The pronunciation of Zelda names is always a bit ambiguous, but I'm pretty sure Tael is supposed to be said like "tail" because Tatl + Tael = tattletale
I'm seeing this comment on the wrong video somehow. That, or someone pinned a comment on someone else's video. And people are talking about Majora's Mask on a video of Donkey Kong Country 2 music.
I feel that this is brushed aside a lot but the Hero of Time Link seems to be the most depressing out of all the Links. Despite his heroic actions in Hyrule and Termina, barely anyone took notice which made him a forgotten hero somewhat. And the fact the Hero's Spirit in Twilight Princess laments on not being remembered as a hero truly makes this Link one of the most tragic.
Pretty human flaw too, the greedy history of the land cost him his parents and in return he's forced to fight for it but receives no acknowledgement of it because none of it happened in the end. He takes the role of a healer and guardian in MM but who was there to heal him?
@@dr.metroid6119 yeah like after link saved the world she didn't think to give link a new purpose in life but instead link was in a cycle of depression shown in majora's mask with now with no purpose link thinks its the end of his world hints why that world has 3 days to live.
Love this comment. I’m annoyed beyond belief with people who just repeat the cliches. “Dark”, “creepy”, “depressing “, “it’s the side quests that set this game apart”. And they stop. That’s all they have to offer. Ignorant unintelligent shallow surface gibberish. An insult to the masterpiece.
It’s possibly one of the best Zelda games of all time. Story wise in my opinion the most deep and dark. Nintendo has kinda made a comeback with darker themes with botw and totk
It's a thought-provoking game. Somber all the way through. I've seen some hints of darker, melancholic themes in the recent Zelda games too, specially TOTK, but I wished Nintendo went a step further like what they did with Majora's Mask.
My neighbor is letting me borrow his GameCube after I finish Ocarina so I can play Majoras Mask. I’m starting the Spirit temple. He’s letting me borrow It because myNintendo 64 MM cart broke stopped working
There’s a theory I heard about what happened to Navi. It’s speculated that the fairy passed away, like the fairies who heal you, once its purpose was fulfilled.
@@bangihautz5246Well their purpose is keeping the SkullKid company and since we see him again in Twilight Princess I think its safe to say Tatl and Tael are still alive
The story of the music box house scared me shizless as a kid. And I remember being so, so determined to reunite Anju and Kafei-and getting so messed up in the upside-down dungeon. So many great memories from this game. Including the ghost dancing mask 😆 Excellent video!
It’s art. Sometimes the best art just gets popped out off the top of our minds. That’s because there’s more than just the artists will and desires. There are underlying forces and spirits attached to those ideas. Our ideas are not really only ours. They came from something and someone else. We are just carrying timeless truths.
@@Jdudec367I wouldn't say disliked, but it was definitely considered the black sheep of the franchise for quite a few years. I'm one of the only ones in my family who likes it, purely because my mom and sister, the only ones who would sit down to play it fully, got too stressed after the first few cycles and gave up on it- and they first played it around 2000-2003ish, along with Ocarina of Time
@@sierra121cyan Hm yeah that makes more sense I didn`t mean disliked as a whole. Although lol you are lucky your family actually plays Zelda games too, I have a older brother who also does but that`s about it really.
@@Jdudec367 I wouldn't say lucky, since I'm so autistic at finding everything I can in Botw/Totk, so I'm called on as a walking wikipedia for finding stuff constantly
It’s really hard for me to play ocarina and majora’s mask because I play them on my older brothers Nintendo 64 and every time I login I can see his name file with everything maxed out. He passed away in 2016, I think about him every day. I Think about him the most when I am playing Ocarina and Majora’s Mask on my little CRT tv 📺 lol 😂❤You never fully learn to Appreciate Life until you lose someone you love forever. And that’s a cold hard motherfucking fact of life. Stay High 🌿☮️
Also lost my brother but in 2018 to a motorcycle accident and I know EXACTLY what you mean about certain things being ruined because of associating them with your brother. Take care of yourself.
This game never fails to bring me to tears. Absolutely a beautiful, haunting game. Demi Butler mourning his son at the end really got me. I was crying snot booger type tears.
Majora’s mask being connected to Run Lola Run has fucked my head up more than I’d like to admit. Never made that connection, but it makes perfect sense.
MM was revolutionary in so many ways. I remember I would save Anju and Kafei's quest until my final run before the end so they would be able to get married
I would always go kill each of the bosses as partly a 'boss rush' but also then the regions would be purged of the blights before I take on the true villain.
