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Majora's Mask 3DS, Part Two
This game gets weird after you arrive in Zora’s Bay.
Link’s acquisitions of the Deku Mask and the Goron Mask are both strange and a bit sad, but the way he comes into possession of the Zora Mask is downright creepy. When Link arrives at the beach, there’s a wounded Zora in the water. Link pushes the guy onto the sand, where he bleeds out and dies. Before Link buries him, he takes the dead Zora’s face and turns it into a mask. What in the fucking fuck?
And did I mention how Link screams in abject pain every time he puts on one of these masks?
It turns out that the dead Zora has gotten a girl pregnant, except it wasn’t him, and she tried to get rid of the eggs she laid, but now she wants them back, and no one can find them because they’ve already been captured, as they're apparently quite valuable (for what purpose?? ahhhhhhh). None of this is dealt with in any significant way, as the story merely guides the player along in the form of a series of flags she needs to capture in order to access the third dungeon.
As a side note, I’m fairly certain that the open body of water in the Zora Bay is supposed to be the ocean, which would mean that the Zora can survive in salt water. It's therefore troubling that the species has evolved into a more birdlike form in Wind Waker. The Zora are a race that thrives in water, and then the world is covered by water, so they’re turned into bird people? The Goddesses in these games are assholes, no joke.
As another side note, I suspect that there are more individual Gerudo in the Gerudo Fortress than there are people in Clock Town. I didn’t count, so I can’t say for certain, but it's obvious that the Fortress map is much larger than the map of Clock Town. It’s also a gorgeous area, with stark metal structures tinged with rust on the outside and lavish furniture and tapestries on the inside. The compound has an entire room lined with bookshelves and another room containing several floor-to-ceiling glass cabinets full of alcohol, and the quality of the living areas is head and shoulders above anything in Clock Town. The pirate leader Aveil is a woman after my own heart; and honestly, if I had to live in Termina as an NPC, I would totally learn two-handed sword fighting if it meant I could hang out with her and her pirate buddies.
In any case, the ocean in Majora’s Mask being in the same approximate location as the desert in Ocarina of Time reinforces my headcanon that the OoT desert used to be underwater. This is also strongly implied in Skyward Sword, a game that one day I will actually go back to after I finish racing beavers through water rings, which sounds like a euphemism for something dirty but is totally literal in Majora’s Mask I swear.
Link’s acquisitions of the Deku Mask and the Goron Mask are both strange and a bit sad, but the way he comes into possession of the Zora Mask is downright creepy. When Link arrives at the beach, there’s a wounded Zora in the water. Link pushes the guy onto the sand, where he bleeds out and dies. Before Link buries him, he takes the dead Zora’s face and turns it into a mask. What in the fucking fuck?
And did I mention how Link screams in abject pain every time he puts on one of these masks?
It turns out that the dead Zora has gotten a girl pregnant, except it wasn’t him, and she tried to get rid of the eggs she laid, but now she wants them back, and no one can find them because they’ve already been captured, as they're apparently quite valuable (for what purpose?? ahhhhhhh). None of this is dealt with in any significant way, as the story merely guides the player along in the form of a series of flags she needs to capture in order to access the third dungeon.
As a side note, I’m fairly certain that the open body of water in the Zora Bay is supposed to be the ocean, which would mean that the Zora can survive in salt water. It's therefore troubling that the species has evolved into a more birdlike form in Wind Waker. The Zora are a race that thrives in water, and then the world is covered by water, so they’re turned into bird people? The Goddesses in these games are assholes, no joke.
As another side note, I suspect that there are more individual Gerudo in the Gerudo Fortress than there are people in Clock Town. I didn’t count, so I can’t say for certain, but it's obvious that the Fortress map is much larger than the map of Clock Town. It’s also a gorgeous area, with stark metal structures tinged with rust on the outside and lavish furniture and tapestries on the inside. The compound has an entire room lined with bookshelves and another room containing several floor-to-ceiling glass cabinets full of alcohol, and the quality of the living areas is head and shoulders above anything in Clock Town. The pirate leader Aveil is a woman after my own heart; and honestly, if I had to live in Termina as an NPC, I would totally learn two-handed sword fighting if it meant I could hang out with her and her pirate buddies.
In any case, the ocean in Majora’s Mask being in the same approximate location as the desert in Ocarina of Time reinforces my headcanon that the OoT desert used to be underwater. This is also strongly implied in Skyward Sword, a game that one day I will actually go back to after I finish racing beavers through water rings, which sounds like a euphemism for something dirty but is totally literal in Majora’s Mask I swear.