tracks, Four Swords Adventures being fifth.

>>385179862
I've played this game dozens of times and never seen that once.
>>385182564
but ghost zelda was cute and the ost was nice

>>385190276
Hyrule Hystoria confirms Termina is a dream world of sorts.
and i fucking hate that

>>385191029
>never seen this once

Supposedly the point of Stone Tower was that they were building a tower to get into Heaven with the Goddesses. Considering that Termina has kind of an inverse Triforce and a bunch of blocks with ugly reptilian dudes tonguing their tri-force shaped anus the Goddesses didn't see this as a good thing and tricked them into flipping the tower upside down- so that they actually entered a hellscape with the Majora Demon

Consider you're warped down into a barren desert with giant demon worm things. Probably not a heavenly paradise of any sort.

>>385191196
Ugh. I've been pretty lamed out by Zelda lore ever since the failure timeline was a thing and Skyward Sword's entire "btw The Time Goddess wanted your dick for a thousand years and every single dungeon ever made is just to test you to make sure you're lean and hard the way she likes".

It makes a vague sense, in that the game is supposed to be an implied journey of Link overcoming loss or whatever. But Geeze.

>>385191196
I'm pretty sure the hystoria confirmed what we already knew in that Termina is an alternate dimension. Not a dream world. You're thinking of that other book that's not actually canon but fan interpretation

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b r e h s

>>385191513
I hope I am, I just heard it from hearsay
>>385191416
So the entirity of Sky Keep was just to make Link attractive? Fuck this game and fuck what the series has turned to since the wii.

>>385191416
The stone tower of Babel is a neat theory.

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I know the adventures of link is shit on for being a bad Zelda game, but how does it fair as a metroidvania?

I'm playing oot on the 3ds and planning to play either adventures of link or a link to the past afterwards, which one should I choose?

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Anyone else intrigued by the Garo? I was always turned off (In a good way) by the atmosphere of Ikana, and hearing Tatl mentioning the thirst for blood around you resonated with me. There's also the Gorman Bros. with the masks as well. Either they didn't know about the Garo or they're related to it somehow.

Either way, that nation they come from was interesting enough. I still use the saying they utter before dying.
>Belief or disbelief rests with you.

>>385192229
Zelda II was never a bad Zelda title, don't listen to those idiots who spewed that. Give it a go, it still holds up as a great title. Hell, I'd take fifty more Zelda II's before another Skyward Sword.

>>385191804
Its some throw-away line you get at the end when you get to confront the awoken Zelda. She basically tells you that all of your trials are pre-destined to make sure you're capable of saving Hyrule.

Essentially this pulls Zelda out as a player in the world who uses her cleverness & ability to try and defeat Ganon, ala a 12 year old rousing a champion and getting him a magic sword, and instead makes her a proxy of Miyamato fellating the player to play the game.

>>385191948
I really like Hylia Dan's theory on the whole thing. I wish there were more interesting and thought out game theories to get into, but they're most occupied by retards.

>>385192351
I'd like to know more about Termina's history, it seems odd that you have the Ikana & Garo and yet no one can tell you if the people of Clock Town are descendants of either. Their war gives no mention of involving the Zora, Goron, Deku or Gerudo.
My guess is that the Ikana were originally a Babylonian Empire of many races, and they all came together to build the Stone Tower in a joined effort to reach Heaven and defy the Goddesses for whatever reason, and then upon finding Majora they mistook the Demon for a Goddess and decided to worship her or beg for wishes.
Then either the Majora Symbol becomes a thing and each race starts filling their respective castles, dungeons, plumbing facilities with Majora Blocks, though it could have happened after the Fierce Deity slayed Majora and made it into a mask people worshiped.
Majora probably then led to the separation of all the races through war and segregated them.

I haven't played Majora's Mask yet.
Should I emulate the original or get the 3ds version.
No nostalgia fags allowed. I want an opinion from someone who has played both versions.

>>385194027
I've played both versions but it's been so long since I've played the game that I kind of feel inclined to say play the 3DS version for the QoL improvements (of which I've forgotten what they are).

>>385193846
I'm digging through the wiki and I'm getting the impression that the Garo are probably Termina's version of the Sheikah who are opposed to the Stone Tower.

Garo defends the Light Arrows and disappears in a flash of light, either like the Sheikah using deku nuts to escape or as if he was a good aligned spirit ascending.
He also jumps down from near the portal that Link has to invert in order to get to Twin Mold.

Also in Stone Tower is an evil spirit made of entirely of bats and has a scythe, he's just called Gomess in english, but in the french version he's literally named Death.

So I think the implication is that they built the tower and death lingered there for them.

>>385194027
Haven't played both versions of MM, but I have played both versions of OoT and the 3DS version is almost a straight upgrade in how everything looks and behaves.

its a toss up between this and links awakening for me to be completely honest with you family

>>385195390
My nigger links Wakening is great, about out to ages fuck seasons.

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so which game produces the best porn

>>385195390
Link's Awakening & Link to the Past definitely own my nostalgia blocks

by retrospectively I think Majora's Mask is the most interesting puzzle to decipher in the Zelda series.
While I think Spirit Tracks had the most fun set of characters and is my preferred hand held game

>>385195503
Twilight Princess

>>385195503
Oot has the best Zelda character porn

>>385175474
My favourite is Link's Awakening, but Majora is my second favourite. Few games (of any kind) have worlds as well crafted as those two.

>>385179383
>see you... tomorrow

fuck meng

I never finished MM and I only have the old 3DS (with one joy-stick)
should I emulate it or play it on the 3DS?

>>385182405
coming from someone who loves the fuck out of DCoTE, no, just no

>>385184749
"and so the angry moon"

jesus christ

its the small things that get me with this remake. theres lots of big things that they fucked up, but for some reason the small things are so triggering.