I’m playing MM for the first time on 3DS. I paused for a bit and came back to start the Mountain area. NGL, the time aspect is the most frustrating, but I can still see the beauty of it, considering they’ve built a schedule for each character. Something revolutionary at the time for the N64
Yeah I give that a small mention toward the end of the video. The story ideas were in the right place but I imagine a lot of people missed out on side quests and the end game because of the tedious three day cycle
@@ezalop123 I’ve honestly given up on it. OOT was fun while this felt more like a chore to play. There are other games I’m playing right now and I got the major points of this game via RUclips.
One thing that I always liked is that the game seems to be hinting at the 5 stages of grief with the different areas you explore. The whole game seems to be set up as the passage of grief from link because of the loss of Navi. I’ve also seen theories say that link died in the forest while looking for Navi and Majora’s Mask is him coming to terms with his fate, as he appears later in twilight princess in a similar fashion to the enemies you fight in ocarina in the woods. Not sure how much I buy that theory as canon but it’s really fun to think about!
One detail about using the song of storms to make the river in Ikana flow. If you play the composer brother there the song of healing first he says that he feels at peace, but his soul is far too deep into the darkness for the song to work completly. Only the song of storms can truly get rid of his curse. Also, the bubble enemies (the flaming floating skulls) if they touch Link they inflict a curse that stops Link from swinging his sword, playing the song of storms removes that since when you get the song the description says that the song of storms can remove curses.
That’s where people stop. Keep going. What is different about it? Look deep. It’s more real. Metaphorically more real, and takes us deeper into the minds of the NPC’s and their struggles. Wake up to what this masterpiece really does for the gamer that wants to come out of the Matrix and see it for what it really is
I actually realized that EVERY Zelda game outside of age of calamity is a depressing story. No matter what you do, everyone ends up getting slain at the hands of an evil that doesn't die.... Link and zelda are cursed to forever repeat the endless cycle of fighting Ganon and whatever else the malice uses, and thousands of innocents will lose their lives each time. A fate as inevitable as that scary ass moon crashing into clock town.....
I would like a Zelda game that shows the events that happened between Majora's Mask and Twilight Princess and see how the Hero of Time became the Hero's Shade.
Great video! Those side quests are wild and some very wholesome when competed. The urgency of the game being inspired by the underrated foreign film Run Lola Run is unexpected but neat!
Nonsense. This video and its narrator missed it completely. Plagiarism and cliches. “It’s the side quests that set this game apart” 🤮. Really? You need to dive deeper bro. There’s nothing here.
I truly understand that every theory about MM is important to make the game a bit more of an artistic expression than a full children's game. "You have a lot of friends, how many of these friends consider you a friend?" made me cry when I read it for the first time. But hey, important facts: 1 - japanese culture is very specific when it comes to dealing with death, relationships, being thankful, etc. They've also normally find amusement in very depressive subjects. 2 - the time constraints explain a lot of "holes" in the story. Happy Mask Salesman was a dropped idea on OoT that was used to its fullest on MM. I can see that many of these ideas come from not having enough time to create/design new characters or others. Zora's and Deku's are very underused on OoT and it seems it was planned for them to have extra storylines. 3 - Fierce Deity Mask is both: OP design for character (everyone who worked with Game Designers knows they'll often make some Super character based on MC), the name also gives it away. 4 - Not everyone says that, but the last dungeon was made to resemble Majora's incarnation (when's flipped, i think).
So I am born in 2008 in a country where Nintendo consoles and stuffs aren't popular So I had to download different emulators on my phone to play the old classic games I remember seeing legend of zelda in a RUclips video and deciding to download it I downloaded the ocarina of time A game that hit me so hard that I still tear up when I remember the ending When I completed the ending, I cried so hard, this was the same type of ending as prince of persia sands of time but it just hit different And as days passed on, I forgot about the game 1 or 2 years later I hear the ocarina tune on some random Instagram reel I was shocked, I didn't understand what was happening but the tune was depressing me, it was like as if I found a lost piece of my soul I opened the comments and saw the legendary words 'Legend of Zelda' and immediately remebered the game I started to tear up and cry, as I remembered everything. One of the best games I have ever played
My theory is that when link defeated the evil spirit in Majora's mask and finished his quest in Termina. He purposefully plaid the song of time and reset the time back to the dawn of the first day and let the moon crash into Termina on purpose. The hero of time link had learned and understood the purpose of the mask and does accepted his terrible fate. Termina became the twilight realm and link became the hero's shade.
