Out of EVERYTHING in this game, the moment I found the most disturbing was discovering the fearless swordsman trembling for his life in the back of his dojo
I loved this game as a kid, it really set my imagination on fire... the fearless swordsman cowering while a simple carpenter stands and laughs and taunts the moon in his final moments... everyone's true nature came out in the end. Such a phenomenal game
@@TheSilly6403 I had a cracked version of the game on an very early emulator on my PC. I never had a Nintendo. So the game was in English and I did not understand a single word. I could never get rid of the Deku form, nor did I know how to even leave clocktown because the guards would not let me. I thought this is the game. Only clocktown, you are cursed to stay deku link forever and somehow manage the moon to not fall. And I still loved the game, even if I was restricted to the small clock town area. I tried pressing random button, speak to random people and get lucky to open some quest which would help with the moon problem. My jaw dropped the moment a friend talked about dozens of masks you can obtain, a outside world, becoming young link, calling giants... I thought he must be full of **** first. That all sounded so far-fetched. 2-3 years later I searched for that game again on my new PC and finally play it all through. So the game actually was bigger and more amazing than I ever thought as a little kid
@@godoftestoe7956 UA-cam keeps deleting my comments so I don't know the original comment I posted, but I love that lol. It's amazing how magical these games can be as kids, especially when you still haven't discovered much yet.
@@TheSilly6403 yes somehow my previous comment vanished too, but seems like you were able to read it. And I can also still see both of your comments. I guess youtube is bugging around right now. Yes as a kid games really felt like magic. I was so scared by the moon, especially the last few minutes when it was about to crash. I didnt knew about playing the ocarina and stuff, so I was always doomed to die at the last day. That huge scary face in the sky. I could never forget this game because of the chills it gave me back then. And the bells made it extra scary. Tried shooting bubbles at the moon, at people, nothing worked. It was sad to see the people die everytime I started a new cycle. Lol
Nothing is more surreal and immersive than exploring majoras mask overworld during the final hours. Just absolute brilliance with atmosphere. Its unreal how perfectly this game portrays reality of impending doom. Something about the fireworks always being set off a midnight on night 3 is so unerving. Its the start to the chain of misfortune when the reality is it was supposed to spark the events of a thrilling event. The carnival of time... The towns people didnt need to set them off but they did anyway regardless of the perpetual death looming directly above them.
When i played this game waaaay back in the day, I was a fresh jizz stain that barely knew games from reality. When i got to this point in the game...I had the most intense sense of dread & despair i ever felt in my life. Then impact... That fvcking impact gave me nightmares...me screaming in a mortal agony as that blast wave engulfed me like it did Link... Some of the worst nightmares i ever had. Havent played it in...come to think of it, i dont think i ever touched the game again after that... Still gives me the willies to this day when i hear the pace of those bells begin to pick up.... And im fvcking 29 lmao
The song almost tells you something basically saying “Hey, you failed, you could have saved them if you were better, you could have saved darmarnie and mikau, but you were to late. and now you are late again, so go and loop again and save them, or are you scared of the mask near the moon, and because you were a wimp you let anju, kafe, the mayor, lulu, and everyone else die in this fire. and soon you to will die in it”
Can we all get an F in the comments for the lad that stayed just to ring the bells down to the final moment? A brave and stubborn soul was lost on that day. RIP Clock Town bell man.
Not in Germany. Here it has a older than 12 years old rating. If i remember correctly it had a "anything older than 6 years old" for a while, but was changed pretty quick.
"Minimum 3000 words." Let me buff my essay then. "The rabbit is white and hops around." No, that won't do. "The hyper, fluffy mammalian characterized by hopping locomotion as well as prolific procreation doth meander swiftly traversing the lush meadow of voluptuous girth arrangements." Perfect.
what makes this so creepy, in my opinion, is that it merely seems like a quiet night. not a thing is different from the normal: crickets still chirp, nature goes about it’s normalities, even the sky resembles something of a late summer night. you’d already assume its quiet since its so late in the night, so even the stillness isn’t something that would leave a person feeling so uneasy. then you look up, and you learn the world will soon become loud with death.
I think I like the original better than the remake because it allows that to happen. Even the beginning of the next sunrise can be seen shortly before impact.
*its normalities. If you were referring to a man/woman, you would make no mistake to use the possessive pronoun: his normalities / her normalities. The same logic applies to the neuter pronoun: it is a simple word, "its." What is it that people find SO confusing about the existence of the neuter pronoun "its?" I'll never know. It's just another word which, like all words, does not have an apostrophe inside of itself. It's honestly baffling.
It might be creepy and all, but I guess Majora's Mask moon is so far the most detailed N64 model I have seen so far. Especially it's eyes, like, it perfectly seems like a circle, not a weird low quality PNG that resembles a circle.
This game is... horror? Not sure what I'd call it... done right. It's crafted far more deeply and emotionally than anyone would see from the surface. Every NPC feels alive, and you experience their fears, worries, and sadness in very raw ways. Which makes it such a brilliant game. It's so dark so that you gain the satisfaction of being able to illuminate some pieces of code's lives. And it works. People ask why I like dark stories. I only like them if there is still a smidget of light and hope left in contrast. That contrast is why endears me to these games because it feels so consistent with real life feelings. We all have our ups and downs, but the ups do not exist without the downs.
this game for sure has an insane amount of character, especially with how much time the devs were given. 2 years, according to google. (ocarina of time was 3 and a half years, also according to google.) majoras mask isnt horror, but i would for sure say it's an emotional game.
