Majoras Mask

- When people ask my fave game the answer of 'Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time' is always followed with the question did you play Majoras Mask? To which I would sigh and say no. This went on for 14 years until last year when I contacted a local retro shop and they had Majoras Mask in on that day so I got it, though due to TV issues I've only really had a good go of it in the last week or so.

- This is being played on my 64 I don't have 3DS version.

- The game play was easy for me to pick up as it's 100% Ocarina Of Time so that was a plus for me and as the people in Termina are the same as Hyrule it's fun for me and the sister to try remember where they were in Hyrule eg a man in the ranch appears in Kakariko Village and the Lost Woods on Ocarina also the these two witches you help in the Swamp are a dungeon boss on Ocarina (Spirit Temple if I remember right).

- One major difference between OoT and MM is that Majoras is timed in that you have 3 days (in game time) to save Termina from the moon, to save the game you must play The Song Of Time and go back to day 1 though everything resets. The timed nature of the game initially annoyed me but i've grown to bear it, on OoT you had to get Medallions but here it's masks, though I don't think all 24 are needed I'm still going to try for them, they enable you to do different things though only 3 truly change you - Deku, Goron and Zora, but some are needed for progression as you can't get into Ikana without winning the mask needed via horse race.

- The first Temple/Dungeon/whatever floats your boat is fairly easy which was a given given it's the initial one but the second (Snowhead Temple) was annoying in terms of traversing it but I found the boss (Goht) annoying but also quite fun to do and I've saved Zora Eggs which enabled me to learn a new song which I think grants me access to the next temple but I'm not doing that yet as I get flashbacks to the Water Temple of OoT, also I don't intend to do the Zora Eggs again as I hate water fights and had to beat these deep sea pythons to save three of the eggs also the  other four are around Gerudo Fortress which I walked around with the Stone Mask which makes you essentially invisible however I wouldn't like to do that are without the mask.

- Away from the main story of the Temples as noted earlier you get masks all via different means and the biggest one I've found to do is this Anju/Kafei task from which I have three masks (Kafei/Keaton/Couples) and yet still Anju is not ticked off in my note book, what does the woman want?!

- Overall I've enjoyed it so far but i'm still not sure whether I prefer it to Ocarina BUT the fact that I can't declare OoT a definite winner is a testament to Majoras Mask, the 14 year wait was worth it.

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- Got a couple more masks last night but I have the feeling that I should progress more within the game so onto the next temple.

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- I am NEVER doing the Great Bay Temple again not even for £1,000,000. I've always thought Water Temple from OoT was worst Zelda dungeon but this surpasses it, in Water Temple you have to lower and raise the Water levels but the boss is relatively easy and in Great Bay Temple you change the current of the water which was annoying as I couldn't find the last one however after all this I faced what is my worst ever boss - Gyorg, a fish thing that does major damage, I needed to use two red fairies to survive, though being an animal lover I did feel bad for killing a fish, I am never doing this again!

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- Took a break for a bit as I usually do, I start things then half way through get bored hence why I have a bunch of reviews written but not typed up, but I was in the mood for this and so headed for the Stone Tower, oh wait no I didn't I had to go through the well giving gibdo's various items and ended with Mirror Shield, I learnt the Song Of Storms somewhere aswell, I honestly can't remember where though, after bringing water back to the valley I healed a father and got the Gibdo mask then I headed for Stone Tower.

- Did the first part of the tower after spending about two hours getting up to it, then you have to go outside and flip the tower by hitting a switch with the light arrows which are earned by beating a mini-boss, it may of been a Wizzrobe i can't remember. There's a really annoying enemy named Death Amos or something like that which stopped me hitting a switch for a while then when I did it I realised I should of just used the stone mask, after going back to the opening area by accident and thus having to walk around again I got to the boss, special mention for the guy guarding the boss key as he did some real damage, the boss was two worm like things named TwinMold who you beat by hitting the head or tail of both, I gained the Giants Mask in the temple and this is the only place you can wear it.

- The four temples are done and now I'm heading for the clock tower, or at least I would be but I have three masks missing.

- All Night Mask is now mine just missing one as I believe the other is obtained by getting all the others. Oh Mask Where (and what) Are Thou?!

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- Turns out the mask I needed was one I knew from OoT as it was The Mask Of Truth, read online, yes I broke my cardinal rule, and it said get all the golden spiders in the house, I thought paaaaarp liars I did that and didn't get a mask then realised there is two such houses on the game, got it now.

- To paraphrase The Police I am walking in the moon. Had to find four kids after they asked for my masks, at least they were polite robbers, found the Goron one really annoying as I fell off the track a lot. Then onto Majoras Mask itself. Now this is where the importance of the masks becomes apparent. I had all masks to give away leaving me with none and then the kid wearing Majoras Mask gave me The Fierce Deity mask, which really helps, without all masks I couldn't of given enough away to the kids and thus no mask for the boss.

- Fierce Deity mask meant I could damage Majoras Mask as I pleased and breezed through the final bosses 3 stages even the mother said 'was that it after all the other hard bosses' I doubt I would've beat it in one go without that mask but it did make the final boss to easy, we get a little cut scene, not as good as OoT's to end the game .... well actually I thought it would of deleted my profile thus making me start again but it just went back to Day 1 and I had all 24 masks. Some of the space in my item list are empty  so i've missed something also I couldn't do a certain fight by Ikana Canyon as it said I didn't have enough health, first though Ima whip the bosses with my newest mask and get the frog chorus reunited.