Two decades after its initial release, Majora's Mask still feels remarkably fresh playing it for the first time now. I loved Ocarina of Time as a kid, so this game comes with no small amount of tangential nostalgia, but the structure renders it unique from not just other Zelda games, but anything else I've played, too.
Each new discovery in the early stages of the game comes with a whole host of new questions for how it fits into the mechanical puzzle of the three day loop. The world and its characters are packed with personality and charm, though some of the grandeur is missing from its N64 cousin. By the end of my playthrough I'll admit to finding some of the repetition tedious, but that hardly takes away from a remarkable experience on the whole.
Each new discovery in the early stages of the game comes with a whole host of new questions for how it fits into the mechanical puzzle of the three day loop. The world and its characters are packed with personality and charm, though some of the grandeur is missing from its N64 cousin. By the end of my playthrough I'll admit to finding some of the repetition tedious, but that hardly takes away from a remarkable experience on the whole.