The alternate dimention being like ' Link's Awakening' does match to what was said about the fierce deity mask being all of the people of termina... I also think in both games this is rich with the potential to explore how dream people are still people and hold a state within existance
@14:26 when i played this part as a kid..even then it was touching. Now im almost 36 and i have a son around Pamela's age and i imagine what if that happened to me and my lil guy had to try to care for me in the middle of nowhere ...scared and alone and then somehow i was turned back into normal to find out my lil guy was being a lil man taking care of me all this time.....and that, my friends, brings a tear to my eye. Thats how good exposition works. This part means soo much more when you are a parent. 😢
During the development of Majora's mask there was suppose to be a mask to make Link an adult and there are even screen captures with said mask. But the idea of making Link an adult was discarded, but not at all since later that mask became the Fierce Deity's mask.
Found your channel at random with the algorithm, you deserve a sub. Appreciate the hard work and passion you put in. I listen to RUclips videos while I work and while I can't watch I do listen and am now on a second video, enjoying your channel, thank you
I just wanted to comment on how much love I have for this game! When my little brother and I were young we always go to our neighbours who were a couple years older and they had a N64 and a GameCube! We played lots of Zelda while we watched which was amazing when you are young. I clearly remember we couldn't defeat Gyorg and we didn't knew how to obtain the Song of Storms. So we had to wait for a family birthday at my neighbours, when an much older nephew of them helped us while we were watching in awe. Amazing memories. Also playing a lot of Mario 64, Mario Kart Double Dash and of course Super Smash!
I love Mentok's storytelling! How you use you those audio clips & video clips at just the right time for maximum comedy. That's why I had to subscribe. A true Nintendologist who knows his stuff. Salute, brother.
Interesting how someone can make a video that seems good with zero substance. Don’t be fooled. This review is what is depressing. If MM depresses you it’s because you are asleep.
I remember this being my first LoZ game I played when I was 5 and I got my GameCube. There was just something about it on the LoZ collection that released on the GC that got my attention. I never really beat it till years later because I could never figure out what to do after the first day but it always stuck in the back of my mind and it still does now. It’s my favorite LoZ game and the only one that came close was Twilight Princess but it still didn’t hit the same notes. I still play MM at least once a year in fall. Gonna start up my next play through soon
This video is SO good omg. I LOVE the way you use lore about all of the Zelda games and go into so much detail. This video is a 10/10 and needs WAY more views. Have you ever played PHANTOM HOURGLASS? I think he finds Navi again after she figured out that she is the spirit of courage or something like that. Can you do a video about the lore of all the games that might be connected or maybe a timeline? I would love to see that ❤
I don't know how but I've never heard that theory about the Skull Kid going to Hyrule after being bannished. Pretty satisfying explanation as I always thought that story Gramma tells about him and the giants odd.
I think I understand the answer referring to the fierce. D mask, what he's saying is that we Essentially turn into the metaphysical representation of the hero that saved all the people within termina Even though our deeds are forgotten we aren't really forgotten to history itself. And I believe that's what the mask is meant to represent a forgotten hero.
Solid video, you were, iirc saying Tael’s name wrong tho. They should’ve just spelled it Tale and been done with it, because his and Tatl’s names are a play on words of the phrase “tattle tale”. I could be wrong on the pronunciation too I guess tho.
Link's Awakening was about a dream world that Link was pulled into, and the Boss was actually trying to keep the Wind Fish asleep so everyone wouldn't die. But the dream had to end and if you do it without dying, Marin, the dream incarnation of Malon and the inspiration for her for the designers for her in Ocarina of Time, will suddenly appear with wings so she can fly as she always wanted. I am entirely able to believe that Termina was created by the mask and it is incredibly sad to consider that once again all those we became attached to are about to vanish.
This is one of my favorite Zelda games ever, but I could never 100% it. I still planned to do it for a while, but last week i opened it and didnt know anything anymore. Think i need to star again
a lil fact: if you just play the song of healing, you will actually begin to run down through your bad memories and regrets As low keys, notes and registers makes us more emotional contrary to high notes that makes us cheerful, the song itself its very psychologically therapeutical for that sole reason You can come to terms with yourself hearing the song itself, its up to you to accept what happened, and how you process it
"Kafei and Anju, the only sidequest that will take the entire three day cycle to complete" nah but you're forgetting the Postman's mask! That takes the whole 3 days as well, technically, because it's parallel with Anju and Kafei's quest.
Very well made video, absolutely love this game. Doing a photography project sort of inspired by the masks of the game so I wanted to revisit the world through video essays and found this, loved it. Keep up the great work.
What an absolute masterpiece of a story! In just ONE year. Then you have them working on TotK for 6 or 7 years and a poorly done BotW reboot is all that comes out... So disappointing
I used to think that this game was just a fun game with no meaning. But after learning about the moon and the well... Story I was frightened by the overarching fear and depression
I guess this represents the madness of knowing the future and conflict of to change or not to change and the reason he doesn't have his faery is because she is probably stuck in the future waiting for link to catch up...Zelda sent link back to the past but not Navi...link has 7 years or more to wait imagine all the choices he has to decide on and funny thing is he actually talks to the witches and helps them... the question is what new reality happened?
