As most of you already know, a couple of weeks ago Nintendo added The Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask as the Virtual Console's 300th game. I played Ocarina of Time on the N64 and loved it, but passed up Majoras Mask because it looked strange. But as it arrived on Virtual Console for only $10, and me being a big Zelda fan I couldnt resist and bought it. This happened not too long ago, and now that i've beat the game I've realized something: passing it up was a BIG mistake.
What you are looking at my friends, is a masterpiece. From the start I was a bit nervous about the whole time thing, but I realized what incredible things it actually did. The way Majoras Mask made characters just not seem so robotic unlike Ocarina of Time was pretty much all do the factor of time. People were at certain places at certain times and developed depending on what you did the day before or what not.
When I first realized this I was very impressed, but one thing that got me thinking was how different the game was compared to any other Zelda game. For one thing this is truly the one Zelda game where Link simply cant save everyone. He could save the Gorons and then return to day one to find that everything had been undone was very weird for not only Zelda, and game in general. Also, the game was pretty dark. With out going into spoilers let me just show you this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73hH8fx4hEg&feature=related
Overall, Majoras Mask adds up to a very epic experience. Not my favorite Zelda game but definetely on of them. In short : best $10 spent ever.
-Bob Cheeseball