It was one of the Nintendo’s greatest games. It ranked ninth in the top sellers list with 3.36 million copies sold worldwide, and was ranked 63rd in Nintendo Power’s list of “Top 200 Games of All Time”, but that was not where the esteem was achieved. In actuality, its predecessor, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, was more popular in terms of copies sold, selling 7.6 million. But The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask was different. It was the game that stirred the pool of controversy.
The game, if you do not already know, is about a young, fairy-guided hero named Link, who, in The Ocarina of Time, was summoned to save Princess Zelda from the Dark Lord Ganondorf. The later game, Majora’s Mask follows these events.
The game begins with Link venturing alone through the Lost Woods on his horse, Epona, sans his fairy guide, Navi. This is considered very dangerous because as children you are explicitly told that if you are to venture into the Lost Woods alone or without your fairy you will be turned into a Stalfos (a skeleton creature)
sans his fairy guide, Navi. This is considered very dangerous because as children you are explicitly told that if you are to venture into the Lost Woods alone or without your fairy you will be turned into a Stalfos (a skeleton creature). ‘
An eerie feeling emerges as Link makes his way around the wooded forest in search of Navi, and almost as soon as the feeling arises, Link is thrown from his horse, and knocked unconscious after two unknown fairies startle his horse. He soon wakes to find a strange masked boy looting his possessions. The boy takes off with Link’s horse and his possessions, and in a desperate attempt to retrieve his things, jumps for the horse’s saddle. Link is then dragged through the woods until the thief makes a sharp turn around a tree, and once again Link is thrown off his horse.
After a few motionless seconds, Link goes after the bandit, discovering that he has rode into a hollowed tree. Rushing through the concavity, Link tumbles into a seemingly never-ending pit.
From this point on the game is said to no longer be based on Link’s reality. The theory is that Link had actually died in the Lost Woods, and the gamer experiences life there after. The evidence of this claim can be very convincing to some, but to others they will merely brush it off, focusing on the literal context of the video game.
Returning to the plot, Link emerges in the town of Termina, and meets the masked bandit, who is identified as Skull Kid. Oddly enough, Link has somehow turned into a small tree creature amidst his plummet into Termina, and is now called a Deku by Skull Kid.
The name “Termina” is derived from the word terminal, meaning causing death or dying. In Termina all of the characters seem to all be trapped inside their own mindset when it comes to the inevitability that the moon will soon fall upon the city. This world is immediately identified as doomed, and everyone, including those who are unaware of the falling moon, are in distress. To further the peculiarness of this world, everyone has their own counterpart except for Link. Why is this?