With each video, your content creation skills advance incrementally. You've come so far, my brother and we're all proud of the work you've done. With each video, I actually see the growth and effort put together with your talent. Keep it going strong.
What if the "imp" mentioned wasn't Skull Kid, but majora itself? What if the "friend" was majora, and it's angry at being alone and banished for so long? Skull Kid, having been Majora's host, saw some of those memories and thought they were his own. And Link, when given the Fierce Deity masks, now has the potential to become an entity similar to majora and the 4 guardians.
I struggled to play this one as a kid because all the narrative devices went over my head and I just wanted to be Adult Link exploring new temples and getting new items. Looking back I respect the makers for trying to turn what was essentially a money grab into a passion project. . . But I still have a hard time recognizing it as the legitimate follow up to Ocarina
Interesting that the origin of the name was Mu-Jura. Japanese has sounds and symbols for Ma(マ), Jo(ジョ),and Ra(ラ), so I’m surprised it wouldn’t just be spelled out that way instead of Mujura (ムジュラ)
That passage in the encyclopedia shows how it can't be trusted as a canon source, anyone who's played the game knows that there are two cut scenes that immediately debunks the 'it was a glorified fever dream' theory, Termina absolutely existed long before Skullkid ever became a victim of Majora's Mask!
i've had that same dream about the moon falling to the earth but i don't know where my brain picked up the idea could be this game could be an old movie who knows, it's a messed up dream tho
The pronunciation of Zelda names is always a bit ambiguous, but I'm pretty sure Tael is supposed to be said like "tail" because Tatl + Tael = tattletale
I definitely think you’re right and I’m a little annoyed i never caught this before 😂Edit: Pinning this so people see that I noticed the mistake.
@@TheMentokit's ok man i thought it was pronounced mahora
It's definitely pronounced as Tattle tale 😊
They constantly snitch on everything to whoever they’re following so they’re definitely tattletales
I'm seeing this comment on the wrong video somehow. That, or someone pinned a comment on someone else's video. And people are talking about Majora's Mask on a video of Donkey Kong Country 2 music.
I feel that this is brushed aside a lot but the Hero of Time Link seems to be the most depressing out of all the Links. Despite his heroic actions in Hyrule and Termina, barely anyone took notice which made him a forgotten hero somewhat. And the fact the Hero's Spirit in Twilight Princess laments on not being remembered as a hero truly makes this Link one of the most tragic.
Pretty human flaw too, the greedy history of the land cost him his parents and in return he's forced to fight for it but receives no acknowledgement of it because none of it happened in the end. He takes the role of a healer and guardian in MM but who was there to heal him?
The Hero of Time Link is just such a fleshed out and well thought out character. No wonder his games are considered Nintendos magnum opus
@@RianzGoofy Zelda really went ahead and ruined everything for him at the end of Ocarina of time......
@@dr.metroid6119 yeah like after link saved the world she didn't think to give link a new purpose in life but instead link was in a cycle of depression shown in majora's mask with now with no purpose link thinks its the end of his world hints why that world has 3 days to live.
Majora's Mask is more like a work of art than a video game.
Love this comment. I’m annoyed beyond belief with people who just repeat the cliches. “Dark”, “creepy”, “depressing “, “it’s the side quests that set this game apart”. And they stop. That’s all they have to offer. Ignorant unintelligent shallow surface gibberish. An insult to the masterpiece.
@ummmumbridge66 that's part of what makes the game good, you are absolutely braindead and just being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian 😂😂😂😂
It’s possibly one of the best Zelda games of all time. Story wise in my opinion the most deep and dark. Nintendo has kinda made a comeback with darker themes with botw and totk
It's a psychologic masterpiece
It's a thought-provoking game. Somber all the way through. I've seen some hints of darker, melancholic themes in the recent Zelda games too, specially TOTK, but I wished Nintendo went a step further like what they did with Majora's Mask.
Not only one of my favorite Zelda game, but also one of my favorite game of all time.
My neighbor is letting me borrow his GameCube after I finish Ocarina so I can play Majoras Mask. I’m starting the Spirit temple. He’s letting me borrow It because myNintendo 64 MM cart broke stopped working
There’s a theory I heard about what happened to Navi. It’s speculated that the fairy passed away, like the fairies who heal you, once its purpose was fulfilled.
So like Mr. Meeseeks from Rick and morty. They are born to serve a purpose and when it's fulfilled they die.
@@rivas415 Yeah and they said she left him so he wouldn’t see her pass away
So in theory tattle and tael BOTH PASSED AFTER their purpose was done?
