Majora's Mask Secrets

[@Obrulis]

I actually just beat majoras mask for the first time today. It was amazing. Better than ocarina of time imo.

[@SuperLeono69]

Im still trying to do it for years

[@yuncelluz8709]

A true replay-able classic

[@brixs-productions]

Did you use an emulator? I’m wondering where to play Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask

[@Obrulis]

@@brixs-productionsI played it on Switch Online. If you want to use an emulator, Project64 is the best.

[@ChrisZM]

I agree so much, I’ve played both MM and OoT, MM world entire premise is just so much funner and interesting for me, but then again I did play MM before OoT and I replayed it like 10 times so I might be more biased 😭

[@LakituAl]

Miyamoto: oh egads don't give Donkey Kong a shotgun like that! at least make it wood or some shit Also Miyamoto: what if Link had guns

[@MrTheMasterX]

Can't believe MonkeyNess gave us a Majora's Mask BONUS video without even uploading a playthrough of the game. What a gentleman.

[@grinkobaba9226]

Waiting for the DOILUS video for majora’s mask next

[@MonkeyNess]

Anything for the real ones.

[@ayanamiayachanJ]

@@MonkeyNessI have Majora’s Mask for the 3DS but I haven’t played it yet because I’m playing Ocarina of Time and in the Spirit Temple and I’m on the TwinRova fight.

[@AdvancePlays]

Great video. You briefly mentioned Twilight Princess serving as a continuation and final chapter of the Hero of Time's story, which is something I think a lot of fans gloss over or even miss. People get the Ocarina of Time parallels easy enough, because it follows the general format and layout of that game, but the Majora's Mask links are more narrative and thematic so they can fly under the radar a bit. The Hero of Twilight heals not just the Hero of Time but the Twili, who are pretty evidently intended to be the dark tribe who created the Majora's Mask, and allow them to make up for their past misdeeds by assisting Link in defeating the true evil. That ad hoc trilogy in the series is probably my favourite section of the timeline. If you play them as a trilogy, you really see just how easily they flow from one to the other.

[@leargamma4912]

I still think the whole twili-being-the-ancient-tribe thing is a theory. To my knowledge it has yet to be confirmed by the developers

[@chrisbeach423]

WW was released before TP so definitely not a trilogy lol

[@AdvancePlays]

@@chrisbeach423 i suppose that means TWW - PH - ST isn't a trilogy then🤔

[@chrisbeach423]

@@AdvancePlays thats the same Link, there’s plenty of different wats to look at it. The hero of Twilight meeting the hero of Time is cool and all but I don’t consider TP a game in the Hero of Time’s arc.

[@AdvancePlays]

@@chrisbeach423 But the trilogy isn't about a single character, it's about a greater theme of the unstoppable procession of time, regret, death, legacy, and healing. All 3 games comment on these interconnected ideas. The Toon Link trilogy, which in btw Spirit Tracks is a different Link, is about the destruction of an old world and its traditions, and the founding of a new one. It's not just "here's a guy in his first adventure, then the middle one, then the last one"

[@Tanookicatoon]

For the gunpowder thing. It's important to note that a "gun" is classified as a firearm that is a metal tube that is loaded with ammo and fired through combustion. Cannons are guns. But crossbows are not. It's why in countries that have strict gun control allow crossbows. Just thought that would also be neat to know, considering the next fact was about Link's Crossbow training. lol

[@zombiedabs7439]

Nerd

[@GabrielShakkori]

Jerk ​@@zombiedabs7439

[@junjukerv1246]

Bruh​@@zombiedabs7439

[@Hia_SuS]

Majora's Mask is easily my favorite Zelda game because of how distinct it is in the series

[@MonkeyNess]

It's up there, for me! My favorite Zelda is always changing, depending on my mood. Some of my favorites are Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, and Link's Awakening. :)

[@LloydVerner]

Majora's Mask is like my Top 3rd Zelda, first being Windwaker and second being Link's Awakening. The atmosphere, the characters and the mechanic of the 3 day cycle make the game really tense and I love it.

[@ghastler]

The amount of info in this I had never even heard of was seriously impressive to me, good job!

[@MonkeyNess]

My goal with every video is to give people some piece of information they didn't know before! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@TheBreadPirate]

7:45 What the heck, that's so random. DANG. I miss when Zelda games did stuff like that more often.

