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My favorite character so far is the banker. He's this bouncy fellow:

His role in the game is pretty simple at face value; he stores money for you. But after 3 days in the game, the moon crashes into Termina and the world ends. To avoid this, you have to play the Song of Time, which rewinds time back to the start of the first day when you arrive in Termina. Nearly everything resets - you only keep things you have on you. Everyone else forgets your name, etc.

...Except for this guy. He remembers you (despite you sometimes changing appearance radically between talking to him), remembers how much money you have, and can give you your money back.

He's a fixed point! He's immune to time! He's a stunning tribute to the power of economics. Also, this guy surely knows the world is going to end. I think he could be the real hero of time and somehow leverage his magics to save everyone, but he wants to hang out at his bank and get people into banking instead.

Via Flickr

Thanks to everyone who showed up! Here's the vod, if you're into that kind of thing. (Jump to 14 minutes in to see the actual start of gameplay.) We got to the first save point - we're Human Link again, we can control the flow of time, and we're ready to roll.

Majora's Mask has my favorite vibes of any Zelda game. It's spooky, it's weird, it's in a parallel reality, you take on other people's bodies and faces, there are literal space aliens.

But I must confess: I've never actually finished it. I've never even gotten through the first temple. The time loop mechanic was beyond me at like... ~13, when we had it on the gamecube, so I played Ocarina of Time and Windwaker instead.

But I'm older now. I'm wiser. My executive function has improved slightly. I have two monitors, and one of them will have a 2003 IGN Majora's Mask playthrough guide open with the title written in ASCII. And it's October, the spooky month.

It's time. We're doing this. We're beating Majora's Mask.