#t permanent and it got me thinking bc it analysed time loops from a kill-heavy assassins style game whereas mm is much more of a help peopl | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

comixandco · 3 years ago

Text

imagine if the credits for majora’s mask were tied to the actions you did in your last cycle

like instead of that everybody is happy celebrating the festival, if they were a specific set of cutscenes that each play depending on whether you did it before fighting majora or not

so like, if you didn’t defeat each temple boss you would see cutscenes from that region still in trouble like the deku with the monkey over the fire or the gorons all frozen, but if you did kill all the bosses in the last cycle you can see the regions happy like in the actual credits

and the same for important quests as well, grog could either be with his chicks or with grown cuccoos, pamela might be with her dad or she’d be on her own, you can only see anju and kafei’s wedding if you complete their quests then fight majora, if you don’t help romani defend the ranch she isn’t playing with her sister in the credits she’s just sat there

idk i just think it would be really neat if you finished the game and were suddenly hit by the realisation that that’s it, the cycles are over and your choices in that final go-through are how the characters will live the rest of their lives

and it would make you want to go back and play through again if you saw your favourite characters not having the happy ending they deserved

#majora’s mask #legend of zelda #loz #loz mm #this post sponsored by the final three days gang #do as many quests as you can and defeat the four bosses you monsters #there was a post i saw like last week about time cycles in video games and how you get complacent with violence and tragedy because it isn’#t permanent and it got me thinking bc it analysed time loops from a kill-heavy assassins style game whereas mm is much more of a help peopl #e game. and yet. you can’t do everything in one loop even after you’re able to skip through the temples to the boss room #and going through the game you know that. if you’re completing the great bay this cycle you don’t have time to go heal kotake or save the #monkey or unfreeze the goron’s on the mountain. and you can’t always remember/sacrifice those 3 hours to help romani #and you rationalise it as well they won’t matter when i play the song of time anyway. but wouldn’t it be a kick in the face if after you’ve #gotten into that mentality and you’ve collected all the masks but only once and you go defeat majora #and realise in the credits that romani was abducted by aliens. cremia has no money because her cows were stolen/milk was stolen by bandits.#the old lady won’t remember you saving her from the robbery on the first night and koume and kotake never met you. lulu won’t remember her #eggs being saved or the seahorses that you reunited them. you don’t have the top score on any of the carnival games.#link will remember because he lived through it but nobody in termina will remember his name aside from whoever you did help on your final #cycle. and idk i just think about that a lot

127 notes · View notes