Nintendo released the “new” game, The Legend of Zelda Majora’s Mask 3D, for the 3DS on February 13. With this game, Nintendo continues the trend of just porting already popular titles for the new game system, a practice that has long since run dry.
On October 26, 2000, Nintendo released a game called The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask to be a direct sequel to the massively popular Ocarina of Time video game for the Nintendo 64. The Nintendo 64 was a revolutionary video game machine which changed every aspect of how people played games. The console was the first to feature 3D rendered graphics and had a large library of amazing titles. Some of the once popular games remade for newer consoles include: Super Mario 64, Starfox 64, Ocarina of Time, GoldenEye 64, and many others that were re-mastered, repackaged, and resold as the exact same game with an additional suffix in the name to match the console. And now, Majora’s Mask joins the club of classic games shoved into a new console.
As expected, Majora’s Mask has fully survived the console transfusion as the story and the gameplay are identical on the 3DS as they were on the Nintendo 64. Link, the main character and protagonist of all of the Legend of Zelda video games, still has three days to save the alternate world of Terminus from being crushed by a large and very frightening moon. But, after being cursed by an evil Skull Kid, Link is transformed into a small Deku Scrub and must use the power of mystical masks to save the world and reverse the curse.
There aren’t many new things besides new items and almost insignificant gameplay changes. Besides these, the new/old game boasts the use of the new “C Stick,” a small nub on the New 3DS that controls the camera movements in the game. This nub is not required to play the game though. The gameplay is still smooth but now made smoother by the more powerful graphics card inside the 3DS.
All in all, the re-masked Majora’s Mask will be the same fun it was for those who have played it and a new adventure for those who haven’t. The game is still a classic in its own right, but if you want a new Legend of Zelda game, wait until the latter part of this year when a new game will come out for the Wii U.