[@tomdekler9280]

Definitely some stuff I didn't know yet, very nice! I think the big theme from Ocarina of Time returning in this game is kinda tragic. "Good Blood" has a really good video on Ocarina's theme. You spend your childhood getting bullied for not being a "real man" with a fairy companion (kokiri culture is weird), and this theme of being seen as a powerless kid keeps returning. Then you become an adult through sword shenanigans, you save a bunch of sages that all seem to symbolize key milestones of adulthood, and you beat the big scary thing and become the hero you've always drawn yourself to be. And Zelda goes "you're missing 7 years of your life, go back". And it doesn't work. Because Link has speedrun all of these key adult milestones, and he's stripped from the version of himself he always wanted to be. And the only one who remembers that version of him decides to fly off. And then Link gets his nose kicked in several times in quick succession and we call that game Majora's Mask. First off, the game robs him of even the little growth he's had; oh, he's old enough to ride a horse now? I'll be taking that. Remember your childhood bully doing a little breakdance to stop you from going places because you don't have a sword because you're not a MAN? Welcome back! Haha, look, this kid can't get married to the girl he loves because he's a man stuck in a child's body! Why aren't you laughing? Hey, wanna see children ripped away from their parents in Woodfall? Wanna see it happen 3 more times? Wait, you were brought here because your fairy companion had other business and you decided to chase it because you have a parasocial relationship to this symbol of adulthood? Have you met Skull Kid, who has two fairies, is eternally childish and has severe anxiety about his friends leaving him to do other business? How about Tingle, who is 35 and obsessed with when his fairy will come to him? It's all hitting a little bit close to home, innit?

[@theonlystarman]

Nice video!

[@artemis_studios6555]

Also, I love Mom's Hometown theme from Mother 3. Absolutely amazing taste.

[@Royalhanburglar]

This video is exactly up my alley, I hate that it took three months to get recommended to me!!!

[@MonkeyNess]

Better late than never! Hope you stick around! :)

[@Royalhanburglar]

Oh trust me, I subbed within the first minute!!!! Fantastic work ❤❤❤

[@cannonballking7]

Oh boy the Majora's Mask Bonus video!

[@Kevintendo]

I gotta say this was an amazing video! Love your pacing and the little jokes slipped in - not too many but the perfect amount 👌

[@MonkeyNess]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much!

[@3DoublePoint]

Majoras Mask is one of my favorite games on my Nintendo 2DS, i never played on the N64 Console version but i actually really enjoy this game lot so much good memories i been playing. 😌❤

[@leargamma4912]

I reccomend the 64 version if you can give it a try. The bosses are better designed, the inverted song of time gives you more time to work with than in the 3ds version, and best of all: the zora swimming is actually fun

[@Infindox]

Consider playing the original version once. The OoT remake was great on the 3DS, but for some reason they changed things on the MM remake that make it not as fun.

[@nickrov]

You’re like an alternate universe Nintendo Cybershell

[@NintendoRetroChannel]

I enjoyed this as a true childhood player in 2000 now 30

[@GLARebel]

At the end there when you're talking about the burden Link carries with him, I want to point out that the hero of time saved two worlds and no one knows he did it. Hyrule where he's sent back in time erasing everything he went through, and in Termina where because of the time loop to everyone else it just looks like their giant guardian deities saved the town from the moon, not Link. He doesn't even get to enjoy the festival at the end. The hero of time is the saddest Link of them all.

[@queazy03]

In the manga, the beast's armor could grant wishes because he had eaten so many people who wanted to defeat him, that their wills infused into his armor and made it magical. I just thought it was so interesting

[@peet3449]

7:50 if you kill the flying skulls (which I forgot the name) with light arrows, they always drop a purple rupee that counts for 50

[@mcgrewgs]

Isn't the same thing true with like-likes?

[@leargamma4912]

​@@mcgrewgsi think so, but I will need to check. The other enemy this works with are those snowball throwing lumps outside north clocktown at night

[@Dangerdogeyoffical]

Big props to you for putting this video together even without a capture card! The struggles of having to work with what you have are real and you did great!

[@ninjafrog6966]

the funny thing about the stock pot inn rupees is that in the 3ds remake they actually took away the ability to use the zora barrier inside the inn, but if you use the restricted items glitch to put a bomb next to the masks in the lobby, you’ll still get the rupees from them

[@pixywings]

I think the horror and the darkness hidden behind the bright colorful and childish art style is one of the biggest reasons why I love this game so very much! I also knew all of these secrets, but that is probably because I love this game so much and learned everything I could about it.

