How do you think kids felt looking up and seeing this? Do you think Nintendo took it a bit to far for what was meant to be an E-rated title?
you mean kids can't handle an angry looking ball in the sky? i disagree
>>12517525>How do you think kids felt looking up and seeing this?Having been a kid at the time, it creeped me out. The whole game creeped me out, especially the innocuous stuff.
>>12517525it's very unsettling, but also very easy to not see the moon during gameplay while running around and swordfighting shit. you gotta really stop and take a moment to stare up into the sky and at the moon, in a sense that's a little creepy, because at the back of your mind you know you could stop and take a moment to stare at the abyss, or just keep running around business as usual and try not to think about it.
Nintoddlers piss and shit themselves in mario 64, the answer is obvious
>>12517525I did not like it. I'm not gonna be overly dramatic and act like it scared the shit out of me or gave me nightmares or anything, because it didn't, but I didn't actually want to play the game because the whole "time limit to impending apocalypse" aspect just gave me anxiety and didn't make it seem appealing.It might've been the time limit that bothered me more than the moon itself though
>>12517559Inverted song of time and owl statues takes a lot of the anxiety away, and even then you can just reset to the start of the first day. You have to actually TRY to get termina destroyed.
it was really creepy, but i think children should be exposed to some scary stuff early on, as long as it's done in an artistic or meaningful way. majora's mask was one of the few n64 games i had as a child, and i remember liking the somber, creepy, and melancholy atmosphere. too far is probably a lot of r-rated horror movies. those gave me night terrors, but at the same time, no piece of horror media scared me past age 10 thanks to my dad and older bro showing me horror stuff early on. i know fully grown adults who are too afraid to watch or play anything scary now. kids shouldn't be exposed to porn or irl violence, but, as long as their parents are actually parenting them, a piece of media can't hurt them.
>>12517525Kids were tougher in those days. My parents let me watch R-rated movies when I was 6 years old. I was watching shit like Hellraiser, The Gate and Robocop on a daily basis. None of us gave a shit about spooky shit in vidya.
>>12517550Thats pretty deep.
>>12517617>>>/pol/
>>12517613thisjesus christ fuck millennoomers
>>12517525I saw Alien when I was 7. Kids don't get traumatized so easily.
Yo I've actually played this game. It gets wilder - they give this child a deadly weapon, he brandishes it in-town, then he goes out and murders animals with it!It's like a psycho killer training simulator.Appalling! This is an E-rated game!
>>12518150Lool
This was my first zelda game at the age of 6. That's a great age to play games, because you're old enough to read, but not old enough to understand what you're doing, and you're also not old enough to understand the difference between fiction and reality. So when I heard that the moon was gonna fall in 3 days, I began panicking, actually believing the real moon would fall. Then when the game said 2 days remaining, I thought it wasn't fair because it hasn't even been a full day yet. I of course had no idea what I was doing so I obviously let the timer run out. When I actually saw the moon in the game about to fall from the sky I turned my console off and hid in my closet. Took me about 3 minutes or so before I realized how stupid I was being. True story.
How do you think people felt when playing total KINO in 2000?
>>12517525I it was so terrifying that I never even made it to the game's first dungeon
>>12517525For the most part I thought it was silly, but it could be a little unsettling in the 3rd day when its very close to Termina.
>>12518234I always wished for a dedicated goron race game or mod, rolling around Termina was fun as fuck.
>>12517525Scary things don't influence the rating. Like, at all.
>>12517525Oh my frickin heck this is nightmare fuel
I was like 10 and while I found it somewhat unsettling I was mostly fascinated by the concept>why does the moon have a face>why is it angryand later>why the fuck does it suck you inside>why the actual fuck is there a surreal meadow insideI was mostly weirded out by that game, even more so than OoT. Not in a bad way, but sometimes it kept me from really losing myself in the game because I kept thinking about the deeper meaning (ie deeper lore) behind it, and it's never really explained, it's just established as it is without much backstory.
>>12517548same, i remember renting it when it was new and thinking it was a bit creepy but what really made me not want to play was the timer.played it a few times without being able to figure out how to stop the moon and then just never played it again. i liked to just explore and do random shit taking my time through these kinds of games, not feel like i had to do x,y,z within certain amounts of time.
>>12517525I didn't find anything in Majora's nearly as scary as I did OoT, although holding off the aliens at Romani Ranch was kinda tense. I still think OoT is kind of unsettling and the world feels kind of dead so you feel very alone while MM's world feels alive.
>>12517525It looked bad ass.
I would run around clocktown and pretend i was a detective spying on people.
>>12518410There is no deep lore, its just nips sucking their own dicks and pretending theyre better than baka gaijin.
I honestly doubt any child played this game it was aimed at teenagers and adults i doubt a child could have completed all of Stone Tower Temple without using guides my cousin who passed away loved this game i used to watch him play it when i was a kid shortly after the release of this game when i was a child Majora Mask terrified me
>>12517613This is abusive parenting. Not something to be proud of. It's something to be ashamed of. Exposing children to sadism is objectively a shameful and abusive act.
>>12517525Fuck that moon is pissed off.
>>12517525As a kid when this came out, it felt epic to go against moreso than scary. I loved the high stakes of the main quest combined with the low stakes of side quests once you're given control of the pace of time.
>>12519992You probably think letting kids play outside is abuse somehow.
>>12517525It used to scare the shit out οf me, especially since I had the GCN version with the distorted audio.
>>12517525I was a teenager and it hit extremely right. Nintendo finally gave me a crumb of edge after I had all but abandoned them for Sony.
All I remember from my first time playing Majora's Mask was just being confused about what to do and getting frustrated because I kept getting game overs. I think it took me like a week to figure out how to complete the first cycle and like actually start the game for real.
>>12517525>E-rated title?The ESRB has no descriptor for horror or scariness. You could basically make the freakiest most grotesque horror game imaginable and it would still get an E as long as there's no killing and blood.
>>12517525I wasn’t a kid but I was in college and on mushrooms the first time I tried it. I made it to the deku palace during my first session playing the game, but was peaking and functionally retarded when I got there so when the guards told me to turn back because I wasn’t allowed in, I was like “oh okay” then wandered around aimlessly for the rest of the 3 day cycle. I watched the moon crashing cutscene and had to turn the game off because it freaked me out too much.Honestly the worst part was inside the clock tower when the happy mask salesman would make drastically different faces every time you advanced the dialog. Really terrible game to play on psychedelics in hindsight.
>>12521694i feel like you got a one of a kind experience
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>>12517525>How do you think kids felt looking up and seeing this?"Damn, that shit's ugly. Fun game though, better than OOT."That's what I thought.
>>12521380My childhood friend told me that the moon shit was οnly the first part of the game and you still had to save Zelda and shit
>>12517525Kids were less sensitive bitches back then. Are you afraid of the dark was a literal horror show for kids w many endings left in a bad state like the kid who was so caught up in video games he was left in the mall after closing, haunted by some monsters of the week and is left trapped inside an alternate dimension by the ending iirc. Majoras Mask was unsettling at times but OoT literally has a dungeon filled w torture devices and zombies.