Now imagine it's the endgame for majora's mask and you are just sitting there waiting, no music to keep you company not a peep from the game just enimes and crikets chirping. Waiting for the moon to start falling every one is helped in every way possible. Then boom clock strikes 12 in game and you hurry back to the clock tower getting inside to fight majora hearing this beautifully haunting melody in the back. Truly a breath taking experience. The last peice you hear before the game ends is truly wonderful people around you have lost all hope an Erie melancholic song that really makes you question if it's worth it the bell chimes getting more frantic then the moon finally collides and you see the end of the world
Watching this video made my heart brake. As a kid I wanted to see what would happen if I let the moon fall, and it traumatized me. I wouldn’t let the clock even reach the third day, and because of that I wasn’t able to beat the game. A few years passed and I decided to pick up my 3DS once again. I have beaten the game and now it’s one of my favorites!
I need to pick this game up and try to beat it... Traumatized my kid ass into never touching it again, after i legit thought my world was going to die. Yeah. Thats how convincing those final hours were to child me at the time. I'm 29 now. And it Still gives me the willies, to an extent...
Imagine being one of those kids back in the day that couldn’t figure out how to get their ocarina back in the first three days. You’re just as scared and panicked as everyone else in this game because you have no way out.
I love how the ringing gets more and more frantic the closer you get to the calamity. Starts off ringing every 10 minutes (8 real-world seconds), then with 1 hour to go it increases in urgency to every 5 minutes, then every 3 minutes when you have only half an in-game hour to go.
Even while I know this is just a video and I cannot change its outcome.. during the final minute of the countdown, my head became riddled with sentences like these: "Please Link, do something!".. "At least TRY to save these people, you KNOW you're the only one who can help them!"... "Why are you just running around? do you want everyone to die?"... "There's no point in collecting these things, you don't even have the time to use them all..." I swear, I even cried a little. I'm very fond of Termina, considering I've never played this game thoroughly...
When you think about it, link keeps his memories of everything even after the song of time. All this trauma for a small kid all this pressure trying to save the world. Yet he still stands strong. Majora’s mask link is truly fearless
And this is why l consider Majora’s Mask my favorite entry in the Zelda franchise. It has so much charm, personality, and character that it really puts the other games to shame because you really feel for the plight of these characters, because over the many cycles, you get to see their hopes, dreams, and help them solve their problems. You know exactly what their fate will be if you fail to stop Majora, because, unlike every other entry this game has the balls to show you what happens and what it will do. Think of it like this, look at OoT’s adult time skip or ALttP’s Dark World. Sure, things are horrible with Ganon in power, but things seem more or less status quo, just with a big bad guy in charge. Stopping him will help the people of Hyrule live happier, more prosperous lives, but it doesn’t feel like a life or death matter to the Hylians, as even an evil king still needs subjects. Majora is a different beast- it doesn’t care about ruling over it’s subjects. It only cares about inflicting as much misery and suffering on the people of Termina before it decides at their lowest point, where things seem hopeless to just consume the whole land. If you don’t stop it, not only will you not survive, everyone else will die. And these characters come to realize that in their final hours, no matter how far away they are from Clock Town, they aren’t safe. They know they will die. Some of them deny this fact, some of them are fearful for their lives, some stay steadfast in their resolve to do what they always do. And then there’s the brave ones that despite knowing their time is up, stay strong for the ones that depend on them.
This game somehow really stresses how urgent it is for the player to save the world, with a real life countdown and only three days to save the world before it’s simply gone. The player is really frightened, knowing that he can’t just do whatever he wants like he should. He must save the world before it’s too late. Every time you look at the sky, the moon gets a little bit closer. It’s terrifying in the best way possible, mainly because the game perfectly portrays how the end of world as you know it would look like, especially in the final hours.
Everyone is in fear, the moon is slowly getting closer and closer This is your final hours living on earth you hear all of them screaming in fear while the moon has touched the surface the bell has stopped ringing say goodbye to your life because the moon has destroyed everything
Ahhh the anxiety..... Of one's time.... Running out.... The pressure to do what must be done. An insurmountable obstacle, a path that one fears to tread. And in the end, all it took.... Was some courage. ✨
4:13 start of the Final Hours. I have to ask, is there a reason you didn't start the timer inside with the cutscene of the Clock Tower? Edit: Ohhhh, that's why. The Clock Tower can still be seen expanding into the Carnival tower from outside. Interesting touch.
one thing i like better about the n64 version vs the 3ds is how dawn is breaking at the final minutes of the final hours. it just adds a sad and creepy factor instead of the sky being a blood red all night till dawn
Same here. On the contrary, it gives kind of a glimmer of hope as dawn arrives when the giants come in a sense that you’re literally trying to save the day. The sky being red in the 3DS version is definitely one of the changes I didn’t like.
@@brandikins11They were trying to make it look menacing and dramatic, but it really messes with the deeper meanings of seeing daybreak. I always thought of it as seeing the dawn of a new day you can't live.
Thanks for posting this. I always beat the game anymore, without asking characters for clues and experiencing the world. There is a lot of stuff in here that I missed.
So there are two reasons why I use the Song of Time in case of emergencies. 1. When the counter shows up at midnight on the third day when I’m not at the spot where I’ll play Oath to Order, Even after finding the four giants. Which this counter is the one you see on the original N64 version at the bottom of the screen on 4:13. And 2. When I fail to complete a quest.
