Majora's Mask vs. Lightning Returns
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Neither of them are particularly good, either.
Asides from that End of the World theme, there isn't really anything to connect them at all; the combat styles are totally different, the story unfolds differently, etc. I get the baseline for comparison, but it's like comparing Skyrim with Xenoblade Chronicles X because both have a massive open world...
Asides from that End of the World theme, there isn't really anything to connect them at all; the combat styles are totally different, the story unfolds differently, etc. I get the baseline for comparison, but it's like comparing Skyrim with Xenoblade Chronicles X because both have a massive open world...
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Love 'em both.
Majora's Mask is better designed, though, no question. I suppose this comes from the fact that pretty much all of the quests in Majora's Mask have an effect and you can't save everyone, while in Lightning Returns it's based around the opposite idea: you can save everyone. This would be fine if so many of the sidequests weren't simple busy work and you actually cared about the characters affected by them or what their dilemma actually was. Oftentimes you'll just do the sidequests because they're there, but the quest design and the actual dilemmas oftentimes aren't even that interesting.
MM, on the other hand, uses its smaller setting to its advantage and makes it pretty clear that most of the quests have major effects on the people involved and, likewise, you'll likely end up undoing it. So I'd go with MM on that basis alone.
Majora's Mask is better designed, though, no question. I suppose this comes from the fact that pretty much all of the quests in Majora's Mask have an effect and you can't save everyone, while in Lightning Returns it's based around the opposite idea: you can save everyone. This would be fine if so many of the sidequests weren't simple busy work and you actually cared about the characters affected by them or what their dilemma actually was. Oftentimes you'll just do the sidequests because they're there, but the quest design and the actual dilemmas oftentimes aren't even that interesting.
MM, on the other hand, uses its smaller setting to its advantage and makes it pretty clear that most of the quests have major effects on the people involved and, likewise, you'll likely end up undoing it. So I'd go with MM on that basis alone.
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Lightning is cuter than Zelda/Link, Raito-chan wins.
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Never personally played the lighting games, so I can't comment on that. But I don't really see how Majora's Mask could be considered subpar.
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If you don't pick Majora's Mask, pack up and go home. You failed the test. Report to your local Inquisitor for purging due to your extreme heresy.
If you don't pick Majora's Mask, pack up and go home. You failed the test. Report to your local Inquisitor for purging due to your extreme heresy.
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Played a few hours of Lighting Returns and it is one of my all time fav games. Need to play it on my ps3 since I bought it over at my friend's house. So much better than Majora's Mask. Though I fine the N64 Zeldas to be the worst Zeldas. To be those two games were just very boring. Not sure why just did not really connect like I did with other games in the Zelda series. Heck I even enjoy Zelda 2 over the N64 Zeldas and even that was a meh game to me.