The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: Difference between revisions

* [[Big Bulky Bomb]]: The Powder Keg.

* [[BFS]]: Three: The Great Fairy Sword, which is almost as long as Link is tall; the Helix Sword (Fierce Deity's sword); and Odolwa's sword.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Much of the game has a kind of mournful, elegiac feel, from the "final hour" music to the fates of several important characters. (A lot of them wind up dead or not altogether happy, no matter how many sidequests you finish.) The owl remarks that Termina might just be destined to pass away.

* [[Blade Below the Shoulder]]: Zora Link's armfins are not just for swimming; they also function as sword, shield, ''and'' boomerangs.

* [[Clock Tower]]: The centerpiece of Clock Town, naturally.

* [[Colony Drop]]: What the Skull Kid does with Majora's Mask. When you confront him on top of the clock tower, he causes it to drop ''faster'' (time limit: five minutes), and taunts you with "if it's something that can be stopped, just try to stop it!"

* [[Combat Tentacles]]: {{spoiler|Majora's Wrath.}}

* [[Comic Book Adaptation]]: The manga by Akira Himekawa, which puts the Skull Kid in a more sympathetic light and also includes a bonus story illustrating the creation of the eponymous mask, but cuts out most of Ikana Canyon to focus on Anju and Kafei.

* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]:

** When Sakon steals the bomb bag, try shooting an arrow at him.<ref>Players who have not obtained the Blast Mask or who intend to do any segment of the Anju/Kafei sidequest past that point are discouraged from attempting this.</ref>

** Half the fun of the game is to find the many hidden scenes that only occur at certain times (usually on the Final Day) when you have done certain things, or are wearing certain masks.

** Go into the Pirate captain's quarters wearing the Stone Mask. Instead of being invisible like you normally would be, you're caught, with the pirates wondering how some kid in a funny mask got all the way up here.

* [[Eternal Engine]]: Great Bay Temple, a maze of pipelines, sluices, valves, and [[Down the Drain|lots and lots of water]].

* [[Everythings Better With Bunnies]]: The Bunny Hood is one of the most useful masks in the game, allowing you to run twice as fast. Link also looks completely adorable when wearing it.

* [[Evil Tower of Ominousness]]: The Stone Tower to some extent, even though it's not the [[Big Bad]]'s base of operations. It's so tall it can be seen from parts of Termina that are nowhere near it (e.g. from the Goron village or from just outside Clock Town's east gate). To get to the dungeon proper you have to pass through two stone monster faces, the first of which is at the bottom of the tower and the second of which is a giant one at the top with flaming eyes. The curse placed on the dead kingdom of Ikana emanates from this tower. It's not clear who built it and it's covered in strange symbols and iconography, some of which seems to reference the Triforce, which has led to much [[Epileptic Trees|speculation]] from fans.

* [[Expy]]:

{{quote| "Eesh. You frighten me. I keep special hours for folks like you. Try comin' back at half past ''never''."}}

** Also,the Bombers don't want "NO SCRUBS!" This particular prejudice is caused by their previous experience with the Skull Kid.

** Also, in Majora's Mask, Gorons cannot swim due to their stonelike weight. If you drop into water while wearing the Goron Mask, instant [[Super Drowning Skills]] game over.

* [[Fast Forward Mechanic]]: Not only is there a song to skip ahead ("Song of Double Time"), but also to slow it down ("Inverted Song of Time") and reset time ("Song of Time"), which also doubles as the way to save your game.

* [[A Father to His Men]]: Captain Skull Keeta. While he's never seen directly interacting with the Stalchildren, he's implied to be this by dialogue.

* [[Fetch Quest]]: The arduously long Anju and Kafei quest, which you have to do at least twice in order to get [[Hundred Percent Completion]].

* [[For Doom the Bell Tolls]]: The clocktower tolls regularly to signal when it is night and day, but gets more unsettling the closer the moon gets. It doesn't stop chiming once midnight hits on the Last Day, constantly reminding you that, yeah, better get to that clock tower.

