Why do so many people think this is the best Zelda game?
>>744679574because it's the "dark" one and also the one that most people haven't finished so you can be edgy and elitist at the same time.
>>744679574Different pacing than other games in the series, weirder setting and interesting themes.It is extremely divisive. Even the developers seem to be kind of ashamed of what they did with it, which is always interesting to see with creative works.
Because it doesn't gave any of the cliche shit (saving zelda, triforce, ganon)
>>744679574Because no other game before or since has been able to make a believable world where every character in it is actually doing something all day.Dungeons are goodBosses good tooCharacter interactions are memorable
>why do so many people think the best zelda game is the best zelda game?It's a mystery, innit.
>>744679574First game I 100%’d. Fierce Diety’s + lonlon milk made the final boss facerolls
https://youtu.be/e056R97svz8
The only Nintendo game with good writing.
>>744680386>make a believable world where every character in it is actually doing something all day.Oblivion tried and honestly did okay with it.Literally the only two games to do so though.
NPCs doing something different every day was really cool back in the day. Also all of the different mask effects were fun.
>>744679574There's been such a strange switch up on Majora's Mask in the past ten years. I think it has something to do with creepypasta and pretentious youtube videos.
>>744679574Mature, well written themes that respect the playerGood new mechanics and dungeon designInteresting and meaningful side content that feels as polished as the main storyMelon's melons
>>744679574Less dungeons, more sidequests
Because it is/thread NEXT QUESTION
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>>744679574Because it improves OOT while being a unique experience and it got it right in a couple months while the series could never reach that high again even 27 years later
>>744679574If you think otherwise, you got filtered. Same with OG WW and TP
It's the Mise en scène
it's the last time the series had real creativity and ambition with pretty good execution, depending on how you feel about BotW
>>744679574it tried something different, like really different.
>>744679574Play it and find out. Its rather short
>>744684437>ack
It has a lot of soul unironically
I wonder if Nintendo will bother remaking this if the OOT Remake does well. I feel like this game can't really be remade in a satisfactory manor as the N64 aesthetic is part of its appeal. If it had hire this man graphics it would detract from the game.
>>744679730fpbp total truth nuke obliteration
The most unsettling thing about Majora's Mask is no matter how hard you try you simply cannot do everything in those three days. Just like real life you can help as much as you can but you can't stop the inevitable. Everyone you know is destined to have something bad happen to them that you can't do anything about. Each good deed done in this game is reset like it didn't matter in the grand scheme of things. Stopping the moon will only cause the problems you failed to solve persist until the ones they had plagued pass away. You can't stop the progression of time, you can't save everyone, one must accept this reality and come to terms. In a sense, the moon falling down on everyone is the only way to make every single problem go away at once.
>>744679730Let me guessYou think links awakening and wind waker are the ""best""
>>744689484>Links Awakening>goodWho started this meme?
>>744679574Strong narrative driven experience.
>>744679574Because many zelda fans actually played Majora
>Nobody says Fedoras Mask anymore
>>744679574Because every other Zelda game is just Link to the Past with a fresh coat of paint or open world slopMajora's Mask and the GB games are the only other flavor so it gets easy points for being pretty unique, despite the obvious model reuses
Because it is.
>>744690517I wish every other game was link to the pastBeing mostly open ended but railroaded in some bitsInstead everything is ocarina rehashesLineae moviegames until you complete like 80% of the game then you can actually explore
>>744679574for me its zelda 2, mm and botw desu
>>744690727The linear cutscenes were the fresh coat of pain that Ocarina added
>>744690517>Majora's Mask and the GB games are the only other flavor>the gb games>LA>basically diet watered down zelda alttp (bad)>Oracle games>TLoZ (good)
>>744690795Yeah, and they stuck in wind waker, tp, skyward...Also ocarina added the shitty samey ass grottos and skulltulasSo it seems shrines and koroks were ocarinas idea.Not even going to mention the breakable sword or deku stick
>>744679574safe adult game for children
>>744689898me personally
>>744688759Links awakening was a dogshit game with so many design flaws and>pauses>switches off sword for braceletSo many fucking annoying decisions made in it that>pauses>switches bracelet for featherSimply dont fucking make sense considering>pauses>switches shield for pegasus boots>The fact even zelda 1 and 2 had fucking>pauses>switches feather for braceletPassive items to begin with.
Having Doomsday scenario right in your fucking face instead of NPC constantly prattling about it happening off screen is much cooler.
>>744691169Kek filtered
>>744691169what if I want to randomly jump or use bracelet on grass or a cuckoo, huh? didn't think of that. genius design
I’m the anon
>>744679574just trolls.a moon with a dumb face? jew nosed giants? mask transformations? almost all assets are reused from OOT, almost no unique characters?the game is a joke. it's ridiculous nonsense. OOT is a serious medieval adventure story based on european folklore (peter pan, king arthur, ...) with a great atmosphere and music, a masterpiece. there is no comparison.
