Hum.. After reading these comments I will have to give this game a try. I have played all other console Zelda games (Excluding MM and the CD-i games) and Zelda 2 has been my favorite due to it's dark tone (No hate mail please, I know most people reject this game.)

I had though that the big N was just doing a rush job sequel to OoT, but it sounds like a lot went into this game. I hope a definitive version comes to the VC, with a steady frame rate and glitch free. Then again even if it isn't any better than the release on the GC I will pick it up.

Thanks for helping me see the light.

MM is my favorite Zelda too, very original and entertaining, with varied gameplay with some of the masks. I find it funny that in my favorite Zelda Miyamoto wasn't involved...

proably my favorite Zelda game, next to Windwaker.

I'm glad to see so many of you like Majora's Mask. It's easily my favorite in the series for many reasons, but a large part of it is the sense that not only is there an entire world of people out there, but that all of them are going to live their lives, whether you interfere with them or not. It's a wonderful feeling that I've never gotten from any game before or since.

And while I wouldn't say the game is completely depressing, it certainly has a lot of subtle downers. Most of them have already been mentioned, but my favorites include how even at the end of the game no one else knows that the Goron chieftain or the Zora guitar player have died, and their friends and families continue to wait in vain for their return. Another one is the fact that if you help the bomb shop family, you've forever screwed Anju. But my favorite moment is how Anju reacts if you fail to beat the bandit's trap at the last day: no anger, no tears, just complete and total resignation and a wish to be left alone to await the end of the world.

Man, this game's awesome.

@sc9 Was it really that hard to tell I was joking, I mean, I liked Majoras Mask and I will say yes it's a great Zelda but come on! Clearly Hyrule and Termania (I believe) were two totally different places, Hyrule was more about Ganon and his arch on shaping the world for him only to be foiled by his rival in his ageless battle of good and evil.

Now heres the key difference, Majoras Mask dealt with Link saving the world that can't be saved, in fact he fails every time up to the last time when you finally defeat Majora, the world is filled with misery sure, and the characters most definetly feel much more 'real' that many 'deep' games to date, in fact you'd be hard pressed to find a game up to 2008 that could rival the depth of Majoras Mask but that's just what Nintendo was aiming for, which they didn't for OoT.

In more elaborate words: Majora's Mask is post apocolyptic adventure while OoT is to prevent the apocolypse.

You can argue that the moon hitting the planet would of been apocolyptic I'd agure that was simply the finale, the period on a world that already ended.

OoT was still a better Adventure game - but that's my opinion.

Of course, but I was disagreeing on how you said it wasn't even a zelda game. Which you just admitted you were joking so no big deal anymore.

Guess what, now I'm playing Majora's Mask again ^_^

I always thought of MM as preventing the apocalypse, while OoT was more or less after the "apocalypse" when you turn into an adult and see the entire castle town destroyed and the world in chaos.

How do you see MM as post-apocalyptic?

@noname2200: How were the bomb store owners and Anju linked in that helping the former would screw the latter again?! It's been awhile, so my memory's a bit foggy on that one.

If you take the bomb bag from Sakon, then he doesn't go to the munney shop. That's why you can't do both in the same time cycle.