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* [[Idiot Ball]]: If you go to Ikana Canyon and talk to Sakon, the notorious thief, he'll comment on how nice your sword is and ask if he can have a look. If you say "yes"... <ref>Tatl scares him off before he can get ahold of it. It's still a dumb move though.</ref> A nasty trick on players who are used to the frequent [[But Thou Must]] requests of most people in the Zelda games.

* [[Implausible Synchrony]]: Every clock in town states the same time. Granted, this is ''Clock Town''. If there's one thing you could expect them to have down to an art form...

* [[In Universe Game Clock]]: You have 72 hours to stop that moon from falling. You can slow down the clock or reset it to the top again, but beyond that it continues ticking relentlessly.

* [[Invincible Hero]]: Consider this: if Link plays the Song of Time, he returns to the first day. If the third day comes and goes, [[Colony Drop|the Moon destroys the world...]] [[Death Is Cheap|and then Link returns to the first day.]] This is ''[[Averted Trope|not]]'' [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]; there is dialog, and the game continues as normal (although you lose anything new since the last time you saved). Even though it includes [[The End of the World As We Know It|the destruction of the world]], this time loop is safe. In other words, there is no way for Link to fail; the only way out of the loop is to win the game.

* [[Limited Special Collectors Ultimate Edition]]:

** It has a "Collector’s Edition" in America that came with a cartridge that had a holografic label.

* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]: This is what happens if you let time run out.

* [[Painful Transformation]]: See [[Transformation Trauma]].

** The Captain's Hat to Stalchildren. Despite the fact that Keeta was over 10 feet tall, none of the Stalchildren figure out the difference. {{spoiler|Ikana isn't fooled. Eventually.}}

** Many other masks have similar effects, such as the Gibdo and Garo masks. Even with the three transformation masks, the form Link takes doesn't look much like the person he's impersonating, yet everyone is fooled.

* [[Timed Mission]]: Aside from a few timed mini-games and sidequests (like recovering Kafei's stolen Sun Mask), when you first arrive in Clock Town, the Skull Kid still has your ocarina and you have only three days to get it back before the moon comes crashing down.

* [[Time Travel]]: See [[Groundhog Day Loop]]. Link can also play the song of Double Time to immediately skip to the next sunrise/sunset time (contrary to its name, it doesn't really speed up time, just skips it).

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Ice Arrows in ''Ocarina of Time'' had minimal uses since they only froze enemies, getting them was highly difficult, and you couldn't get them until you had pretty much finished the game. This time around they're a dungeon treasure, and their uses include freezing water to stop its flow, freezing enemies to provide blocks to push around, and creating platforms of ice in water to form a path.

* [[Transformation Trauma]]: When you put on a transformation mask, Link looks up with an extremely pained expression and ''screams''. Thanks for the pleasant dreams, Nintendo.

* [[Unstoppable Mailman]]: [[Deconstructed]] when the postman is forced (by his own discipline) to stick to his schedule, even with all of Clock Town evacuated and the end of the world nigh.

* [[Updated Rerelease]]: After Ocarina was released on the 3DS, the devs said that if enough fans asked, they would do this game as well. That spawned [[Shout Out|Operation Moonfall]], a massive campaign to get ''Majora's Mask'' remade for the 3DS as well.

** Just knowing that every NPC you come across is going to die in three days if you fail is a pretty huge motivator to get the job done fast -- especially if you fail to get your Ocarina back the first time and have to witness the moon crashing down and obliterating ''everything''.

*** Not only is every NPC doomed to die in 3 days but many of them are cursed on top of it, and so is the very land they walk on in some cases. Or in the case of Woodfall Swamp and Great Bay, the water is cursed. Some have even more agony thrown on top of their lives. Kafei has his marriage nearly ruined in addition to being made a child. Skull Kid ran into Koume, a woman who is centuries old, in Woodfall Forest and decided to nearly cripple her. Skull Kid was suffering from a sick case of [[Super Dickery]], wasn't he?

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