0:46 I personally got scared when she put the mask, not a single move, the mask just pops up there, now we know how the people would react to Link putting the masks on, it's totally unexpected haha
@@Nathidraws its eyes are soulless as his soul is trapped in a new body. The weight of the soul made him shrink back to a small child thanks to Horror kid stealing the soul with the mask. (Not cannon)
@@Nathidraws I think it's supposed to represent a hole, you know, like those mask that have circular holes for you to see despite where they are placed, but adding an actual hole would mean a lot more polygons for the model
I miss the deku scrubs. You see Zora’s and Goron’s pretty often, but dekus often get shafted when it comes to the races in each game. They’ve basically been replaced by Koroks.
@@wintersong2266 Octorocks started out as, and have mostly stayed land creatures. They only started becoming aquatic in the 3D Zeldas. I know the Koroks evolved from the Kokiri lore-wise, but I'm still certain that they replaced Dekus. Maybe the Kokiri and Deku got combined into a single species?
Thanks to Majora's Mask I've been thinking a lot about all that potential and details that they have. I mean, Termina is some kind of Majora's creation, and in that weird dimension there's a palace and even a school for Scrubs!? They are an intelligent race that seem to be very misunderstood. I'm surprised how they didn't appear in BOTW, especially since it would be great to have Business Scrub over there.
@right_in_the_tockles "why is the kafei questline so cryptic" it's not "why is the sun's mask conveyer belt so punishing" it's not if you aren't stupid
Ive played this game over 20 times since I was a child and even to this day there are still interactions i never knew about. The amount of detail that went in to this game is why it is my all time favorite.
When Anju says "I need to be happier, don't I?" with that look on her face...that hits a little too hard, man. When you're going through something tough and it's out of your control--even though it wasn't really your fault and you want to try and fix it, and nothing is exactly going the way you hoped--telling yourself that you 'need to be happy' is kind of like verbally slapping yourself in the face. At least, that's from my perspective. She shouldn't be forcing herself to feel 'happy.' She has that right to feel sad and somewhat defeated (until Link helps) because of what she's been through. This is one reason I adore this game. Because of the little details like this that leave an impact.
@@C_long I'm so sorry that you are! Please, take your time with your emotions, and don't force yourself to feel anything that doesn't feel right in the moment. Process as much as you need to. But don't try to fix everything, and just take things day by day. Find the good in the little things. In time, things will get better, and you may not notice it at first. But you'll get there, I promise. I went through a situation that I shouldn't have blamed myself for and was in no way my fault, but I guilted myself thinking I did something horrible for many months. I blamed myself for losing a 'friend.' I thought it was something I said or did. It wasn't. It was because of that 'friend's' hidden selfish desires that made them decide to toss me aside like I meant nothing after months of 'friendship.' Yes, the pangs of those days long gone still hit me once in a blue. But it's gotten so much better. And I know it will get better way more as I grow and evolve.
@@spring_drain18 it's definitely been a day by day process but like you mentioned things do and will get better I have a couple interviews coming up for good paying jobs which has me very hopeful things are starting to change you can't begin to imagine how much your kindness means to me it makes me feel like I'm not alone when it comes to past experiences and that people out there do care even if it's a random person on a majoras mask video 😂
@@C_long Hey, random acts of kindness have no limit and come in so many forms and it's the best when it's unexpected. I'm happy that my comment can be a sign of hope for you during a trying time in your life! And I wish you all the good luck and vibes for your interviews, it's definitely a tough market out there right now! But you got this. Just don't sell yourself short! I just recently got a wonderful new job myself that I couldn't be more grateful for. It can definitely be a great turning point in life, giving that huge boost that life is turning around for the better. Something will definitely work out!
they ask you how you are, and you just have to say that you're fine, when you're not really fine, but you just can't get into it because they would never understand
To this day I remember how amazed I was when Anju got on that walk on the second day. NPC's having a schedule? Stuff happens without me as the player actively trigger it? The concept was crazy to me. I think Majora's mask might have been the first game to actually do this beyond the extremely basic day and night cycle. Hell a three day cycle like this is still unheard of.
It's more saddening to realize she's basically crying outside of the place of residence, her fiancée, turned child, is currently living at. Being so close, yet so far apart, unaware and basically crying in the rain... They didn't need to hit us this hard...
I totally agree. In this scene I used to ring the bell just to see Kafei come out. I always yelled at him to come to Anju and tell her what happened :(
Two thing to notice on this scene: - Anju is putting a brave face with Deku Link as everyone in Clock Town seem to think of him as a small child (younger thsn Link), so she doesn't want to burden him. - Anju has a Kafei Mask too. Of course she is also looking for him.