>>744697716You're a faggot if you cant appreciate both
>>744681631>improves on OOTNot really, and personally I think that's why it's remembered so dearlyIt tried to be its own thing rather than Ocarina 2.0 or in this case Ocarina but better, it's the prime example of an expansion pack that does it's own shit.
>>744679574It was a great DLC, can't argue you that...
>Hey! lets make a player restart a side quest because the day changed!>Hey! lets make the player farm for his weapons/items whenever he goes back in time!>Hey! lets make 99% of the masks useless!>Hey! let's add a time limit for a series known for it's exploration!
>>744679574Because it is.
>>744679574MM was never liked when it came out. It was considered the black sheep of the series along with Zelda 2. Only edgy contrarians started larping about it around the late 2000's early 2010's.
>>744698115Hey! lets make a player restart a side quest because the day changed!This only becomes a problem in the Couple Mask sidequest because it can branch off in several results>Hey! lets make the player farm for his weapons/items whenever he goes back in time!Oh no i have to go cut grass in Termina in 2 minutes, the horror>Hey! lets make 99% of the masks useless!I'll give you this one since like half of them are for a Piece of Heart and that's it>Hey! let's add a time limit for a series known for it's exploration!Unironically filtered lmao.
Because it has the best story, best characters, most interesting lore, and is tinged with sadness all throughout. Because the gameplay was fun and it remixed/added to stuff introduced in OoT, itself a fantastic game.Incredible music that added to the game's atmosphere. An incredibly unique time system that gave weight to everything you did in a given cycle.NPCs that have mapped out routines, that make the world feel alive even though it came out 26 years ago. For once, they had no one breathing down their neck that they couldn't add a story to a Zelda game that wouldn't put Miyamoto to sleep, and the result was the best game in the Zelda series.I've long held this opinion since I beat it in like 2004, and I had by this point cleared OoT like 5 times at least.
>>744697961It has some unique elements. the time mechanic was unique. but it is not the same type of game. it is not a serious game. it derivative work. is inferior artistically, dumb frankly and japanese-weird, not european based, and inferior in numerous other metrics.
>>744698338Why do aphoids always pretend they remember the 2000s?
Why does everyone give Twilight Princess shit for it's intro when this one was long and boring too.
>>744679574I like it, but one of my big issues with the game is that it gets really repetitive to go through the 3 days over and over if you're on a blind playthrough, it wastes a lot of time.
>>744698795tbf you can actually skip most of it by dancing with the scarecrow, but yeah the intro is the weakest part.
>>744680891yea no shit it started back in 2010 when the ben videos happenedi literally had friends who told me they fucking hated MM and the instant that shit came out they did a 180kill all poser faggots
>>744698795because old good new bad
>>744698795If we count TP's early-game twilight sections as the game's "intro" then it's probably about four times as long as Majora's first three days. And I think it's fair to count them as such since they're boring as fuck and restrict the player from accessing the majority of the game's content. Seriously I would love TP if the beginning weren't such a slog.
>>74469879510 minute intro VS 2-3 hoursgee i wonder why
>>744679574The real answer is because of the three day cycle, it makes the world feel alive.
>>744679574its fun to figure out and it is very rewarding to do well in and has a lot of different things to "play" around with like masks. for instance if you pay attention to the game you be able to slow time to half speed almost immediatly which feels good. If you do that you will feel rewarded and enjoy the game more. If you dont do that then you will probably hate the game because not only are you the type of person to miss really important things like that but now you are playing the game on what is relatively a hardmode
>>744698115Filtered...Cope, seethe and kysFaggot
>>744689484Ocarina of TimeWind WakerLink's AwakeningThose are best.Sincerely, someone else than the guy you asked.
>>744680326>saving zeldadon't you do that at the very end?
>>744698562Kill yourself
>>744679574it's the most unique of the "main" titles, nothing plays like it, or progresses like it, also yeah it goes into the darker/more bizarre visuals than most of the other Zelda's
>>744679574It's the most dandori-pilled Zelda game, making it the best by default.
>>744699354Even if you don't use the scarecrow the first cycle runs on a faster clock than the game's default.
LOL
It's the artsy one.
>>744680132>weirder setting and interesting themes.This. It isn't "dark" it's weird and in a good way
>>744680525With Fierce Deity + Romani Milk, it's Link who becomes the Final Boss.
>>744679574It was pretty great at the time and still is but the ideas are more interesting than their implementation. Id anything it's a miracle the game was as good as it was with the turnaround had. The 3DS port sucks.
Majora has circled right into being the most overrated Zelda because Internet decided to adopt it as it's special child. It's liked almost completely based on vibes, it isn't too different from the Internet obsession with Earthbound. All it's flaws are ignored since the game is a sacred cow.
>>744709464>the most overrated ZeldaWind Waker has been coasting on "heh, well the graphics aged well!" and absolutely nothing else for actual decades.