This is my favorite iteration of all the Zelda games I've played so far! Hearing the doomed music begin, the contrast of the festival fireworks, the clock tower bell tolls and seeing the fear of digital people & their diminishing hopes was what set this one aside from the other games. Then you get to repeat the 3-day cycle like 'Groundhog Day' until you're able to stop Majora & Skull Kid from causing the moon to impact Termina. No one word can adequately describe the numerous relatable aspects it dives into with every NPCs story, especially since it is an EXTREMELY difficult feat to attempt saving every single one of them before the game's climax. Despite the gloominess of it all, those flickers and sparks of faith are what make people bring out their best from within in my humble opinion. To me, it was more than just a game & helped me to see all of that in real life. 🙏
nothing concerns me more than the fact that someone rang the bells one last time, each time more frantically quicker than the last time, making you feel his despair just to see him fall along with the clock tower.
@@Shadowmanisreallycool it’s a reference to a fake video that displays the end of a kids network called Qubo The music playing in the background is Final Hours and the video itself displays a creepy red screen while having a ransom message along with all the qubo cartoon characters slowly one by one being shot and killed, revealing their skull and disappearing until none are left
then when the timer runs out, it basically says this: “Due to the selflessness of our watchers, we are forced to cease operations, its your fault. Qubo 2006-2021 *thanks for nothing* “
"Anxiety ridden memories" implies that the anxiety has ridden the memories. But you were trying to say that the memories are ridden with anxiety. For that meaning, you need the hyphen to join "anxiety" and "ridden" and form a compound adjective: "anxiety-ridden memories."
@@S0meb0dy728 Except they really aren't wrong (with respect to Zelda games.) It's insane how much stuff of actual quality the devs could achieve back in the day with all the limitations they had. Compare this to BotW or TotK; Majora's Mask simply has the better atmosphere, story, music (unlike those two this actually exists in this game), dungeons, and characters.
@@S0meb0dy728 Because the statement is objectively correct, until the next crash or the Triple As and its Corpo's corruption that grew those past 24 years is rooted out - we still have objective standards of qualities for numerous genres that are not being met for the purpose of maximizing profit, an history in danger of not being properly preserved, countless anti-consumer practices, mindless consumerism, a parasitic politic, dying legends that saw their reputation tarnished and much more. Thanfully we have the resistance of the video game industry against these problems, and maintain a standard for good games being made to counter the current state of video games and spreading proper awareness.
I was going to make a comment about scientific inaccuracy but this is, of course, fiction, and also that this could very well be explained by some magical power coming from Majora.
@@Capone306 I mean, it's not your fault! The fact that somehow a carnival of time is happening at the exact moment while a moon is descending onto the earth is truly addicting.
This game really made a impact in my life where i look back on memories and connect some songs w those specific memories, especially, the song of healing
"Hi res textures" refers to high textures which are also "res textures." I suspect you were trying to type "hi-res textures" with the hyphen. Actually, strike that, I don't suspect that at all. You probably don't know how to use the hyphen. But I'm just pointing out that that's the correct spelling.
I don't like your wrong use of the comparative "more scarier" (the correct form is simply "scarier" without the "more"), but the by far worse transgression is your ommission of the colon after it. You can't simply join your two sentences without any punctuation like that; it's actually illegal.
@@warrockneurd It is a HD texture pack made by the UA-camr known as Nerrel, HD in this sense just means high-res as in the textures have been entirely redone to look good on higher resolutions and be faithful to the game and sometimes even the box art when possible
Theres just something so wild about everyone else cowering or grimly accepting their fates and Mutoh standing in the town square in defiance and denial just yelling at the moon thats going to kill him. He may he an ignoramus, but at least he was gonna go out on his own terms like a man.
The way every character reacts to the death that will soon take them, whether they accept it or not, feels so REAL. And this game was RUSHED, by the way.
no matter what you do, where you are, what form you take, there is NOTHING you can do by yourself to even hope to survive the terminian apocalypse. you could be hiding in a fallout shelter (like the ocean spider house) or take the form of a physical god, and you will still die. the only safe haven in termina is inside the clock tower, but that's only because time STOPS for whoever is inside the tower. in fact, go see the mask salseman at 5am on the final day. time will still be frozen inside the clock tower, the final hours music remains unchanged. and the mask salesman says you have literally *no* time left. but as long as you're inside the clock tower, time will not advance.
So you've got two choices. Accept death at the hands of the moon, or... Starve inside the clock tower, eating the only other human in there for sustenance.
There is a guy that takes one of the spider houses as refuge. I don't think he would have made it staying underground. It's the guy that was the first in Clock Town to notice the moon. If I can remember, it was after completing the lakeside spider house. After that, anytime talking to him is just the guy counting down the time left.
When i played this game waaaay back in the day, I was a fresh jizz stain that barely knew games from reality. When i got to this point in the game...I had the most intense sense of dread & despair i ever felt in my life. Then impact... That fvcking impact gave me nightmares...me screaming in a mortal agony as that blast wave engulfed me like it did Link... Some of the worst nightmares i ever had. Havent played it in...come to think of it, i dont think i ever touched the game again after that... Still gives me the willies to this day when i hear the pace of those bells begin to pick up.... And im fvcking 29 lmao
@@Christopher01906 I intend to. :) I intend to find a gamecube, or n64, or whatever it runs on, find the appropriate cartridge/cd, find a crt tv, and beat it. Properly. Once i have a few hundred bucks to spare. :)
I prefer this video over the the instrumental because i can here the gameplay. All the life thats about to be obliterated by the moon. The track screams doom for all living under the moon
If you rearrange a deck of cards enough times, then statistically it will eventually be in its original formation. Due to the fact that time is infinite, the same goes for the particles in your brain. There is a higher chance of your brain briefly forming in a void complete with memories of living than there is of you actually existing on earth. The only thing you can be sure of is the existence of your own mind. If you are reading this, you are likely the only real consciousness to have ever existed in the entire universe. You are alone. Nothing is real. This theory is called the Boltzmann Brain.