[@GuyDude-hk8uy]

Complete speculation, but I can imagine that after Skull Kid turns you into the deku scrub, he would use the mask created as a result to mock you by transforming into you. Rather than the mask salesman using the song of healing to transform you back, you would steal the mask of your child/human form back from Skull Kid during the fight atop the tower. Makes sense to me, but again, purely speculation.

[@marcusjackman1487]

Majora's Mask is my childhood. Love it.

[@TempDevil]

Interesting fact about the Ikana River spitting you out at the swamp, there's a Gossip Stone somewhere in Ikana (I forget where, might have been Stone Tower? Idk) that actually tells you as much if you use the Mask of Truth to interact with it.

[@gbjon9044]

This video struck a chord with me ❤

[@CocoHikari583]

You can also get rupees from rolling into the skull kid drawing at the tree by the entrance to southern swamp in termina field.

[@illagevidiot8254]

I had absolutely no idea that the poe price change thing existed.

[@revolverspsychedelicbreakf8747]

Always a great day when Monkeyness uploads. Also I’m in the slight minority who prefers Majora’s Mask over Ocarina of Time. The atmosphere and eeriness that Majora’s Mask gives off is unmatched.

[@gringusgaming]

I kinda just assumed most people thought that it seems kinda obvious

[@BackPalSA]

Just commenting for real, this was a lot of surprising info I didn't actually know. Bravo!

[@MonkeyNess]

Glad you learned something!

[@rkoopa_bro]

Majora’s Mask, Ocarina of Time, Link’s Awakening, A Link To The Past, The Legend Of Zelda 1, Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom… Man, all of the Zelda series is amazing!!! One of my favorite Nintendo series!

[@slime-up9st]

Wow, I thought I knew everything about this game, but you still had a bunch of new info I’ve never seen before!! Id love to see more. Maybe with game footage recorded from a capture card though hahah, it made me a little motion sick watching some of these clips!!

[@MonkeyNess]

Glad you learned some new things! As for how I recorded it, I was trying to go for a stylistic thing, since they're "secrets" I wanted them to look like found footage to kind of evoke that feeling of finding secrets in a game when playing by yourself in the days before the widespread of video game walkthroughs online :)

[@slime-up9st]

@@MonkeyNess that’s really cool! I look forward to your next videos :)

[@megadaddy1995]

I didn't like majora's mask the first time i played it. It was because i was too young and was frustrated by the time mechanics. I didn't know you could slow the clock or that you were supposed to restart the cycle. I also didn't have access to any guildes and my grandma's house didn't have cable or internet 😅 i gave it a second chance as an adult when i bought my 3dsxl and man did i fall in love with it completely! Oot was a breakthrough when it came out but majora's mask was in a whole other ballpark.

[@PartyPugTV]

getting some serious cybershell vibes from this

[@Capt._Cheese_Balls]

That intro is me trying to explain how much I love Majora

[@grinkobaba9226]

The intro was also him trying to explain why he love Majora

[@MonkeyNess]

Nah the intro is watching your average KZbinr trying to explain why they love Majora :P

[@ensuena5461]

@@MonkeyNess you damn monkey!

[@chuganoga1908]

The artist who created the majoras mask manga made it under scarce circumstances. They based the whole thing off of some videos they were shown of Majoras Mask before the game was actually released that’s why there’s a bunch of cut areas and story beats in the manga and why some events play out very differently from the actual game. The manga may not be canon but I think the bonus chapter could be, it atleast fits well with the lore of MM.

[@leargamma4912]

That Zora backflip was something I didn't know was possible with the armor glitch. Which I still don't know how to activate. The bricks outside clocktown though. That one got me good.

[@EpicEric25]

Awesome video. Also pretty cool how earthbound and persona 5 get mentioned for a quick second, I love all three games and majoras mask and earthbound are a few of my favourites

[@MonkeyNess]

If you love EarthBound you’ll love this channel lol

[@artemis_studios6555]

YESSSS IVE ALWAYS WANTED SOMETHING LIKE THIS!!!

[@timlowdon2943]

Majora's Mask is probably one of the most controversial games in the series. Most people who play it don't beat it, but most people who do count it as one of (if not) their favorite Zelda games.