@@bangihautz5246Well their purpose is keeping the SkullKid company and since we see him again in Twilight Princess I think its safe to say Tatl and Tael are still alive
Never thought about that, wow that’s sad
The story of the music box house scared me shizless as a kid. And I remember being so, so determined to reunite Anju and Kafei-and getting so messed up in the upside-down dungeon. So many great memories from this game. Including the ghost dancing mask 😆 Excellent video!
It doesn’t help they made the Anju and Kafei quest the most tedious to complete 😭
@@TheMentok yessss and it was devastating to mess it up toward the end of the third day!
And to think, this game that is almost universally praised as a masterpiece was a _rush job._ Let that sink in for a few minutes.
It’s art. Sometimes the best art just gets popped out off the top of our minds. That’s because there’s more than just the artists will and desires. There are underlying forces and spirits attached to those ideas. Our ideas are not really only ours. They came from something and someone else. We are just carrying timeless truths.
Universally? I dunno wasn`t it more disliked when it first came out?
@@Jdudec367I wouldn't say disliked, but it was definitely considered the black sheep of the franchise for quite a few years.
I'm one of the only ones in my family who likes it, purely because my mom and sister, the only ones who would sit down to play it fully, got too stressed after the first few cycles and gave up on it- and they first played it around 2000-2003ish, along with Ocarina of Time
@@sierra121cyan Hm yeah that makes more sense I didn`t mean disliked as a whole.
Although lol you are lucky your family actually plays Zelda games too, I have a older brother who also does but that`s about it really.
@@Jdudec367 I wouldn't say lucky, since I'm so autistic at finding everything I can in Botw/Totk, so I'm called on as a walking wikipedia for finding stuff constantly
It’s really hard for me to play ocarina and majora’s mask because I play them on my older brothers Nintendo 64 and every time I login I can see his name file with everything maxed out. He passed away in 2016, I think about him every day. I Think about him the most when I am playing Ocarina and Majora’s Mask on my little CRT tv 📺 lol 😂❤You never fully learn to Appreciate Life until you lose someone you love forever. And that’s a cold hard motherfucking fact of life. Stay High 🌿☮️
Also lost my brother but in 2018 to a motorcycle accident and I know EXACTLY what you mean about certain things being ruined because of associating them with your brother. Take care of yourself.
I lost my brother because he's a max leveled pick that the entire family disowned.
Good times.
My condolences to all of your guys brothers
Is this the beginning of a creepy pasta
@@ianoheir3622shameful, dude. Not cool.
This game never fails to bring me to tears. Absolutely a beautiful, haunting game. Demi Butler mourning his son at the end really got me. I was crying snot booger type tears.
Happy Halloween! 🎃🎃
Majora’s mask being connected to Run Lola Run has fucked my head up more than I’d like to admit. Never made that connection, but it makes perfect sense.
Yup when the mask salesmen gets upset bc you didn’t get the mask absolutely scared me as a kid. His eyes scared me for life lol
MM was revolutionary in so many ways. I remember I would save Anju and Kafei's quest until my final run before the end so they would be able to get married
I would always go kill each of the bosses as partly a 'boss rush' but also then the regions would be purged of the blights before I take on the true villain.
By far my most favorite Zelda game, and absolutely one of the best games ever made imo.
I've just started getting into LOZ and i can say Majoras Mask is my favorite.
One of the best stories in all of Zelda imo ❤
True
Truth
I’m playing MM for the first time on 3DS. I paused for a bit and came back to start the Mountain area.
NGL, the time aspect is the most frustrating, but I can still see the beauty of it, considering they’ve built a schedule for each character. Something revolutionary at the time for the N64
Yeah I give that a small mention toward the end of the video. The story ideas were in the right place but I imagine a lot of people missed out on side quests and the end game because of the tedious three day cycle
3ds version is ruind in my
3Ds version is easier in the sense that if you play the inverted song of time you’re able to slow time 50% instead of just 30% in N64 version
@@ezalop123 I’ve honestly given up on it. OOT was fun while this felt more like a chore to play. There are other games I’m playing right now and I got the major points of this game via RUclips.
@@ezalop123 Its the other way around, N64 slows time to 33% of NORMAL speed, while 3DS is only 50%
One thing that I always liked is that the game seems to be hinting at the 5 stages of grief with the different areas you explore. The whole game seems to be set up as the passage of grief from link because of the loss of Navi. I’ve also seen theories say that link died in the forest while looking for Navi and Majora’s Mask is him coming to terms with his fate, as he appears later in twilight princess in a similar fashion to the enemies you fight in ocarina in the woods. Not sure how much I buy that theory as canon but it’s really fun to think about!
