Surprisingly Spacious
Added 2023-05-09 04:21:45 +0000 UTCYes, I’m that Zelda fan whose personality is liking all the weird ones. Majora’s Mask is right up there on the weirdness scale with Link’s Awakening in terms of taking elements of a familiar setting and twisting them. (LA was originally going to just be a portable Link to the Past before the devs were allowed to go nuts.) MM eschews LA’s whimsy for utter bleakness. A grimacing moon lurches closer to the earth as Link assumes the forms of fallen members of the various races he met in Ocarina of Time.
The game is a series of increasingly bizarre left turns, and then it jerks the wheel and takes a hard up once you enter the moon. I was expecting a creepy dungeon or some foreboding hellscape. But it’s a serene field with a singe tree in the center. Masked children frolic around it. There’s probably a three hour video essay on YouTube explaining what the tree represents. I don’t want to know. The mystery, to me, is the point.
