5 Reasons Why The Legend Of Zelda: Majora’s Mask Is The Best Legend Of Zelda Ever

Majora’s Mask raises surprisingly existential questions geared toward the player throughout the game. The game focuses on collecting, using, and trading masks. Certain situations paired with certain mask combinations elicit different responses from the inhabitants of Termina.

Some of the masks even physically change Link into a look-a-like of the different races of Termina. The game flirts with the idea that we as humans don different “masks” during different situations in order to save face or even to get something that we need.

The Lunar Children at the end of the game pose some of the most existential-crisis inducing questions in relation to this, such as: “Your true face… What kind of… face is it? I wonder… The face under the mask… Is that… your true face?” The player gets indoctrinated throughout the game to wear these masks in order to progress, but is wearing these masks and evoking responses from the characters really the right thing to do?

Just because it seems like Link is doing the right thing, does that mean it is actually beneficial to all?

Has Link, or even the player, lost who they were throughout their adventure due to constantly playing and using different roles? Majora’s Mask dives into this fourth-wall breaking avenue of gaming in a way that other Zeldas wouldn’t dare touch, and because of this, the game stands above the rest in terms of takeaway value.