The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is a direct sequel to Ocarina of Time, it utilizes the same engine and visual style as its predecessor. The game retains the traditional elements of Zelda games as well as…

90 27 April 2000

Adventure Puzzle Action Fantasy Horror Open world

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is an adventure developed by Nintendo EAD Software Development Group No.3, released 27 April 2000 on Wii U, Wii, 64DD and Nintendo 64. The main story takes about 23.4 hrs to finish.

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What The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is an adventure game developed by Nintendo EAD Software Development Group No.3 and released in 2000. It was published by Gradiente. It is available on Wii U, Wii, 64DD and Nintendo 64. It runs on Super Mario 64 Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

After the events of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Link departs on his horse Epona in the Lost Woods and is assaulted by an imp named Skull Kid who dons a mysterious mask, accompanied by the fairies Tael and Tatl. Skull Kid turns Link into a small plant-like creature known as Deku Scrub and takes away his horse and his magical ocarina. Shortly afterward, Tatl joins Link and agrees to help him revert to his native form. A meeting with a wandering mask salesman reveals that the Skull Kid is wearing Majora's Mask, an ancient item used in hexing rituals, which calls forth a menacing moon hovering over the land of Termina. Link has exactly three days to find a way to prevent this from…

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, horror and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the The Legend of Zelda series

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is the 19th of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. The next entry was The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons in 2001. Its critic score of 90 is 4 points above the series average of 86. The highest-rated entry is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at 100.

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How it was received

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 88, across 876 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 23.4 hrs.

What it launched against

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask launched on 27 April 2000, within three weeks of Breath of Fire IV, Power Stone 2, Mega Man Legends 2 and Martian Gothic: Unification. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Breath of Fire IV, Power Stone 2, Mega Man Legends 2, Martian Gothic: Unification.

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