Whenever discussion of whether Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask is the better game, I point to both games' biggest side quests. In OoT, you trade items until you get a sword. In MM, you save a marriage. You get a greater extrinsic reward for the former, but the intrinsic reward for the later is so substantial that it warms my heart every time I do it. Anju and Kafei are probably the best side characters in Zelda history. Anju in particular has so much to her. She feels so real.
And then you reset the time and it is now irrelevant... :/ Actually, you can still save their marriage and get to the moon at the end of the game in time, right?
This game was deep for its time. As a kid, I never really took into consideration how dark and depressing some things could be in this game, until I got older. 20 years later, this is still one of my favorite video games of all time.
Skull kid is a little scatter brain even before the influence of the mask. I think it would have taken a very long time for him to lock away the giants, poison the swamp, freeze the mountains, polute the water temple and curse the stone tower. Among with all the other random minor mischief he causes around termina. Probably had been going on for longer than a month. It's kind of hard to remember what was already messed up before the mask gained influence over the land. A lot of the side quests problems had already been going on long before skull kid rose to power.
I find it interesting that she says 1 month. That means when link chased the skull kid somehow between him getting out from chasing him and getting into clock Town there's a weird time discrepancy. It's like weird time shenanigans. Like skull kid ran around Termina for at least a month causing havoc with majoras mask. Somehow skull kid got out from under the clock tower way sooner than link even though it only seemed like a few minutes chasing after him. It's a cool detail imo
IIUC skullkid stole the mask from the mask guy, and then started to louse up Termina a good while prior to his bumping into link. Looting link and shooing away Epona are just the latest in the long line of messes he's made.
@@happmacdonald Oh yeah! I suppose I thought it was just 3 days bc thats when the salesman shows up but he could have just been watching the chaos unfold this whole time and only said something when he saw link
he met Tatl and the other one in Termina field before he had the mask, a long time passed after that and then he was outside of Termina and encountered link
Maybe I'm misremembering, but I recall that if you start this sidequest like normal, but never meet her in the kitchen at night, she'll still come here the following day. However, she will instead be very cold towards Link for missing the meeting with a different dialogue text altogether. Any way one can check?
night 2, at 9:30 in the stock pot inn, there is a cutscene. the damaged wall paper in your room lets you spy on a conversation between anju and her mother. anju's mother thinks kafie ran off to be in a relationship with cremia quotes in game romani night 2 if you saved the cows, if you are wearing kafeis mask "romania knows... my sister, cremia has someone in town she likes... but that person will get married the day after the carnival" anjus mom in that cutscene mentioned above "I wonder if kafei is really at cremia's place... if kafei is there, your mother will give him a good smack" but then anju's mom says some messed up stuff. "beside's, think about cremia. she needs stength from a partner and buisness suport from madame aroma. If kafei really has run off with cremia, she'll get both. please don't be sad. how happy could you possibly be marrying a man when he's about to get married? it would just make your life unhappy... just like your mother's"
I used to get scared when she suddenly puts the Kafei mask on and then starts crying. I couldn't read and thought what is her problem and why is this game so scary!
Its also hits hard if Link doesn't intervene, Kafei still goes to get the mask back, but even if he was able to get it back, without Links help, she gives up and leaves with her family. I'm really happy that you have to do only one chain to get the quest to work out, because if both were their own semi-individual things, it would hurt a lot to complete one half and not have the other show up.
@@elivcdxv1852 that can still happen. If you help Kafei but forgot to complete Anju's side of things, Kafei will arrive at the meeting place and despair to realize she gave up on him. I don't know if there's a way to have her arrive but he doesn't.
@@Kahtisemo Oh, I moreso meant in a manner of them having completely independent side quest that were both required to be completed, rather than the interactions between the two from a distance we get. Like if Anjus side was more based around things that would, without Kafei's own involvement, get her to stick around, meanwhile Kafei's side having to deal with things that would involve more information gathering so he could track Sakon to Ikana Canyon, I'm pretty happy they weren't split quest with a unified ending, because believe me, I've definitely forgotten to give Anju the pendant before, unfortunately. I'm honestly kinda sleep deprived at the moment, but If the side quest were separated with no indication of if everything was right on side A or B, it'd have definitely felt a lot more like intense trial and error on the 64 version,
Nintendo went from this, to Wind Waker. Majora's Mask will always be my favorite game. Each character was an individual. Happy moments, sad moments, untimely death. Impending death for everyone. It's the most human Zelda game.
