Majora's Mask is one of the darkest games in the Zelda series, dealing with themes such as loss, inevitability, and trauma. Its adult narrative themes are one of the many reasons why Majora's Mask is a fan-favorite release in the longstanding series. Those who find the official Majora's Mask releases to be visually outdated can now improve the game with an HD texture pack from artist and YouTuber, Nerrel.
In a deep-dive, the creator explains how PC players can install and tweak their copy of the game using an N64 emulator, introducing high-definition graphics and making the game look more like a modern release. As well as the texture pack, Nerrel's in-depth tutorial also recommends and explains patches for new quality-of-life updates, including the ability to cycle arrow types while aiming, move blocks faster, and put the game's masks on the D-Pad, which gives players seven usable items at once.
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Bryan McCarty - January 19, 0. Load more. After, double click the citra-setup-windows. A ROM is essentially a virtual version of the game that needs to be loaded into the emulator.
Navigate to the downloaded. The game will now run on the emulator and you can play the game freely. Until you've used it in action it's hard to appreciate just how good it is, but Link can dodge, feint, probe for weaknesses, defend and dart in for devastating effect against multiple opponents, without the action ever becoming confusing. Even the inventory system is ingenious, with no need to keep stopping the game to switch between items.
Using the objects that Link collects is simplicity itself. On the Select Item subscreen, move the cursor over an item, push whichever C button you want to assign it to, and that's it. Back in the game, every time you push that C button the item will be used, be it a weapon, a magical spell or a fish in a bottle. Once Link gets out into the big wide world, the game becomes a mixture of combat, exploration, character interaction and puzzles.
Hyrule is vast, but is laid out in such a way that players don't have to spend hours slogging back and forth between areas. It's usually made clear where Link needs to go next, and if you forget, the in-game map helpfully puts up flashing icons to show places of importance.
Later in the game, shortcuts become available to cut down still further on travelling time. A few people have been heard to complain about Zelda's lack of support for the Expansion Pak. You know something? It doesn't need it. The game looks gorgeous enough as it is; it's hard to see how banging in a few extra pixels on screen could improve matters.
Watching the sun set over Hyrule Castle, battling against the massive bosses, seeing the lengthy expository cut-scenes unfold or just sitting down to go fishing Zelda, unlike most games, goes to great pains to give its characters Minor actors are given typically Nintendo exaggerated facial characteristics to make them stick in the memory the Quasimodo-like gravedigger.
Talon the bog-eyed, sinister-'tached farmhand with ideas above his station and major characters like Zelda, Seria, Ganondorf and Link himself have facial expressions that perfectly emote their feelings. The characterisation helps pull you into the story in a way no videogame has managed before. There are also plenty of delightful comedy moments that help provide relief from the main story.
From Navi banging head-on into a fence in an opening scene, to Goron disco dancing, to fun with chickens, even the most cynical will crack a smile. Because Zelda never takes you out of the game world, unlike FFVII constant stop-start turn-based attacks and CD access, Nintendo's game completely immerses you in the story and gets you involved with what happens to the characters.
I speak from experience. Like most adventure games apart from Holy Magic Century, which took the brave step of not bothering with all that tedious discovering stuff in favour of hour after hour after hour of random monster attacks Zelda has loads of puzzles and problems that have to be solved before Link can progress.
Some of them are straightforward enough -anyone who's ever played Tomb Raider will feel right at home with the sliding block sections. Other parts require more imagination to solve. Some of the puzzles seem impossible to work out at first, until with a mighty slap of the head and a cry of "Duh! If you remember that all the necessary clues and items are available by the time you reach a puzzle, and that for the most part things behave as they do in the real world, you'll get there in the end.
If you ever get stuck, then it's almost certainly your fault for not exploring the vicinity properly. In the whole intensive odd hours play at Nintendo HQ, there was only one time - quite near the start of the game - when Link had to go back to an earlier point to get something he'd missed in order to solve a puzzle. The rest of the time, when you reach a problem, the means of solving it is either a short distance away or already in your grasp - you just have to work out how to use it.
Just as a hint to new players, which won't spoil the game at all, once you've been given the ocarina it's worth going back and finding the person who gave it to you again before you begin the main adventure. It'll save you a walk later on!
Just how big a game is Zelda? In the course of two days at Nintendo of Europe's headquarters, 64 Magazine put in about 22 hours of play. To put this in perspective, it took 12 hours to complete just the first, relatively straightforward part of the adventure, at the end of which Link winds up seven years older.
According to Nintendo, a player who has already completed the game, knows where everything is and how to defeat all the enemies, would take about 40 hours to reach the finish. As well as the main quest to save Hyrule, there are all kinds of smaller missions, challenges and amusing subgames to do on the side.
Some readers gave us stick for saying Banjo-Kazooie was challenging when they finished it in no time. Well, apart from saying that these people should get out more, we can confidently say that it will be quite a while before Zelda gives up all its secrets.
Remember, you need to eat and sleep and stuff like that. Obviously it wouldn't be a proper 64 Magazine review without finding some things to complain about, so here goes; once you've figured out the pattern of a boss's attack you can always beat them without harm; you can't speed up text, only skip it; the targeting system occasionally takes a few tries to lock on; narrow corridors put the camera too close behind Link for comfort; the chirpy music drills into your head like a Cerebral Bore and won't leave.
As far as things wrong with the game go, that's pretty much it. You'll live with them. If you have an N64, buy this game. If you don't have an N64, buy one, then buy this game. That's how good it is. Nintendo's problem now is that they've created a game that's so good, it's hard to see how they can top it.
But then, people said that about Super Mario 64 , and compared to Zelda, Mario is just a demo knocked up in someone's spare time. Even Goldeneye looks a bit anaemic alongside Zelda. With less than 13 months to go, it's a fairly safe bet that nothing more stunning is going to come along before the turn of the millennium.
Even if you're one of those smart-arses who witters on about the millennium not really starting until it still applies. If you don't buy Zelda 64, you're missing out on the game of the century. We flew all the way to Japan to interview Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto in his secret underground train that whisks him around Japan.
No we didn't. We got this from the press release like everyone else. But it's still interesting stuff So, Shiggsy; what do you think is the secret of a great game? Well, I think the most important factor is the correct mixture, ie the weighing of the different elements of a game.
My successful principle bases on a 70 to 30 percent share, that is to say 70 percent of tasks to be performed and the remaining 30 percent of secrets and mysteries to be unveiled and solved by the player. How does Zelda 64 compare to Mario 64? In the creation of Super Mario 64, I was actually the director of the game, this time I am the producer. In Zelda 64, there are actually four directors, responsible for different fields of the game. How many people were cracking away on Zelda?
About persons, the biggest development team ever involved in the creation of a game! Additionally, we closely co-operated with another company to perfect the programming of the adventure.
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