>>744679574Because nearly every other game ever made operates at the pace of the player, with time effectively standing still waiting for your inputIt's one of a small handful of games where the story unfolds, characters do things and events happen whether you're there to interact with them or notThis makes the world feel alive in a way games decades later still struggle to accomplish
>>744679574The NPCs are what carry it imo.
>>744679574It had smart design and appeals to the smarter gamers.>>744679730Fuck off retard. TP was "dark" and it's dogshit.
>>744709565This. Wind Waker is utter trash that has no content, but looks and sounds exotic.
>>744679574the standard Zelda formula set by ALttP is a little bland and MM is one of the few 3D Zeldas to try something distinctly different from other games by focusing more on the world and NPCs.
>744710429Work harder for that (You)
What are good standard rando settings you guys like for MM?
>>744710429TP is trash, but it brought us the sexy impall the majora sluts are copypasted
>>744679574>so manyIt's just a vocal minority.
>>744713504Why did so many people drop off between OOT and MM? Was it because of that stupid Expansion Pack thing Majoras Mask required?
>>744679574If you're autistic and a schizo this is one of the best playgrounds youll ever find
>>744713584That and being released nearly at the end of the life cycle of the failed N64.
>>744713584>Why did so many people drop off between OOT and MM?Because it was just a lazy asset flip.
>>744679574Beyond the darker atmosphere that everyone hops on mentioning I really adore it's focus on side-quests and characters way more than other entries more common formula of focusing on story progression via a lot of temples and speaking of story I like how character-driven Majora's Mask is unlike other entries. Also the time/day cycle system gives me a Pikmin-esque appeal where I try to do everything 100% as efficiently and as in little cycles as I can so I find it very replayable as result.
>>744679574because it fucking rocksthe rest of the series is good as wellyou fuckers are joyless retards
>>744679574It was the last Zelda game Yoshiaki Koizumi worked on.
>>744679574I think it's cool but I was too retarded as a kid and got overwhelmed by the side shit so I pretty much avoided playing it until later in my life, like during my teenage years.Really prefer OOT. I just like playing as Adult Link, he's cool.
Its good but i prefer its sequel Twilight Princess Link ended up a wreck and now appears as a ghost and teach to the new Link
>>744679730It's not dark. It's actually quite comfy. It just deal with mature themes of lost and death. The "creepy horror" reputation completely misses the warm, deeply intimate heart of Termina. While surface elements like the looming moon and transformation animations carry dread, the actual gameplay engine is driven by empathy, routine, and quiet sanctuary. Once you learn Clock Town's rhythm, the world feels less like an apocalyptic wasteland and more like a living, familiar neighborhood.You know precisely when the Postman goes on his route, when Anju checks the front desk at the Stock Pot Inn, and when the Indigo-Go's rehearse. You aren't just saving a realm from afar; you're sitting in on town meetings, listening to Grandma's stories by the fire, and relaxing at the Milk Bar.Link’s primary tool for progression isn't brute force: it's the Song of Healing. You ease the grief of tormented spirits, turning their lingering regrets into instruments of aid. The game confronts death, but its resolution is consistently focused on peace, closure, and emotional relief.It is actually a story about human connection in the face of the inevitable. It achieves a deeply poignant, surprisingly comforting tone.
>>744679574it nails the element of surprise like no others
>>744716239Mate, you write like a chatbot.
>>744716315because it is a chat bot everything that is more than 3 sent3nces and makes no sp3lling mist3aks is a chat botyou mihh5 be one 2
>>744713504Did SS really sell more on Switch than on Wii?
I missed out on OoT, and MM was my first "actual" Zelda I played, so there's a special nostalgic quality to it, for me at least.Apart from that, I enjoy the more compact, claustrophobic nature of the game instead of the epic, time-spanning scale of OoT.Also, Cremia.
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>>744679574because of the bunny hood
it's a remarkable phenomenon that budget constraints often produced the most memorable results during this period. MM is timeless and memorable because it was a budget-constrained team working with existing art assets to create a dreamlike fantasy redo of the original game, based on a deeply held conviction about a vision of the darkness underlying the original oot artisitc direction. basically the lack of resources for the cash grab asset flip sequel allowed them more conceptual freedom in defining aspects of the gameworld that were merely implicit in the original oot art direction.
>>744716315>Anon gives a coherent, genuine post>HURR CHATBOTYou were better off not replying.
>>744727521>genuineHow can a machine be genuine?
>>744727521No, it's not the content of the post. It's just the general cadence. Like someone writing a sales pitch for a product they want to show to a boardroom.
I think minish cap is the best zelda
>>744680525You will kill all three forms of majora without running out of magic with the base meter. Just don't waste too many swings.
For me? It's A Link Between Worlds
>>744716239>It's not darkThe game was heavily marketed as being dark and edgy.