[@matthewgordonpettipas6773]

Majora's Mask is my favorite Zelda game apart from Windwaker. I love the whole Zelda universe but those two games hold a special place in my heart due to childhood and I just enjoy their worlds a bit more than the other games. Ahh, a shot of nostalgia just hit me lol. Sad but sweet at the same time. Growing up sucks

[@hanto6769]

Wait, you're telling me we could've had Link, in the modern future.... WITH A GUN?! WHY WAS THIS SHUT DOWN?! AS SILLY AND DUMB AS IT SOUNDS I PERSONALLY THINK IT WOULD'VE BEEN AMAZING!

[@Trash432]

I was still young when this game came out so I couldn't figure out the 3 day thing and never got far but man the world was amazing I spent so many hours just running around looking at everything. I'll have to mod my 3ds and give this game another try.

[@djinnspalace2119]

i only played the pal version but in that version the other intro scene just plays after you finished watching the first one, so its a second intro (works 100% of the time). that may also be why this convoluted method you mentioned works, by pressing start you skip the first intro, and by going back from the menu you trigger the second intro since you technically already watched the first one.

[@MonkeyNess]

Wonder why it warrants opening the options menu then...

[@solidifiedwatergatherer]

This game is easily in my top 5 even though I don't really talk about it a lot

[@Soberliving]

dude! when i was young i actually did do a school speech about Majoras mask lol

[@demo_venom]

Man i love this game...

[@anomalocarislover7254]

I have an opinion that I think would get me crucified by most Zelda fans, but I think that Majora’s Mask is better than Ocarina of Time in almost every aspect. Better dungeons, better story, transformations, and characters are a few examples

[@cyanamespace]

agreed

[@MonkeyNess]

Not sure this is even much of an unpopular opinion at this point, to be honest. Seems many people like Majora's Mask just as much, if not better than OoT nowadays!

[@anomalocarislover7254]

@@MonkeyNess really? Everybody I’ve told that to disagreed with me, but then again I’m not too deep in the LoZ fandom anyway.

[@AnAverageGoblin]

don't worry, if you posted this 10 years ago the internet would have crucified you. here in the 20s we all agree that Majora's Mask is the better game.

[@leargamma4912]

True. But ocarina of time has better structure, and a design that appeals to far more people and general audiances than majora's mask, as a video game.

[@Kosmicant]

god. how the hell do you not have more subs

[@Sagern17]

I love this game. I remember playing this on the 3D’s so much, it really is great (and terrifying). My favourite part of the game is when Ben drowned…

[@shane7051]

3DS version is objectively inferior to the N64 version

[@leargamma4912]

​@shane7051 very true, despite what many contrarians tell you.

[@idontwantahandlethough]

The mask transition cutscenes scared the absolute shit out of me as a kid

[@Infindox]

​@@leargamma4912actually I think a lot of people prefer the N64 version, I've not met many who say the 3DS one is the best.

[@thurstt9158]

Major mask is how you make a sequel tears of the kingdom is not

[@rainbowmacaroon9189]

The Mask on Blu-Ray?????

[@napkin8920]

ok skull kid was _definitely_ going to turn you into a deku and wear your own face as a mask before stealing epona. metal as fuck

[@Dark-nga]

Just bc of the start. I subscribed. And liked it

[@Jje261YT]

Fuck yeah a new video

[@diegoandreassanchez6922]

Yo this was absolute 🔥🔥🔥

[@diegoandreassanchez6922]

Tiktok algo did me right.

[@EmoURYU]

Those mystery ruppees are prolly a left over from back when it was painted all pretty with spooky looking suns and what not outside 🤔🤔🤔

[@LordZemosa]

I had absolutely no clue that you could repair signs using the song of healing. Nor how it could be done in OoT

[@thurstt9158]

I just found your channel I like that it’s mostly earthbound content 😂

[@skylaninaction]

I was just chilling watching this, nothing crazy but then 13:50 blew my mind I had no idea this manga existed and is very interesting to look at. I assume the traveller is supposed to be the fierce deity?

[@tomdekler9280]

Many people assume this, and it has absolutely no basis in either canon or in the text of the manga.

[@linkspokemon4114]

Link looks like he gets "tentacled" in manga when he turns into a deku shrub!

[@soarrefly]

An incredible game, not sure why people didn't like it when it first released.

[@MonkeyNess]

Was pretty divisive I think because of its substantial increase in difficulty.

[@BackPalSA]

Okay but if this is the Majora's Mask bonus video, where's the Sonic 3 Bonus Video, Cybershell?