@@jordanlucas7392 I don't think hearing about a tree dying really compares to the entire cast of characters in the process of coming to grips with their own mortality.
@@Tailstraw_xD I know this is a late comment but I think you need to replay Wind Waker. That's not even remotely what the game is about. There are some shallow, overly aggrandized zelda games out there, but Wind Waker was way ahead of its time with the overall message of not clinging to a past you can't go back to, and it gave Ganondorf a depth of character he never had before and hasn't had since. It's a very mature game despite the toon graphics.
@@MoonfallMidnight I never said I disliked Wind Waker. The tone and story beats of that game don't really compare. Wind Waker often has a goofy, comedic thing happen soon after any serious, somber moments happen. The writing was like "Ooh, that sister thing was a bit too serious, let's launch Link out of a catapult and have him make a funny face."
The way the girl convulses when she cries is so disturbing... It reminds me of the movie "Begotten" in the opening scene, in the "God killing himself" scene.
When I was younger I hated this quest line cuz it was just more stuff to go through to get the Fierce Diety's Mask. Now going through this being older I realize it really is a very emotionally charged sidequest. That's not to say all the other sidequests in MM don't have their own level of weight to them, but this one is particular is just very heavy to me.
There will come a day, when hardship will not go away. When you ache and burn and curse. With no more tears to shed, down this journey life has led. You choose to smile and be happy, because to not would be much worse. Not because you "should". But be happy for your own good. For that's a choice YOU make, and nothing can ever take that from you. ~A poem on hardship, for a tiny corner of the internet. ~By A stranger.
The quirky nature of this game, her pulling asking if Link recognizes Kafei by just whipping out a mask somehow doesn't ruin the mood. You still feel bad about something troubling her. I chuckle for a second, then I continue to feel sorry for her.
Honestly I would feel dfevastated too, if my fiance vanished a few days before the end of the world, nevermind the wedding, and the rumors were that he ran off with my best friend.
People now days will never know the fascinating experience of watching those NPC characters move in that way, in OoT they where almost statics and now (2000) they interact with their world and have newer dialogues. Loved those days
This was the first time I met Anju. I thought she was just some random nice lady. I really wonder what people’s reaction was to her after seeing the cucco lady.
💙Memories I love Anju and Kafei Love scens and Requests there masks the wedding dress in her room, uhhhhhhh i feel like my old self again... thank You!
Bro WTF?! I never seen this interaction before! I been watching a lot of Majora's Mask videos lately and I keep finding new interactions. It is crazy to see how much this game had to offer, despite it being rushed!
Have you played the hd textures version, or do you plan do it somewhere in the future?. I personally find the game more good looking with real hardware on a crt (is way more dark, and the purple colors of the final day stand out more) but with the hd textures i cannot deny that it almost gives a new life to this old game for those who do not have real hardware.
I changed my name btw Just thought I’d tell y’all If y’all still look at the comments on this video. Also any name suggestions idk lol Pride wildcat warrior or whatever I had I don’t Like for a name no more 😆 so if y’all can give me any suggestions in the comments That would be great 👍
Not only does this give us a timeline of skull kid finding majora mask it also is very sad due to her not seeing Kafei who comes outside at this time as well to get the letter from the postman
I have a recommendation for a 10 hour ambience: in Dragon’s Dogma, there are rooms in the everfall (post dragon) that have the Dark Arisen menu theme on a loop with no vocal backing, so it’s super calm and mellow 😮💨🙏 have a listen, you’ll love it. Hell, a lot of the tracks are ambient
It's weird that mundane also means "of this earthly world". The characters feel kinda real don't they? Maybe you were expecting something more epic, but for me the way the character's stories unfold is epic. Good stories don't need flashy special effects to be good, sometimes mundane is enough. The moon falling over everyone in 3 days is not mundane, but helping everyone surpass their personal struggles before the 3 days end might be. And that's the whole point of the game.
@@Helladamnleet I mean you are not obligued to like it. Was just sharing my perspective. Modern games have a higher bar to meet in terms on quality and not being rushed, but often do worse in both than MM imo. That might be nostalgia talking but whatever. I like that MM can be played as a big side story, instead of being another grand quest to destroy ganon. And it keeps enough Zelda formula for it to be very enjoyable within the series its put into. It's not supposed to be anything more than a fun side story with rehashed elements of Oot.
