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SCREWATTACK MAGAZINE - NOVEMBER 2010
X goes in depth: Majora’s Mask, Most fucked up game Ever? By g1 GameXmasteR
Oh Hai g1s, how’s your sex life, ha? #ObviousTheRoomRefference Wait.. this isn’t twitter... *Ahem* Welcome, to my first X goes in depth blog. Not to be confused with the other one I’m running in the institute. That, I’ll update it later. For now, here’s my series’ of Serious Goddamn Business about gaming in general. Now, today’s subject is the hit game made by Nintendo for the N64 console. The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, one of the most debated games in the series’.
quests to be completed (Although, getting all masks and Oni Link is quite a lot of work and good replay value). But to me and all the over thinkers around the Internet, this game is one thing: Opinions regarding this game are quite diverse. Some like it as a FUCKED.UP. darker twist to the plot and development of the characters, the I mean it. When you first play the way they act, and a new Multi- game, It’s not that bad, but after versal look at the Zelda univer- reading into the lines of FUBARse that, sadly, never worked out ness. Like, there’s SO MUCH wrong (Although, Crisis on Infinite Ninten- with this game, CreepyPasta Aside. do Earths would be pretty fucking But let’s get into detail shall we? bad ass), and also the new moral dilemma of whether or not you First off, what’s the premise of the should help the people in distress, game? Link going on a quest to knowing that in the end, it won’t find Navi who left him at the end make a difference, and the philoso- of OoT. Pretty straightforward, nophical concept and idea of whether thing wrong, but the first thing that or not there’s a written fate, and if happens, THE VERY FIRST THING we can alter it. Others describe the THAT HAPPENS IN THE GAME is game as “Broken” or “Too short”, that link’s ocarina gets stolen and since it only contains 4 main dun- he goes to a parallel universe to do geons, and a mild variety of side something completely unrelated
to the quest at hand. Yep, that’s pretty retarded. But we’re forgetting one little detail. Let’s go back to OoT for a moment and recall a certain line of dialog: “everyone who ventures into the forest without a forest becomes stalfos...” And now to the deku tree sprout’s words: “you’re not a kokiri, you’re a hyllian!” Could this be any more self ex-