[@hashtagzema]

Can someone PLEASE explain to me the joke MonkeyNess is making at 7:28 about the Romani's Mask? Help!! (context, I never played 3DS version of MM - praise God)

[@MonkeyNess]

In the original Japanese version, Romani's Mask allowed you into the "Milk Bar" in Clock Town, and the bar itself is strongly implied to have alcoholic drinks. This was changed in localization to be a more nebulous "Milk Latte."

[@thetophatguyandroid5959]

9:59 totk inspiration

[@jordanvanderkeyl642]

Wait, the zora king from Ocarina was the band leader??

[@aaronr.265]

I wonder if the rocket is a remnant for an initial way to get to the moon?

[@MonkeyNess]

Interesting thought!

[@shelbybayer200]

OoT Link was 10 to 17 He was 10 at the start and he had to sleep for 7 years to be able to weild the Master Sword Making Link after OoT in Majora's Mask is a 17 year old trapped in his Child body

[@Blanketentertainment]

Great video man thx 🎉

[@Map_of_Your_Head]

i have never seen a couple of those rupee spots... that wall one.. what

[@mrdrsirman3168]

Did you know gaming is in shambles

[@Chris-bz2rf]

Shambles!!? Like room!!???

[@bigbluebirb-gp3wz]

11:03 bad day to be a goron

[@aaronyucha182]

I actually found out that at the file screen i only pressed b and it went to the alt intro

[@TRUESEPH]

They’re not crows! They are guay! 😤

[@lordenma4449]

Me trying to explain why zelda mm is the best zelda in history

[@andrewbradimore]

Stone tower temple was tormenting to me especially the Mini Bosses either that or i suck at the game

[@NekroBroly]

Best zelda game and doesn't even mention a triforce,ganon,zelda or even hyrule.

[@MonkeyNess]

Zelda is in it, albeit very briefly!

[@ensuena5461]

Look at the cubes in inverted stone tower temple: Creatures sits on the triforce.

[@CandidaRosa889]

I liked the first thumbnail

[@MonkeyNess]

Same here, just feel the new one better encapsulates what this video discusses.

[@Envy_May]

wait did you just say it's called the ULTRAHAND lol

[@jonathanplooij3666]

thanks for the video

[@onerian8178]

was majora a draconified zonai?

[@MonkeyNess]

No, the manga is not canon.

[@DominoFreakShow]

Great video. Hope you got enough ad revenue to afford a capture card.

[@MonkeyNess]

@@DominoFreakShow lol not using one for this video was a deliberate choice, actually. Wanted it to have that feeling of discovering things in games on your own during old internet days. :)

[@ChaosEnthusiast]

i remember reading the manga

[@jordanvanderkeyl642]

Ultra hand was a Nintendo toy huh?

[@eltiolavara9]

that image with skull kid staring with the young link mask reminds me of the "Let me hear your war cry" video, made me skip a beat ngl also, i should actually play the zelda games!

[@himhim17yearsago77]

Great vid

[@MonkeyNess]

Thank you!

[@loogi_is_die]

Omg pizza crust reference

[@officiaI_95]

Awesome video, could you make more zelda related videos?

[@MonkeyNess]

Not opposed! If I find something else to do I'll certainly try :)

[@officiaI_95]

@@MonkeyNess 👍

[@definitelynotascammer]

How much did termina nag you to make this video?

[@Tanookicatoon]

lol "day koo"

[@MonkeyNess]

Lol yeah that's just how I've always said it

[@GalekC]

Yo I was pretty disappointed by the MM manga back when I first read it online in like 2007 that I don't think I got to the part where the Fierce Deity started playing their drum, huh. Now I kinda wish this was canon what with Majora being an ancient DRAGON of all things

[@ShoHidari]

are you by any chance inspired by the works of mr. cybershell?

[@MonkeyNess]

Check the credits of my second most-recent video ;)

[@Jje261YT]

Sus-ah-me-sauce

[@MonkeyNess]

Da Vinki!?

[@bitterflywing]

guns have been around since the pioneer era but like cars, they weren't very good

[@MonkeyNess]

Yeah pretty obvious oversight on my part lol

[@wearywanderer1912]

Sesami-sasu?

[@2noobsplaying]

Great video. Kiss kiss

[@EepiestChuuya]

Wow this video was useless to me I already knew everything man I can't find any video that tells me new things..

[@grinkobaba9226]

How embarrassing. “Gee, I sure hope somebody got fired for that blun-“

[@wade7714]

This video was good, but you tried to hard to be funny, was a big distraction

[@MonkeyNess]

Just being myself :)