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Legend of Zelda - Majora's Mask (N64) |
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27.02.01 (94 review reads) |
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Advantages: Faultless mechanics, gripping fights and puzzles, about 50 hours of gameplay
Disadvantages: similar to original, no fishing game! addictive!!!
‘Zelda 2 - Majora’s Mask’ is an excellent game, following perfectly on from the tremendously detailed and excellently put together ‘Ocarina of Time’ from the gaming gods themselves, Nintendo. The series was written by Japanese Shigeru Miyamoto and have become big hits all over the globe, not so much the TV series but definitely the games.
It is a worthy sequel to an N64 title that the most of the world agrees is the greatest video game ever produced, finished in half the time, and without the superb architect that worked on Ocarina of Time. This was rather easy for the team at Nintendo. From the very first moment, the game glows with that bedazzling magic, polished beautifully - from the swing of Link’s sword to the splashes of rainwater below his feet – excellent. A five-minute quick play on the game will soon turn into four or five hours of addictive shear brilliance and jaw-dropping playability! However, it doesn’t quite live up to the extensive detailed graphics and lifespan of the original, but it comes closer than anybody would have thought.
As you work towards halting the moon from plummeting into Clock Town and its inhabitants (with quite a nasty face, I may add), is a rather excellently thought out storyline and actually knocks spots off Ocarina of Time’s. Majora’s mask tells a gripping tale of loss, regret and heartbreak, mothers reunited with lost sons, and guards watching the town as they watch the moon slowly descending towards them. (Bring it on you pansy moon!)
The bulk of the game, though, is even more impressive. The camera, the controls, the individually unique idea of not having a jump button – the mechanics are so flawlessly handled to be almost unnoticeable. This is actually expected from being the sequel to such a perfect game, but what is not expected is that Majora’s Mask to be bloated with action and full of surprises as the original H
yrule. With breathtaking new dungeons and puzzles that need solving, and all this has to be done before the moon belts you on the head and your dead, of course.
There are four dungeons, situated North, South, East and West of Clock Town, which is surrounded by Majora’s Mask’s version of Hyrule field, Termina Field. And what’s more, you can evolve into species from the original masterpiece, including a Goron, a Zora and a Deku Scrub (all with their own unique musical instrument as opposed to the ocarina), all by looking through different masks! A Deku Scrub man – sweet! The entire game is based around different masks, all with their own different functions that allow link to do weird and wonderful, unreal tricks, that without, parts of the game and progression to saving Clock Town from the moon, would be impossible.
The evil bad dude in the game is a little scrubby skull kid from the forest, who, after stealing a rather important mask (Majora’s Mask) that has some ancient, tribal, magical powers from the owner of the happy mask shop, has decided to aid the moon into bailing out in Clock Town and making poor Link’s life a misery, and not to mention separating the two weedy little fairies who are brother and sister. One of these iddy fairies replaces Navi from the original adventure.
This is a really cool game, so if you’ve got an N64, go out and buy it. If you don’t have an N64, go out and buy one, as well as the game, ok?
Cheers for reading.
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