htsamurai wrote:Majora's Mask is the worst thing to happen to Zelda since the CD-I games
Please clarify.
Let me put my OPINION out first, as it's ok with me if you don't like Majora's Mask. I had a friggin' blast playing it.
0. Time travel and time manipulation gives me a giant bogner.
1. You get to play the whole game as Young Link (I enjoyed the Young Link parts of OoT much more than the adult Link parts, including his awesome penis).
2. You are actually REWARDED for the intricate, challenging tasks that you complete. I.E. THE MASKS. In Twilight Princess, for instance, if you complete an intricate and time-consuming task, you were most likely rewarded with rupees (ugggghhh) or a 1/4 Heart Piece (UUUUGGGGHHHH). Why do I need rupees? I DON'T. I have everything I need. Why do I need more hearts? I DON'T, TP is way too easy, unlike Majora's Mask, in which many enemies and bosses were actually quite a challenge. Anyway, the masks... 20 in all?... were so much fun to fuck around with. Each one of them turned you into a different Terminian superhero of sorts. Bunny Hood? FUCK YEAH. Bomb Mask? FUCK YYYEAAAAHHH!
3. A fun and interesting town that has layers upon of layers of character development and mystery (the same can be said for OoT, just not quite as complex).
4. Still got to use the Ocarina and learn different songs.
5. Great foreboding, sci-fi storyline that had nothing to do with Zelda, Ganon, or Hyrule (although I love all of those things, it's been done.).
6. Fierce Diety mask.
7. Psychedelic and trippy final stage including the grassy meadow and giant tree on the surface of the Moon, with the odd characters in the masks, and the final confrontation with Majora's Mask itself, and its various monstrous forms. In fact, most of the game is pretty trippy itself... the music, the art, the story.
8. THE MASKS!
9. It was actually very challenging, a trait that has not happened with a Zelda game since Majora's Mask.
10. Groundhog's Day-esque time setup, and all the different schedules of various people that you have to figure out in order to advance in the game.
Majora's Mask is a brilliant, amazingly intricate game. I would say as far as innovation, OoT is the superior game. I really love WindWaker, and go back to that every few years; however, it was a pretty easy game. I feel that Twilight Princess, while fun, was a grand disappointment. Besides the wolf dynamic, there was basically nothing new to add to the Zelda canon. I consider Twilight Princess to be a "greatest hits" of Zelda games, combining all of the interesting and successful elements from all of the games that came before it. Otherwise, I would only put Twilight Princess above the second NES Zelda game. And yes, I will go there:
The Legend Of Zelda1. A Link To The Past (the greatest video game ever created, IMO)
2. Ocarina Of Time
3. WindWaker and Majora's Mask (can't decide)
5. The Legend Of Zelda
6. Twilight Princess
7. Link's Awakening
8. Zelda II: The Adventure Of Link
9. The Minnish Cap
Now, these are all FANTASTIC games... and actually, I COULD put TP, the original, and Zelda II in the exact same ranking. I really love The Adventure Of Link... THAT'S a hard fucker. As far as replay value, ALttP, OoT, and WindWaker have the greatest draw for me. Since completing Twilight Princess for the one and only time, I have had NO desire to replay that, giving it a replay value of zero. I've gone through ALttP so many times that the replay value has gone down a bit, but if I had WindWaker RIGHT NOW, I'd pop that shit in.
BTW, The Skyward Sword does not look interesting to me at all. I'll play it, because it's Zelda, and I'll hold my judgment until I'm done, but Miyamoto promised something new, and it doesn't look new at all. And motion control BLOWS. The Wii is killing video games (although I must state that I have Nintendo in my blood since I got an NES when I was 6 in 1987, and have owned every Nintendo console since then. However, I do not currently own a Wii, because I think the quality of games has plummeted since its release).
Thank you!
Your thoughts are welcome.
C