One detail about using the song of storms to make the river in Ikana flow. If you play the composer brother there the song of healing first he says that he feels at peace, but his soul is far too deep into the darkness for the song to work completly. Only the song of storms can truly get rid of his curse. Also, the bubble enemies (the flaming floating skulls) if they touch Link they inflict a curse that stops Link from swinging his sword, playing the song of storms removes that since when you get the song the description says that the song of storms can remove curses.
My favorite Zelda game just for the fact its so unZelda while still being very Zelda but not quite entirely Zelda
That’s where people stop. Keep going. What is different about it? Look deep. It’s more real. Metaphorically more real, and takes us deeper into the minds of the NPC’s and their struggles. Wake up to what this masterpiece really does for the gamer that wants to come out of the Matrix and see it for what it really is
link's awakening too
I actually realized that EVERY Zelda game outside of age of calamity is a depressing story. No matter what you do, everyone ends up getting slain at the hands of an evil that doesn't die.... Link and zelda are cursed to forever repeat the endless cycle of fighting Ganon and whatever else the malice uses, and thousands of innocents will lose their lives each time. A fate as inevitable as that scary ass moon crashing into clock town.....
Nintendo won't let them rest
the other series is just a multiverse from Oot and the 2 closest on to Oot is majara's mask and twilight
I would like a Zelda game that shows the events that happened between Majora's Mask and Twilight Princess and see how the Hero of Time became the Hero's Shade.
MM is such a depressing masterpiece, I've lost count of how many times I've played it.
Great video! Those side quests are wild and some very wholesome when competed. The urgency of the game being inspired by the underrated foreign film Run Lola Run is unexpected but neat!
Nonsense. This video and its narrator missed it completely. Plagiarism and cliches. “It’s the side quests that set this game apart” 🤮. Really? You need to dive deeper bro. There’s nothing here.
I truly understand that every theory about MM is important to make the game a bit more of an artistic expression than a full children's game. "You have a lot of friends, how many of these friends consider you a friend?" made me cry when I read it for the first time. But hey, important facts:
1 - japanese culture is very specific when it comes to dealing with death, relationships, being thankful, etc. They've also normally find amusement in very depressive subjects.
2 - the time constraints explain a lot of "holes" in the story. Happy Mask Salesman was a dropped idea on OoT that was used to its fullest on MM. I can see that many of these ideas come from not having enough time to create/design new characters or others. Zora's and Deku's are very underused on OoT and it seems it was planned for them to have extra storylines.
3 - Fierce Deity Mask is both: OP design for character (everyone who worked with Game Designers knows they'll often make some Super character based on MC), the name also gives it away.
4 - Not everyone says that, but the last dungeon was made to resemble Majora's incarnation (when's flipped, i think).
One of my favorite games of all-time. Epic. Disturbing. Superb. It has been underrated for decades.
big thank you for covering my favorite game of all time, I loved it! Happy Halloween!!
Truly incredible game that still sticks with me all these years later
My favorite Zelda game of all time it’s story characters and OST just blend together so well I love MM soooooooo much
So I am born in 2008 in a country where Nintendo consoles and stuffs aren't popular
So I had to download different emulators on my phone to play the old classic games
I remember seeing legend of zelda in a RUclips video and deciding to download it
I downloaded the ocarina of time
A game that hit me so hard that I still tear up when I remember the ending
When I completed the ending, I cried so hard, this was the same type of ending as prince of persia sands of time but it just hit different
And as days passed on, I forgot about the game
1 or 2 years later I hear the ocarina tune on some random Instagram reel
I was shocked, I didn't understand what was happening but the tune was depressing me, it was like as if I found a lost piece of my soul
I opened the comments and saw the legendary words 'Legend of Zelda' and immediately remebered the game
I started to tear up and cry, as I remembered everything.
One of the best games I have ever played
My theory is that when link defeated the evil spirit in Majora's mask and finished his quest in Termina. He purposefully plaid the song of time and reset the time back to the dawn of the first day and let the moon crash into Termina on purpose. The hero of time link had learned and understood the purpose of the mask and does accepted his terrible fate. Termina became the twilight realm and link became the hero's shade.
The alternate dimention being like ' Link's Awakening' does match to what was said about the fierce deity mask being all of the people of termina... I also think in both games this is rich with the potential to explore how dream people are still people and hold a state within existance
What i love so much about this Game is that the World feels so alive . So much emotions
A true Masterpiece and my favorite Game of all Time ❤
Truly one of the games of all time ♥
@14:26 when i played this part as a kid..even then it was touching. Now im almost 36 and i have a son around Pamela's age and i imagine what if that happened to me and my lil guy had to try to care for me in the middle of nowhere ...scared and alone and then somehow i was turned back into normal to find out my lil guy was being a lil man taking care of me all this time.....and that, my friends, brings a tear to my eye. Thats how good exposition works. This part means soo much more when you are a parent. 😢
A certified Zelda classic my older cousin used to scare me when I was younger by booting up majoras mask and playing it with me scares me every time
During the development of Majora's mask there was suppose to be a mask to make Link an adult and there are even screen captures with said mask. But the idea of making Link an adult was discarded, but not at all since later that mask became the Fierce Deity's mask.