That sound in particular is from a sample pack called "Spectrasonic Distorted Reality", and the track is "ICELAND 1". Koji Kondo is not only the master of composing, he also knows the art of sampling pretty damn well. A masterpiece.
This gave me a sudden fear that the moon could crash into the earth at any moment. I don't care if it won't be able to touch the surface, I'm still traumatized.
I wish someone did a hack of this game where the moon falls from the sky from day one of the seven day cycle instead of the 3 Day cycle. Naturally it would still be three days total but this way it would seem like the moon falls faster. If it's more mathematically feasible use a Six-Day fall cycle instead of 7. Once the final moments are upon Link he can use the song of inverted time to slow the moon's fall. This would give that song critical function and would aid the Giants as they catch the Moon.
Out of EVERYTHING in this game, the moment I found the most disturbing was discovering the fearless swordsman trembling for his life in the back of his dojo
I loved this game as a kid, it really set my imagination on fire... the fearless swordsman cowering while a simple carpenter stands and laughs and taunts the moon in his final moments... everyone's true nature came out in the end. Such a phenomenal game
@@TheSilly6403 I had a cracked version of the game on an very early emulator on my PC. I never had a Nintendo. So the game was in English and I did not understand a single word. I could never get rid of the Deku form, nor did I know how to even leave clocktown because the guards would not let me. I thought this is the game. Only clocktown, you are cursed to stay deku link forever and somehow manage the moon to not fall. And I still loved the game, even if I was restricted to the small clock town area. I tried pressing random button, speak to random people and get lucky to open some quest which would help with the moon problem. My jaw dropped the moment a friend talked about dozens of masks you can obtain, a outside world, becoming young link, calling giants... I thought he must be full of **** first. That all sounded so far-fetched. 2-3 years later I searched for that game again on my new PC and finally play it all through. So the game actually was bigger and more amazing than I ever thought as a little kid
@@godoftestoe7956 UA-cam keeps deleting my comments so I don't know the original comment I posted, but I love that lol. It's amazing how magical these games can be as kids, especially when you still haven't discovered much yet.
@@TheSilly6403 yes somehow my previous comment vanished too, but seems like you were able to read it. And I can also still see both of your comments. I guess youtube is bugging around right now.
Yes as a kid games really felt like magic. I was so scared by the moon, especially the last few minutes when it was about to crash. I didnt knew about playing the ocarina and stuff, so I was always doomed to die at the last day. That huge scary face in the sky. I could never forget this game because of the chills it gave me back then. And the bells made it extra scary. Tried shooting bubbles at the moon, at people, nothing worked. It was sad to see the people die everytime I started a new cycle. Lol
I've played through several times since I was a kid, and have never known about this until this comment and video. What a trip.
Nothing is more surreal and immersive than exploring majoras mask overworld during the final hours. Just absolute brilliance with atmosphere. Its unreal how perfectly this game portrays reality of impending doom.
Something about the fireworks always being set off a midnight on night 3 is so unerving. Its the start to the chain of misfortune when the reality is it was supposed to spark the events of a thrilling event. The carnival of time... The towns people didnt need to set them off but they did anyway regardless of the perpetual death looming directly above them.
this is the only not cringy comment on this whole video
everything about it is amazing
Couldn’t have said it better myself. Thoes final minutes….just a sense of hope slipping away
When i played this game waaaay back in the day, I was a fresh jizz stain that barely knew games from reality.
When i got to this point in the game...I had the most intense sense of dread & despair i ever felt in my life.
Then impact...
That fvcking impact gave me nightmares...me screaming in a mortal agony as that blast wave engulfed me like it did Link...
Some of the worst nightmares i ever had.
Havent played it in...come to think of it, i dont think i ever touched the game again after that...
Still gives me the willies to this day when i hear the pace of those bells begin to pick up.... And im fvcking 29 lmao
The song almost tells you something basically saying
“Hey, you failed, you could have saved them if you were better, you could have saved darmarnie and mikau, but you were to late.
and now you are late again, so go and loop again and save them, or are you scared of the mask near the moon, and because you were a wimp you let anju, kafe, the mayor, lulu, and everyone else die in this fire.
and soon you to will die in it”
Can we all get an F in the comments for the lad that stayed just to ring the bells down to the final moment? A brave and stubborn soul was lost on that day. RIP Clock Town bell man.
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_Remember: This game is rated E for Everyone. This is supposed to be a family-friendly game._
Not in Germany. Here it has a older than 12 years old rating. If i remember correctly it had a "anything older than 6 years old" for a while, but was changed pretty quick.
if i remember right, the 3ds remake had the age rating upped to 10 and up. at the same time though this game really shouldve been t plus LOL
@GoTi4No bro this game scared the crap out of me when I was little. I couldn’t even look at the game box art so my dad had to throw it away 💀
@GoTi4No no I mean like the actual box art the game disk I got to keep
There's a reason the 3DS remakes were rated E10...though it didn't exist at the time.
