Here's Swedish speedrunner EnNopp112 setting yet another Zelda: Majora's Mask world record—this time clocking in at just under an hour and a half (without cheats) while completing the N64 game.
Majora's Mask is an acquired taste. One I've never fully acquired, sadly (the time limit is TOO STRESSFUL), but I'd be keener on the game if it was this broken in its natural state.
Here's an early Christmas present for Legend of Zelda fans: a live-action preamble to the story of Majora's Mask, giving the backstory of the Skull Kid who stole it, fell under its spell, and emerged as the principal antagonist of the game.
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“Please write that I laughed,” Zelda bossman Eiji Aonuma told IGN during a recent interview when asked whether Nintendo plans to remake The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
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Artist Camille Young - who we've featured before here - is the master craftsperson behind this amazing 1:1 replica of Majora's Mask from the Zelda game of the same name.
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This is... I don't even know what to say. Just watch. Sheer genius.
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This morning, I received a link to a twenty-year-old video. It's the first-ever preview of The Journeyman Project, as shown at Macworld in 1992. Perhaps appropriately for a game about time travel, I felt a distinct sense of journeying into the past while I watched it. What once looked so painstakingly rendered now, in …
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In today's completely insane edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter MSumm rages over the difficulty of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask and then begs to be hit harder.
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"If you like what you hear, imagine what a real opera could do with it," YouTuber MBulteau13 writes. We're imagining. Oh, we're imagining.
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No, Nintendo didn't announce a 3DS remake of Majora's Mask while you weren't looking, but with the success of Ocarina of Time 3D it would be silly not to, so commenter Daemon_Gildas has preemptively assembled his list of demands in today's Speak Up on Kotaku.
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So there was this guy, and he bought a Majora's Mask cartridge from a creepy old guy, and it had wicked scary glitches in it, like Link would burst into flame while the Song of Healing played backward, and ...
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I must admit, it's been a while since I downloaded a game from the Virtual Console. Then again, it's been a while since a Nintendo 64 Zelda game was released on the Virtual console.
