dragon896's Full Review: The Legend Of Zelda: Majora'S Mask for Nintendo 64
This is a pretty good game. It has many nice features that can make it fun to play even after you've beaten it, and some problems which can be annoying.
The Good
One of the main features of it is how you can be different species. You can be a Deku which can hop on water, shoot bubbles, and fly out of flowers; a Goron, who can roll through fields in a ball of fire, and punch his enemies; or a Zora, who can swim through water with fluid controls, walk on bottoms of lakes, make an electrical field, and shoot his fins as boomerangs. The only catch is you can only be these creatures after you get their transformation masks.
You can also collect 20 other masks, which can do anything from making you move faster, letting you check mailboxes, or making people cry. If you collect all 20 masks, not only will they help you with hard puzzles, but you can get a 4th transformation mask called the Fierce Diety's mask. This mask turns you into a super-character that can fire magic bolts out of his sword. This may not sound like it would be worth collecting all the masks, especially since you can only use this character in boss battles, but he can mean the difference between beating the game and getting a game over at the final boss. Believe me, it is really helpful when all you have to do is press Z and fire a few magic bolts, instead of dodging and getting a strike in every few minutes after losing half your life.
The temples in this game are also very fun. In one of them, you even have to turn the temple upside down and explore the ceilings to beat it. Also, if you collect the 15 faeries in each temple, and bring them to the great fairy cave near there, you will get a special prize.
Also, there is a club you join in this game called The Bombers, who try to make people happy. When you join, you get the Bombers Notebook which has space for 20 people you meet throughout the game. When you meet one of them, their face appears in your notebook, with space next to it. That space shows your interactions with that character. All the characters you meet need something to make them happy, or you need to use them somehow in your quest. When you do the right thing, that will be indicated in your Notebook, and you will get a prize of usually a heart piece or a mask. Some quests are so hard you have to go back in time a few times to finish them.
The Bad
Pretty much the only bad thing about this game is that it is much shorter than the Ocarina of Time. While OoT had 3 temples as a kid, 5 as an adult, and 1 more where the final boss lived, this game only has 4. Also, it is very hard to collect all 15 faeries in a temple, because you have to find them all, get to them all, find the Great Fairy cave, and give them the faeries all within three days.
The Time
On of the biggest parts of this game is the time. In this game, you are in a world where the moon is on a kamikazee attack to destroy the planet. If you haven't gotten your ocarina within three days, you're a goner. You might think three days doesnt sound too bad, but an hour there is about a minute here. Once you get your ocarina back though, you can keep on going back to the beginning o day 1. So now it sounds easy. Get near the end, then go back. There's only one catch. When you go back, you lose almost everything. People don't remember you, all your replenishable items like bombs are gone, and so are all you rupees you don't have in the bank. Also, you lose everything you've done in that temple. In fact, the only things you keep are masks, rupees in the bank, and items such as your sword, which you only have one of. Now it may sound very hard, but it's not as hard as you would think. After a little while, you can learn songs that can transport you to the next day, or songs that can slow down time by over half, giving you around 2 or 3 minutes per hour.
Personally, I think the effect of time is an interesting twist during the beginning to add some challenge, but I think it kind of makes the game a little less fun in the hard parts, after you have to keep on doing the same things over again.
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