This will forever be my “turn in the paper before midnight” theme
"Minimum 3000 words."
Let me buff my essay then.
"The rabbit is white and hops around."
No, that won't do.
"The hyper, fluffy mammalian characterized by hopping locomotion as well as prolific procreation doth meander swiftly traversing the lush meadow of voluptuous girth arrangements."
Perfect.
@@scintillam_deilol
I mean, exclaim a giggling noise, similar to a monkey, after something audibly and visually funny resulting into a noise with high volume.
what makes this so creepy, in my opinion, is that it merely seems like a quiet night. not a thing is different from the normal: crickets still chirp, nature goes about it’s normalities, even the sky resembles something of a late summer night. you’d already assume its quiet since its so late in the night, so even the stillness isn’t something that would leave a person feeling so uneasy.
then you look up, and you learn the world will soon become loud with death.
I think I like the original better than the remake because it allows that to happen. Even the beginning of the next sunrise can be seen shortly before impact.
*its normalities. If you were referring to a man/woman, you would make no mistake to use the possessive pronoun: his normalities / her normalities. The same logic applies to the neuter pronoun: it is a simple word, "its." What is it that people find SO confusing about the existence of the neuter pronoun "its?" I'll never know. It's just another word which, like all words, does not have an apostrophe inside of itself. It's honestly baffling.
@@TheGrammarPolice7oh great they're here
It might be creepy and all, but I guess Majora's Mask moon is so far the most detailed N64 model I have seen so far.
Especially it's eyes, like, it perfectly seems like a circle, not a weird low quality PNG that resembles a circle.
but then, there's the nose.
@@Eldoofus yeah. But besides that, it looks kind of good for a N64 game
Conker at the cutscenes
yeah!
idk man, the cow models are good as shit for the n64
This game is... horror? Not sure what I'd call it... done right. It's crafted far more deeply and emotionally than anyone would see from the surface. Every NPC feels alive, and you experience their fears, worries, and sadness in very raw ways. Which makes it such a brilliant game. It's so dark so that you gain the satisfaction of being able to illuminate some pieces of code's lives. And it works. People ask why I like dark stories. I only like them if there is still a smidget of light and hope left in contrast. That contrast is why endears me to these games because it feels so consistent with real life feelings. We all have our ups and downs, but the ups do not exist without the downs.
this game for sure has an insane amount of character, especially with how much time the devs were given. 2 years, according to google. (ocarina of time was 3 and a half years, also according to google.)
majoras mask isnt horror, but i would for sure say it's an emotional game.
I would define the feeling I get from this game as eerie
I agree.
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I think the word you're looking for is "dread"
Now imagine it's the endgame for majora's mask and you are just sitting there waiting, no music to keep you company not a peep from the game just enimes and crikets chirping. Waiting for the moon to start falling every one is helped in every way possible. Then boom clock strikes 12 in game and you hurry back to the clock tower getting inside to fight majora hearing this beautifully haunting melody in the back. Truly a breath taking experience. The last peice you hear before the game ends is truly wonderful people around you have lost all hope an Erie melancholic song that really makes you question if it's worth it the bell chimes getting more frantic then the moon finally collides and you see the end of the world
You should really start using punctuation in your sentences because this was really difficult to read.
@@bananenmampfer695 i know
@@MifaWasTaken then use it lmao…
@@zzztriplezzz5264 i did already
I'd also like to mention I wrote this at like 1am
there's no time left...time is not eternal. Please value your time.
Memento Mori
This is the most depressing moment in Videogame history. Especially the scene between Cremia and Romani. That's just so heartbraking.
Watching this video made my heart brake. As a kid I wanted to see what would happen if I let the moon fall, and it traumatized me. I wouldn’t let the clock even reach the third day, and because of that I wasn’t able to beat the game. A few years passed and I decided to pick up my 3DS once again. I have beaten the game and now it’s one of my favorites!
congrats dude
*break
I need to pick this game up and try to beat it...
Traumatized my kid ass into never touching it again, after i legit thought my world was going to die.
Yeah. Thats how convincing those final hours were to child me at the time.
I'm 29 now. And it Still gives me the willies, to an extent...
@@davecrupel2817 I am trying to finaly beat it. Currently at the third dungeon
I only got ikana left
Imagine being one of those kids back in the day that couldn’t figure out how to get their ocarina back in the first three days. You’re just as scared and panicked as everyone else in this game because you have no way out.
Even though I started with 3DS port, I was literally one of these kids
Had to search for a guide to actually understand, how to get Ocarina
I was and I couldn't pick up the game again until I got help
Now I know why my brother dropped the game when he played it on release
@@cato3277 I don't think barely anyone could do the first cycle at their first attempt
I did figure out how to get the ocarina back but i couldn't figure out what to do after restarting the cycle the first time.
it's interesting to see the people's reaction during the final six hours. thank you !
Never space before exclamation mark, unless you're writing in French.
I love how the ringing gets more and more frantic the closer you get to the calamity. Starts off ringing every 10 minutes (8 real-world seconds), then with 1 hour to go it increases in urgency to every 5 minutes, then every 3 minutes when you have only half an in-game hour to go.
I didn’t really like this game when I first played it, but looking back at it, I realized that it was actually really good
跟我一樣
Even while I know this is just a video and I cannot change its outcome.. during the final minute of the countdown, my head became riddled with sentences like these: "Please Link, do something!".. "At least TRY to save these people, you KNOW you're the only one who can help them!"... "Why are you just running around? do you want everyone to die?"... "There's no point in collecting these things, you don't even have the time to use them all..." I swear, I even cried a little.
