I don't have a lot to add but MM is a masterpiece and it will always be my favorite if I had to pick one. I love OOT and WW but neither come close to the creativity of MM. Time crunch and limitations worked out very well for it. Best Link, best abilities and items, coolest environments, weirdest enemies (in a good way), best written NPCs and dialogue of any Nintendo game (though I'll admit I haven't played Mother 3 nor gotten far in 2 so I don't have those as a reference), and overall just so standout and memorable. Perfect example of a same engine sequel done right.

>>1138086 I started playing it randomized seriously for the first time because of all the new options and it's breathed a lot of life back into the game for me. Even learning the glitches is fun.

>>1138086 It's a shame no Zelda game since has managed to capture the same atmosphere. I still remember first playing it as a kid and being freaked by some of the details in the game.

>>1138386 >Time crunch and limitations worked out very well for it. This is also what's hurting modern day Zelda, too much dev time means a long wait for an otherwise underwhelming title. Wind Waker, Twilight Princess and even Skyward Sword should have had sequel games, and while I do love Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks especially to death, they would have flourished better on a console, using Wind Waker's exact engine. I don't care how stressed out Aonuma or whoever was developing MM, it's clear they had to think about what they were adding with such a short deadline and it worked. Those same conditions may spark some new life in the dev team today.

I lost my data around Ikana and didn't feel like restarting. it was cool though

My favourite game of all time. Playing this on a rainy night in with my cousin in our grandma's old house was KINO and SOULFULL

>>1140357 The Gorman Brothers chasing after Cremia's milk delivery definitely would feel out of place in any other Zelda game. Ditto for the Flatwoods Monsters that want to abduct the cows.

How do I play it? On Gamecube or 3ds? I've read emulating N64 is still tricky to this day. Is there a decompiled version for PC that's just download and play without hackering github nonsense?

>>1147522 Majora's Mask was 100% decompiled a year ago, dude. The game can natively run on pc now. Google "ship of harkinian majora's mask" and you'll find videos about it.

>>1147646 Thanks man, I didn't know a decomp was released this recently. I tried a SM64 decomp but it wouldn't work.

>>1144763 Based memories. God I miss my grandma

Majora's Mask was one of the most unique games at the time and honestly still to this day. I can't really think of any game like it. The level of tragedy and despair. When you solve everyone's problems only to undo all of that just so you can save them and still have what you could've done haunt your mind. Its a really strange experience that most of the OOT retards can't really ever capture and I respect it for that.

>>1147766 The NPC schedules really made the world feel more alive than any other game back then. I was so invested in saving that town

>>1147823 MM is really definition of small world, detailed environment.

It's fun being pretentious. It's fun because in order to get there you have to think relatively highly of yourself, and then think that there's some profundity, some insight into your own perception that others don't also see. it's fun because, even if you're a brainlet, it makes you feel smart to notice and touch upon a work's themes and messaging, to use your limited brain power to connect dots and, through inference and pontification, posit theories about why and how and what and etc. regarding any given work. It's something of a problem, when every asshole under the sun gets to have an opinion. It dilutes discourse, and I'm saying this as someone who is far from a genius. I love Majora's Mask but this sort of game tends to attract those types of people, the pretentious hipster fuckwards who think they're smart because they can recite Socrates and Kant and Beauregard and Marx and whatever other big brained historical figure they can find to make themselves seem smart by proxy.

There's a lot of Tim Burton and Jim Henson influences in this game. I'd like to see a MM movie scored by prime Danny Elfman.

Please keep your bait at 4chan where it belongs. Forbid an imageboard has a genuine discussion about things.

I can still remember the first time running around Clock Town on the 3rd night. Seeing the place become a ghost town with Link pretty much the only one left and having that sense of unease as the earthquakes become more frequent and the sky becomes an ominous red. Then the countdown timer begins with the music starting to play and that feeling of time is running out as I'm panicking trying to figure out what to do. I don't think I've ever played another game that's made me feel like that. Majora's Mask really has a unique atmosphere that I can't really compare to anything else. Shame we'll probably never get anything like it again.

>>1151013 4chuds is down anon. You gotta wait till the jannies and hiro bring it back up

>>1151179 I know that, doesn't mean you need to bring that bullshit here.

Who's your favorite NPC?

>>1152480 I love discount Ruto

I love Majora's Mask for a variety of reasons I can't exactly narrow down. It's fun, creative, pushes the boundary of the Zelda formula and its system's limitations, memorable, but most importantly sort of embodies the overzealous "edge" a lot of games in the 90's-00's had. Probably explains why I like Twilight Princess more than most other people too. >>1152480 Deku Princess

Something about Majora's Mask feels more 'European' than other games in the series, I don't know if it's the carnival aspect of it or something else entirely.

>>1153295 Fish women are so good

It's a poetic masterpiece that recreates feelings of grief, despair, and existential loss better than not only any other game, but most other works of art. It's to video games what The Divine Comedy is to literature, and I don't care what anyone thinks, but I hold them as equals in quality.

>>1155773 I like that there were two bodies of water named after Lulu and Mikau in BotW/TotK.

I just think it’s funny that Goron Link looks like a Pacific Islander.