>>385181559
That sucks. I love Twilight Princess even though it does reuse A LOT of stuff from OoT and MM.

I personally enjoyed the design of the game and I loved all the dungeons as well. My favorite was Snowpeak ruins. It's has a such a beautifully eerie yet cozy atmosphere.

>>385175760
Wow EPIC picture, it's not like literally fucking EVERYONE already knows this shit, retard

I remember like 8 years ago reading on theories of mount ikana and was blown away the beta shit was also good. I hate this failed timeline bullshit.

>>385176508
wow really makes you think

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To further support the idea of the Garo as being a benevolent force in the world of Termina:

>"To think I could be defeated... Although my rival, you were spectacular. I shall take my bow by opening my heart and revealing my wisdom" - Garo Master

Pretty benevolent and honorable for a Zelda Character.

He descends down from what is supposed to be the gate to heaven, perhaps the gate becomes a gate to hell when the tower is inverted, and then he challenges you to a fight and uses mostly light themed attacks. Upon defeat he calls you his rival before exploding into a burst of light.

I can only assume that he is a rival in the sense that he is also opposed to Majora and wished to stop the Ikana(basically the Not-Hyrule) from trying to commit a grievous sacrilege.

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Minish Cap is my favorite. OoT is nice too.

>>385194027
I have played both versions and i actually think you should get both if you cant i recommend to emulate it 3ds is too hand holdy if you like hand holding then play the 3ds version and i hope you enjoy your adventure anon

>>385196574
Get a Wii and play it via the nintendo shop. Either that or emulate it

>>385197472
So I think an interesting parallel here is that the not-Sheikah are opposed to the not-Hylia building a Tower into Heaven to defy the Gods, but in OoT The Sheikah build a whole temple directly into Hell and you even cross over a mythic river of the dead to reach the boss.

>>385175474
the masks are cool

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>>385198847
forgot my pic

>>385179383
>see you tomorrow...ok?
>don't tell her everyone's gonna die, link

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whats stronger, majoras mask or the fused shadow

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>>385200276

Majora's Mask is canonically the strongest villain in the series, which in turn makes the Hero of Time the most powerful character.

>>385200276
fused shadow is just majora's mask without the bullshit

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>>385200276
Majora and her Mask are divine level entities created to punish a anti-theocratic society that had spurned the gifts the real and existing gods had given them while the Fused Shadow is the culmination of a thousand year long ancient and arcane arms race for ultimate power.

The Fused Shadow seems to augment things in a wild and wicked way, turning a small plant into a Carnivorous Giant, a hulk stronk Goron into a tall retarded fire monster, and a fish really big. Also when put together it lets Midna do big hair spikes and transform into a thing capable of breaking castle sized magic barriers. Though it seemed to be entirely powerless against Ganon/The Triforce of Power. So the Fused Shadow is incredibly powerful in an overt and direct way, always taking a few seconds of wind up to unleash its full power, but doesn't seem to provide any auxiliary powers over reality other than that by force.

Majora's Mask seems capable of just about any malady and mischief. It initially steals the soul & qualities from one unwilling victim and then inflicts it upon another. It causes the four blights that plague the North, West, South & East, it reverse ages a man into a boy for laughs, and is capable of pulling the entire moon down onto Termina.
Aside from the celestial body pulling I don't think we know whether or not that MM is capable of direct damage on the scale of Fused Shadow, it certainly seems to be more about personal affliction than it does outward power- even if there is a titty demon that lives inside of it shooting sun lasers that will always insta-kill the Deku Link.

>>385200276
Fused Shadow will huff and puff and knock your house down, but Majora's Mask will burn down your entire city, and then cause a radioactive waste spill and an oil spill at the same time, then turn you into a garden plant and tell you good luck.

>>385175474
i remember when this was about to come out /v/ derailed any threads about it calling it shilled

lol fuck this board

>>385176508

Wait,what's this even trying to fucking say?

How is this "Hyrule to termina"?

It's just stating shit that happens in the beginning of the fucking game.

>>385202196
If you had to guess what it means, what would you say?

>>385182405

I agree with most of this list.

But no fucking SONIC ADVENTURE 2:BATTLE?!

Shameful.

>>385202463

I'm guessing this is just some bullshit "ZELDUH SO DEEP" image that yields no meaning or just making up things to tie together.

>>385203143
>Zelduh so deep
>making up things to tie together

Sounds like you're coming in with a complicit bias against some sort of pretentious attitude about the lore.

The image just depicts the journey from Hyrule to Termina to make you wonder about its location, and implies the metaphoric nature of Termina and the entire MM plot/lore.
If its just detailing the passage between games then its not really making things up, and if Link just happens to fall down a great distance and then walk through a hallway which then turns himself upside-down and you walk out into the center of a different world, then maybe there is some sort of implication worth considering.

The interesting part of being a Zelda Lorefag was always finding connections and implications that expanded the history and mystery of Hyrule. Of course its gone to absolute shit since the Wii era of Zelda games and any sort of consistency has vanished- along with any real mystery.

>>385203460
haha yeah whatever fag

>>385205351
Trolling aside, did you want to actually discuss the game in any capacity or were you hoping the backlash would reinvigorate the thread?

So, what's the best way to play this game?

>>385205540
don't. Its shit.

>>385175474
"Deeper" than Ocarina and I'm a contrarian.
Ocarina is my close 2nd.

If you have a hacked 3DS, that's probably the best way for the majority of people; I believe it runs at 30fps IIRC. Otherwise, you could just emulate it with Project64 or Mupen64Plus+Retroarch.

Also, definitely use a controller if you have one, and a way to connect it to your PC. N64 > Gamecube > Everything Else >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Keyboard.