I'm very fond of Termina, considering I've never played this game thoroughly...
When you think about it, link keeps his memories of everything even after the song of time. All this trauma for a small kid all this pressure trying to save the world. Yet he still stands strong. Majora’s mask link is truly fearless
And this is why l consider Majora’s Mask my favorite entry in the Zelda franchise. It has so much charm, personality, and character that it really puts the other games to shame because you really feel for the plight of these characters, because over the many cycles, you get to see their hopes, dreams, and help them solve their problems. You know exactly what their fate will be if you fail to stop Majora, because, unlike every other entry this game has the balls to show you what happens and what it will do. Think of it like this, look at OoT’s adult time skip or ALttP’s Dark World. Sure, things are horrible with Ganon in power, but things seem more or less status quo, just with a big bad guy in charge. Stopping him will help the people of Hyrule live happier, more prosperous lives, but it doesn’t feel like a life or death matter to the Hylians, as even an evil king still needs subjects. Majora is a different beast- it doesn’t care about ruling over it’s subjects. It only cares about inflicting as much misery and suffering on the people of Termina before it decides at their lowest point, where things seem hopeless to just consume the whole land. If you don’t stop it, not only will you not survive, everyone else will die. And these characters come to realize that in their final hours, no matter how far away they are from Clock Town, they aren’t safe. They know they will die. Some of them deny this fact, some of them are fearful for their lives, some stay steadfast in their resolve to do what they always do. And then there’s the brave ones that despite knowing their time is up, stay strong for the ones that depend on them.
This game somehow really stresses how urgent it is for the player to save the world, with a real life countdown and only three days to save the world before it’s simply gone. The player is really frightened, knowing that he can’t just do whatever he wants like he should. He must save the world before it’s too late. Every time you look at the sky, the moon gets a little bit closer. It’s terrifying in the best way possible, mainly because the game perfectly portrays how the end of world as you know it would look like, especially in the final hours.
Everyone is in fear, the moon is slowly getting closer and closer
This is your final hours living on earth
you hear all of them screaming in fear while the moon has touched the surface
the bell has stopped ringing
say goodbye to your life because the moon has destroyed everything
did the moon explode when touching earth
@@imDANIILQW1111 i donnt think so
Solemnly beautiful.
I love the attention to detail. The shaking, the music, etc. It's all so perfect. I love how they make the ground shake as well as it gets closer.
Ahhh the anxiety..... Of one's time.... Running out.... The pressure to do what must be done. An insurmountable obstacle, a path that one fears to tread. And in the end, all it took....
Was some courage. ✨
The entire time watching this I was like "dude please go to the banker"
Yup, there goes 999 rupees
4:13 start of the Final Hours.
I have to ask, is there a reason you didn't start the timer inside with the cutscene of the Clock Tower?
Edit: Ohhhh, that's why. The Clock Tower can still be seen expanding into the Carnival tower from outside. Interesting touch.
Let’s all agree this is the darkest Legend of Zelda game in history.
No
@@Joyman69 Which Zelda Game is darker in your Opinion?
@@all-stargamer3333 Twilight princess
I saw a video on UA-cam that said EVERY Zelda game is dark
@@Joyman69 NAHHHH
5:55 what really gets me is the swordmaster with his sign :'(
one thing i like better about the n64 version vs the 3ds is how dawn is breaking at the final minutes of the final hours. it just adds a sad and creepy factor instead of the sky being a blood red all night till dawn
Same here. On the contrary, it gives kind of a glimmer of hope as dawn arrives when the giants come in a sense that you’re literally trying to save the day. The sky being red in the 3DS version is definitely one of the changes I didn’t like.
@@brandikins11They were trying to make it look menacing and dramatic, but it really messes with the deeper meanings of seeing daybreak. I always thought of it as seeing the dawn of a new day you can't live.
@@tibby4503 spot on.
Going back to Dawn of the First Day after this was always such a trip.
Thanks for posting this. I always beat the game anymore, without asking characters for clues and experiencing the world. There is a lot of stuff in here that I missed.
And so the angry moon fell from the sky, annihilating this world and its many inhabitants. All items and such gained these last 3 days are lost.
and Qubo used this for a shutdown
Remember that it was necessary to buy an Expanision Pack to play the original N64? Just a reminder. It gave 4 MB RAM for todays value of around 50 €.
So there are two reasons why I use the Song of Time in case of emergencies.
1. When the counter shows up at midnight on the third day when I’m not at the spot where I’ll play Oath to Order,
Even after finding the four giants.
Which this counter is the one you see on the original N64 version at the bottom of the screen on 4:13.
And 2. When I fail to complete a quest.
This is my favorite iteration of all the Zelda games I've played so far! Hearing the doomed music begin, the contrast of the festival fireworks, the clock tower bell tolls and seeing the fear of digital people & their diminishing hopes was what set this one aside from the other games. Then you get to repeat the 3-day cycle like 'Groundhog Day' until you're able to stop Majora & Skull Kid from causing the moon to impact Termina. No one word can adequately describe the numerous relatable aspects it dives into with every NPCs story, especially since it is an EXTREMELY difficult feat to attempt saving every single one of them before the game's climax. Despite the gloominess of it all, those flickers and sparks of faith are what make people bring out their best from within in my humble opinion. To me, it was more than just a game & helped me to see all of that in real life. 🙏
nothing concerns me more than the fact that someone rang the bells one last time, each time more frantically quicker than the last time, making you feel his despair just to see him fall along with the clock tower.
