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Legend of Zelda - Majora's Mask
Release Date: October 26, 2000
Platform: Nintendo 64
Review: Nintendo really packed this game
with original ideas. It is a very strange game, especially the
idea of Link changing into a Goron, Zora, and other races.
The game starts off with a slightly confusing taste, but
gradually you find out what's going on. This game has very little
focus on Zelda legends, and as a matter of fact, Zelda only
appears once in the game. However it still is a very good game.
It also has a hologram thing on the gold cartridge which
is pretty cool.
The game takes place in a land
called Termina. The center town in Termina is Clock Town; its
a very nice town and the people are nice too. However everybody
is scared that the moon is going to fall, and many people
are fleeing town. The main focus of the game is collecting masks,
and although it may sound tedious, finding them is actually
pretty fun; most of them anyway. For example, to obtain the Wedding
Mask, you have to do do something in all three days, and still
you can run out of time pretty easily; that one is really
fun to get.
Probably the thing that separates
this most from previous games is that people change their actions
and live their life with time; at times you can get deeply
involved with people's lives. For example, there is this
one Goron traveler who reserved a room in the Clock Town hotel,
it is possible for you to go in there and take his room,
leaving the poor Goron to sleep outside in the rain. This dynamic
sociality is most common in Clock Town. Obviously, because
it is the central town, there are many people from all over living
there.
This is the second game for
the N64 to require the Expansion Pack memory (the first game was
Donkey Kong 64). It has quite noticeable higher graphical
detail than previous counterpart, Ocarina of Time. There
seems to be a lot more on the screen at once. Characters still
look the same, and I believe lighting is the same as well.
The music is pretty good,
nothing special but it's not bad. Although the music in the temple
in Southern Swamp is very annoying after awhile with that
lady yelling in the background; the song does fit okay, but there
is much better fitting music out there. The main theme music,
which is the music in Clock Town, is very good. But it is
a bit eccentric that everyone in Clock Town is scared to death
of the moon falling, yet the music is so peaceful, but than
I guess you can't be on the edge of your seat for the entire game.
Although this game doesn't
stick right to the traditional Zelda design, it is still a very
good game.
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