Now you see this game has what games these days don't have, a small world. Yes, I believe that's a good thing, most worlds these days are massive and bland, they hold nothing but space to walk or drive in. This world however, oh boy, every inch of it oozes hand crafted charm. You can tell they really wanted to bring the world to live, whether it is true the dark music or the surreal graphic style.
This small world also leads me to another aspect Majora's Mask is triumphant in, characters.The characters in this game are all so... realistically fatal. They all acknowledge the moon is falling towards the Earth but they all live in false hope that it is merely all going to be okay. This very idea is a key value that spreads throughout the entire game.
The idea of acknowledging ones own mortality.
Now most people will say I'm looking too deep into this game, but it is too prevalent throughout the games to be ignored. Whether it is the mailman who cannot leave his job up to his own death or the skilled swordsman who turns into a babbling coward when he faces his own death. This game tells us how no matter how hard we believe we will never die, we will all eventually meet "with a terrible faith".
Now as a kid I obviously didn't imagine such deep underlying themes to this game, all I knew is that some mask was making the moon fall and that four of the creepiest looking creatures I'd ever seen were trying to stop him. Still even as a kid I knew there was something sinister going on behind everything, the dying musician zora who never even got his death acknowledged, the crazy father in Ikana Valley..... hrmm I'm trailing off here.
Anyway I've kind of just blathered here for a good while and not really gotten any point across but I guess that;s kind of how everyone talks about anything they're nostalgic for. It's impossible to tally up this nostalgia, heck maybe if I played this game today with a blank slate I wouldn't even like it but maybe that's the magic of childhood, it really makes everything seems so much more alive.Back when I was a kid and watched Home Alone, the scenes where the kid went into the basement as saw the laughing boiler thing, I shit my pants, it was actually so creepy and I felt like I was in the basement myself. Re-watching that now it feels cheap and silly, I guess it's for this reason too I don't believe adults should review movies for children as they miss out on the childish view of the media.
It's also for this reason I find music critics and food critics to be utterly pointless, how could one outlook on something be the word of god?
Then again with universally liked artists such as Michael Jackson maybe there is some point in it all, I really don't know to be honest, I ain't no philosopher like ma boi Oscar Gamble.
Well if you stuck with my irritating rambling till now, thanks yo, I shall leave you with some saucy John Locke, oh god look at him smile!