This moment is creepier than qubos final moments
huh
@@Shadowmanisreallycool it’s a reference to a fake video that displays the end of a kids network called Qubo
The music playing in the background is Final Hours and the video itself displays a creepy red screen while having a ransom message along with all the qubo cartoon characters slowly one by one being shot and killed, revealing their skull and disappearing until none are left
@@Batzzylol if you call the number in that video you just get rickrolled
Don't think that's real fella
then when the timer runs out, it basically says this: “Due to the selflessness of our watchers, we are forced to cease operations, its your fault.
Qubo 2006-2021 *thanks for nothing* “
Me: *goes outside* also me: what is that big rock with an angry fa_
I like how final hours plays regardless where you are, theres no true escape.
imagine if this happends in real life
We would die
@@Meandpigeoncoolio yes
@@Meandpigeoncoolio moongedon
@@Meandpigeoncoolio FACTS
@@MeandpigeoncoolioTRUE
11:19 Oh my gosh tell me that's where Outer Wilds' "You've met a terrible fate" achievement comes from
I'm pretty sure it is!
9:39 Time's running out! 🕖
I always felt bad for the guards. They are bound to stay until the very end, carrying out their duties knowing full well they were about to die.
They did their best job in their final hours to keep a single deku scrub inside the town walls and deny his right to escape
Damn that's wow sad and dark
this whole thing was one of the most anxiety ridden and upsetting moments of my childhood. and yet this is my favorite game in history.
"Anxiety ridden memories" implies that the anxiety has ridden the memories. But you were trying to say that the memories are ridden with anxiety. For that meaning, you need the hyphen to join "anxiety" and "ridden" and form a compound adjective: "anxiety-ridden memories."
This is what old games have, they have even more detail than recent games, even the npcs have their own personality...
"old good new bad" what a stupid mindset. but of course there's nothing more to expect from a person who ships kids from a game.
@@S0meb0dy728oh shut up
@@S0meb0dy728 chill dude, just because of that comment you are going to be so aggresive?
@@S0meb0dy728 Except they really aren't wrong (with respect to Zelda games.)
It's insane how much stuff of actual quality the devs could achieve back in the day with all the limitations they had. Compare this to BotW or TotK; Majora's Mask simply has the better atmosphere, story, music (unlike those two this actually exists in this game), dungeons, and characters.
@@S0meb0dy728 Because the statement is objectively correct, until the next crash or the Triple As and its Corpo's corruption that grew those past 24 years is rooted out - we still have objective standards of qualities for numerous genres that are not being met for the purpose of maximizing profit, an history in danger of not being properly preserved, countless anti-consumer practices, mindless consumerism, a parasitic politic, dying legends that saw their reputation tarnished and much more.
Thanfully we have the resistance of the video game industry against these problems, and maintain a standard for good games being made to counter the current state of video games and spreading proper awareness.
10:24 the second nintendo network shuts down
I was going to make a comment about scientific inaccuracy but this is, of course, fiction, and also that this could very well be explained by some magical power coming from Majora.
N64 atmosphere is so much better than 3ds idk why they had to go and make the moon look all mad, having it look like it’s in pain is way more fitting
The swordman hiding in that back room is just hilarious
Since before that he was insisting he was gonna cut the moon to pieces.
@@shadowstarz3651 Reminds me of atheists beating their paperv gorilla chests.
@@scintillam_deiwhat
4:13 this is where the fun begins
Thank you for making this video. Out of nowhere I had a curiosity as to how the townspeople were like on day 3 of Majora’s Mask lol.
Am i the only one who time skips all the way to the Final Hours just to watch the Carnival Of Time and the moon descending?
I won't lie: - I would do this.
@@laststopsoon finally i'm not alone
@@Capone306 I mean, it's not your fault! The fact that somehow a carnival of time is happening at the exact moment while a moon is descending onto the earth is truly addicting.
This game really made a impact in my life where i look back on memories and connect some songs w those specific memories, especially, the song of healing
Dude the hi res textures really make it look so much better! I really need to do a playthrough with that at some point.
"Hi res textures" refers to high textures which are also "res textures." I suspect you were trying to type "hi-res textures" with the hyphen. Actually, strike that, I don't suspect that at all. You probably don't know how to use the hyphen. But I'm just pointing out that that's the correct spelling.
I don’t know what’s more scarier Meteor from Final Fantasy VII or The Moon in Majora’s Mask
At least the Meteor didn’t have a creepy as face
The moon
I don't like your wrong use of the comparative "more scarier" (the correct form is simply "scarier" without the "more"), but the by far worse transgression is your ommission of the colon after it. You can't simply join your two sentences without any punctuation like that; it's actually illegal.
Me playing this while the e shop closes
Instant goosebumps on the first chime
Bro how many lives they could take apart, cause link just save one chronology... How much times we go to the past as Link 💀💀💀
How does it look hd
Probaly optimized by the Emulator graphic settings
@@warrockneurd It is a HD texture pack made by the UA-camr known as Nerrel, HD in this sense just means high-res as in the textures have been entirely redone to look good on higher resolutions and be faithful to the game and sometimes even the box art when possible
boyyyy this shit used to have me pissin my pants as a kid😂 i couldn't even play the damn game lmao
minor inconvenience
How were the creators thinking this game was for KIDS?