Found your channel at random with the algorithm, you deserve a sub. Appreciate the hard work and passion you put in. I listen to RUclips videos while I work and while I can't watch I do listen and am now on a second video, enjoying your channel, thank you
Great review! I thoroughly enjoyed it.. and love this game .
I just wanted to comment on how much love I have for this game! When my little brother and I were young we always go to our neighbours who were a couple years older and they had a N64 and a GameCube! We played lots of Zelda while we watched which was amazing when you are young. I clearly remember we couldn't defeat Gyorg and we didn't knew how to obtain the Song of Storms. So we had to wait for a family birthday at my neighbours, when an much older nephew of them helped us while we were watching in awe. Amazing memories. Also playing a lot of Mario 64, Mario Kart Double Dash and of course Super Smash!
I love Mentok's storytelling! How you use you those audio clips & video clips at just the right time for maximum comedy.
That's why I had to subscribe. A true Nintendologist who knows his stuff. Salute, brother.
Interesting how someone can make a video that seems good with zero substance. Don’t be fooled. This review is what is depressing. If MM depresses you it’s because you are asleep.
I love how Tatl and Tael’s names sound like “tattletale” it’s such a neat pun
I remember this being my first LoZ game I played when I was 5 and I got my GameCube. There was just something about it on the LoZ collection that released on the GC that got my attention. I never really beat it till years later because I could never figure out what to do after the first day but it always stuck in the back of my mind and it still does now. It’s my favorite LoZ game and the only one that came close was Twilight Princess but it still didn’t hit the same notes. I still play MM at least once a year in fall. Gonna start up my next play through soon
Does anyone realize the part with the father and daughter is because he was gone so long she didnt recognize him?
This video is SO good omg. I LOVE the way you use lore about all of the Zelda games and go into so much detail. This video is a 10/10 and needs WAY more views. Have you ever played PHANTOM HOURGLASS? I think he finds Navi again after she figured out that she is the spirit of courage or something like that. Can you do a video about the lore of all the games that might be connected or maybe a timeline? I would love to see that ❤
I like to not believe in what the Encyclopedia says.
We see Skill kid playing with the fairies in the field in a cutscenes without Majora's Mask
I remember when I was six and my dad got me the Zelda collection on GameCube and I spend like an hour trying to stop the moon was falling 😭😭😭😭😭
Majora's Mask and Skyward Sword have the best stories
I don't know how but I've never heard that theory about the Skull Kid going to Hyrule after being bannished. Pretty satisfying explanation as I always thought that story Gramma tells about him and the giants odd.
This game is so well thought out by the creators. Such a masterpiece.
I like the theory that the game is about link dying and being in limbo
I think I understand the answer referring to the fierce. D mask, what he's saying is that we Essentially turn into the metaphysical representation of the hero that saved all the people within termina
Even though our deeds are forgotten we aren't really forgotten to history itself. And I believe that's what the mask is meant to represent a forgotten hero.
I could see Termina being a representation of Skull Kid's trauma.
Solid video, you were, iirc saying Tael’s name wrong tho. They should’ve just spelled it Tale and been done with it, because his and Tatl’s names are a play on words of the phrase “tattle tale”. I could be wrong on the pronunciation too I guess tho.
Always got freaked out at the transformation scenes…..glad I could skip them. A lot of this game was on mute for me as a kid bc I kept getting scared
When I was a kid I’d just put on all the different masks and make up my own story! The zora mask was my favorite
Navi going missing becomes Links spiritual navigator, the chase to be the hero makes him become a much bigger hero.
Wasn’t even born when this game came out and he says I should feel old
Link's Awakening was about a dream world that Link was pulled into, and the Boss was actually trying to keep the Wind Fish asleep so everyone wouldn't die. But the dream had to end and if you do it without dying, Marin, the dream incarnation of Malon and the inspiration for her for the designers for her in Ocarina of Time, will suddenly appear with wings so she can fly as she always wanted. I am entirely able to believe that Termina was created by the mask and it is incredibly sad to consider that once again all those we became attached to are about to vanish.
I love you’re edits lmao but great ass video man
Should of talked about where the design choice for the aliens. It's rather interesting.
