Blank’s Mind

No, splits are not *only* caused by severe/extreme trauma. After the disorder is formed your brain will split as it feels is needed. Someone's for stress, sometimes to lessen the load of another trauma holder ect. If you are hyperfixating or watching a show and have strong feelings about a character it's possible that new split or fragment will attach to that characters identity. Stop Fakeclaiming and bring assholes to people who split easily, often, or are fictive heavy. You are only causing harm. Stop fucking Fakeclaiming in general. YOU ARE ONLY CAUSING HARM.

For me, the thing I liked about Majora's Mask as a kid was that it's a game about people. And I think that holds up pretty well. Everyone's part of their own little story going on. The Great Fairies being broken and needing Link's help makes them so much more personable here than in OOT (I also think the more humble design of the fountains helps with that. OOT's you can't even set foot in their water, they're separated from you like that. Regal.)

I do get the "Dark Zelda" thing. It's def a game about facing finality and dealing with regrets. But it's also the first game that really starts toying with the idea of gratitude as an almost supernatural bulwark against despair and malice. Skyward Sword would literalize this with Gratitude Crystals, but here it's in the form of the Mask Salesman telling you "You've made a lot of people very happy."

It's also like very goofy. Of the lost souls you transform into Mikau, the Zora guitarist, is the only one you meet alive. He's mortally wounded and struggles to walk after you drag him to shore. He gives Link his final request before perishing. Link then digs him a grave and buries him on the beach. This would be really fucking heavy, if not for the way Mikau gives Link his request: Standing up and singing it while playing guitar, the voice barks alternating between a loud rock vocal "Oooowwww" and "BABY!" Before he collapses back to the ground. It's genuinely really funny.

That finality the game toys with isn't just mortality. The Anju/Kafei story line plays with that in terms of Crimea dealing with the wedding, while still having romantic feelings for either Kafei or more likely Anju. She is at the wedding in the credits so she's accepted that. When the Mask Salesman bids you adieu he gives a little speech about any time people meet they're now doomed to part, and it's up to you to decide if that parting is forever or not.

The Temples are pretty good. For me, I think Snowhead was the one where I was stumped the most. Great Bay and Stone Tower both seem like they would be bonkers and hard, but are very cleverly designed to keep everything manageable. Great Bay only asks that you can follow the colored pipes, and Stone Tower will do the metroidvania thing of preventing you from backtracking in at least one section until you've solved the puzzle.

I really liked getting the temple fairies. I also really liked the Spider Houses. But I do miss the gold skutulla hunt on the overworld. Majora's Mask really doesn't have a whole lot of reason to go grotto hunting. I think there's like one or two bomb grottos in the whole game, and there's really nothing inside. Having some like poes or something to hunt to encourage seeking out those weird little corners would have been nice.

Rapid Fire Round

The razor sword is iconic, shame it has the 100 use limit, because that just discourages you from using it, and encourages going straight to the less iconic but mechanically better gilded sword.

Why is everyone in Great Bay a pervert?

I like that there is one peahat and one skullwalltula in the entire game. That's very silly.

I haven't played the 3DS remake, but I've heard of some of the changes and, dawg, I'm not really on board. I hate eye weak points if they don't make sense. Zora Link's swimming is so good why would you ruin it, you already need so much magic in this game. Like you might actually buy a green potion in this game. Why would you tie zora swimming to the magic meter. Horrible.

On the plus side having granular control to prevent having to wait for stores to open would be good actually.

Dampé, my beloved, please I'm like 1 ft in front of you stop wandering off.

Wizzrobe in this game is an abbreviated Phantom Ganon and I wish they didn't use him like 6 different times.