Yeah it's about some moon killing everyone
@@Meandpigeoncoolio very family friendly...
What wouldve been absolutely terrifying is if enemies refused to fight during the final hours.
Accepting a quicker death
Me when I see the moon in the sky: WE ARE DONE FOR!!!!!!
“You’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you”
"Is there something on my face? Is there booger in my nose?" -The Moon, coming closer
When the bells starts ringing faster, I got anxious.
Theres just something so wild about everyone else cowering or grimly accepting their fates and Mutoh standing in the town square in defiance and denial just yelling at the moon thats going to kill him.
He may he an ignoramus, but at least he was gonna go out on his own terms like a man.
The dread that was losslessly portrayed to children who played this must have been unforgettable.
The way every character reacts to the death that will soon take them, whether they accept it or not, feels so REAL.
And this game was RUSHED, by the way.
no matter what you do, where you are, what form you take, there is NOTHING you can do by yourself to even hope to survive the terminian apocalypse.
you could be hiding in a fallout shelter (like the ocean spider house) or take the form of a physical god, and you will still die.
the only safe haven in termina is inside the clock tower, but that's only because time STOPS for whoever is inside the tower.
in fact, go see the mask salseman at 5am on the final day. time will still be frozen inside the clock tower, the final hours music remains unchanged.
and the mask salesman says you have literally *no* time left. but as long as you're inside the clock tower, time will not advance.
So you've got two choices.
Accept death at the hands of the moon, or...
Starve inside the clock tower, eating the only other human in there for sustenance.
@@Christopher01906 i mean if it werent for the song of time we would be literally fucked.
There is a guy that takes one of the spider houses as refuge. I don't think he would have made it staying underground. It's the guy that was the first in Clock Town to notice the moon. If I can remember, it was after completing the lakeside spider house. After that, anytime talking to him is just the guy counting down the time left.
@@Joe_334 when i said "you could be hiding in a fallout shelter" i was specifically referring to that guy
“You’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you?”
When i played this game waaaay back in the day, I was a fresh jizz stain that barely knew games from reality.
When i got to this point in the game...I had the most intense sense of dread & despair i ever felt in my life.
Then impact...
That fvcking impact gave me nightmares...me screaming in a mortal agony as that blast wave engulfed me like it did Link...
Some of the worst nightmares i ever had.
Havent played it in...come to think of it, i dont think i ever touched the game again after that...
Still gives me the willies to this day when i hear the pace of those bells begin to pick up.... And im fvcking 29 lmao
Overcome your fear.
@@Christopher01906man leave him alone
@@Christopher01906 I intend to. :)
I intend to find a gamecube, or n64, or whatever it runs on, find the appropriate cartridge/cd, find a crt tv, and beat it. Properly.
Once i have a few hundred bucks to spare. :)
Link, the darkness is coming. You need to run.
holy cow, thank you guys for 39 thousand views.
edit: 51 thousand.
..e-eighty 6 thousand.
87 thousand now
143k now xD
alot of ppl coming
This would be unbelievably horrifying if this actually happened irl
"as we all shall greet in the morning"
This music probably terrified many people in childhood
It looks like it's the end of the world.
It is.
I prefer this video over the the instrumental because i can here the gameplay. All the life thats about to be obliterated by the moon. The track screams doom for all living under the moon
4:12 Comienzan las horas finales
its just sad to hear the bells progressively ring faster and faster
8/5 & 8/9/45, 3 days between the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Sense of impeding doom. Starts with a moon tear, ends with the moon itself.
The fog is comming
Thank you for finding the moon! But I wish you hadn't...
bro we experienced the end of the world in HD
If you rearrange a deck of cards enough times, then statistically it will eventually be in its original formation. Due to the fact that time is infinite, the same goes for the particles in your brain. There is a higher chance of your brain briefly forming in a void complete with memories of living than there is of you actually existing on earth. The only thing you can be sure of is the existence of your own mind. If you are reading this, you are likely the only real consciousness to have ever existed in the entire universe. You are alone. Nothing is real. This theory is called the Boltzmann Brain.
I wanted to sleep tonight :(
Huh cool
I don’t like this
@@liammq9548 typicall no consciousness behaviour
@@kamilozo776 I am the typical?
the beginning of the final hours music sounds like angles crying
That sound in particular is from a sample pack called "Spectrasonic Distorted Reality", and the track is "ICELAND 1". Koji Kondo is not only the master of composing, he also knows the art of sampling pretty damn well. A masterpiece.
@@zurkke yeah man
Which model is creepier? The N64 or The 3DS?
3ds remake is great but part of me misses the extremely normal blue morning sky at the end. the contrast is so creepy
Me encantan los colores de este juego.
This gave me a sudden fear that the moon could crash into the earth at any moment. I don't care if it won't be able to touch the surface, I'm still traumatized.
*waiting for the song*
this happened to my buddy Eric
"you've met a terrible fate haven't you"
F in the chat for the Bell man.
I suffered childhood ptsd from this moon it creepy
I wish someone did a hack of this game where the moon falls from the sky from day one of the seven day cycle instead of the 3 Day cycle. Naturally it would still be three days total but this way it would seem like the moon falls faster. If it's more mathematically feasible use a Six-Day fall cycle instead of 7. Once the final moments are upon Link he can use the song of inverted time to slow the moon's fall. This would give that song critical function and would aid the Giants as they catch the Moon.
Oh this is the music used for the whole qubo finale hoax
Wow poor Link… he witnessed the end. 😞