Is it just me, or did other people notice that the fairies are essentially named Tattle and Tale.
Most of us noticed it. You must be a new Majoras mask player lol
That’s kinda the point of naming them that lol
Congratulations, you cracked the code
This is one of my favorite Zelda games ever, but I could never 100% it. I still planned to do it for a while, but last week i opened it and didnt know anything anymore.
Think i need to star again
We need to talk about how well made this video is
a lil fact: if you just play the song of healing, you will actually begin to run down through your bad memories and regrets
As low keys, notes and registers makes us more emotional contrary to high notes that makes us cheerful, the song itself its very psychologically therapeutical for that sole reason
You can come to terms with yourself hearing the song itself, its up to you to accept what happened, and how you process it
"Kafei and Anju, the only sidequest that will take the entire three day cycle to complete" nah but you're forgetting the Postman's mask! That takes the whole 3 days as well, technically, because it's parallel with Anju and Kafei's quest.
I never liked majors mask when I was a kid but love it now when I got older
Awesome Video!!! Been anxiously waiting for it since you wrapped up your great Ocarina of Time video!!!
Very well made video, absolutely love this game. Doing a photography project sort of inspired by the masks of the game so I wanted to revisit the world through video essays and found this, loved it. Keep up the great work.
Played this masterpiece on my 3DS when I was 8, loved it since
Playing it again on my phone. Then MM. It still 🔥
The best asset flip to ever exist
Pamela’s story makes me cry. I miss my father😢
This video slaps, great channel
I’ve always wanted to go back to Termina. I just played this again on my Switch. 100% game completion in the first run.
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance= Majora's 5 areas
What an absolute masterpiece of a story! In just ONE year. Then you have them working on TotK for 6 or 7 years and a poorly done BotW reboot is all that comes out... So disappointing
I used to think that this game was just a fun game with no meaning. But after learning about the moon and the well... Story I was frightened by the overarching fear and depression
I guess this represents the madness of knowing the future and conflict of to change or not to change and the reason he doesn't have his faery is because she is probably stuck in the future waiting for link to catch up...Zelda sent link back to the past but not Navi...link has 7 years or more to wait imagine all the choices he has to decide on and funny thing is he actually talks to the witches and helps them... the question is what new reality happened?
could you imagine the ocarina of time and majoras mask in an serie , anime or movie serie
With each video, your content creation skills advance incrementally. You've come so far, my brother and we're all proud of the work you've done. With each video, I actually see the growth and effort put together with your talent. Keep it going strong.
Great video, thanks for sharing your thoughts!
I wish they could bring MM 3DS to the Switch as they streamlined a lot of issues i had from the 64 version
Majora's Mask is byfar my favorite Zelda game
What if the "imp" mentioned wasn't Skull Kid, but majora itself?
What if the "friend" was majora, and it's angry at being alone and banished for so long?
Skull Kid, having been Majora's host, saw some of those memories and thought they were his own.
And Link, when given the Fierce Deity masks, now has the potential to become an entity similar to majora and the 4 guardians.
I struggled to play this one as a kid because all the narrative devices went over my head and I just wanted to be Adult Link exploring new temples and getting new items. Looking back I respect the makers for trying to turn what was essentially a money grab into a passion project. . . But I still have a hard time recognizing it as the legitimate follow up to Ocarina
My mind thought that the toilet with the hand was the pre-evolution of skibbi toilet or the og skibbi toilet.
Its been 23 years since this game came out and you should feel old.
Me: >:( Damn whipper snapper
Well good to know I didnt miss out on anything as a child
Interesting that the origin of the name was Mu-Jura. Japanese has sounds and symbols for Ma(マ), Jo(ジョ),and Ra(ラ), so I’m surprised it wouldn’t just be spelled out that way instead of Mujura (ムジュラ)
One of the best games ❤
Piece of art… the game as well as this video
I miss the old Nintendo, not afraid to break our heart in order to make us feel, think and reflect....
The unsung hero who became the hero shade
Im still waiting to see that happy mask salesman he said we will see him again
Absolute masterpiece
For anyone interested in a Hans Zimmer like feel to MMs music, you must hear ROZEN. You will not be disappointed.
That passage in the encyclopedia shows how it can't be trusted as a canon source, anyone who's played the game knows that there are two cut scenes that immediately debunks the 'it was a glorified fever dream' theory, Termina absolutely existed long before Skullkid ever became a victim of Majora's Mask!
i've had that same dream about the moon falling to the earth but i don't know where my brain picked up the idea could be this game could be an old movie who knows, it's a messed up dream tho
Love Majora’s Mask, one of my favorite games and it’s definitely a real tear jerker
Good video bro
You missed the fairies name play its pronounced tatl and tael as in tattletale