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Majora's Mask 3D |OT| Remakes are a Nice Thing to Have… Heh, heh

Honest question — someone posted this screen on Miiverse, but I'm not sure how to reach this screen in the game:

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Shiekah Stone, I think.
 

Labrys

Member
Last time I tried Miiverse it crashed while posting the screenshot and I had to reset the game, lost about an hour of progress. I'm kinda wary of it now.
 
I actually have a story of how two of the changes collided to make a really annoying experience. When heading back to the pirates fortress for the stone mask, the new swimming cause me to lose all my magic meter, so then when I got to Shiro I couldn't give him a red potion (no magic = no lens of truth) so I had to warp out of there for some green potion first.

This just happened to me. It made me hate the new swimming even more. Honestly, I'd be willing to call this the perfect remake if it wasn't for that colossal screw up.

Oh, and I'm not a fan of the new Garo Mask. I know it makes more sense story-wise, but it just doesn't look as good. Rule of Cool, Aonuma!

That being said, I'm really enjoying everything else.
 

Mozz-eyes

Banned
Man, for some reason the quest line involving Romani Ranch really stresses me out. I think it's because I never managed to complete it in the original.

Got the bottle reward today, though! Gonna do the delivery later. Also upgraded my sword, too, but due to screwing up the timings I've currently killed Goht about 4/5 times...
 
You know what my only complaint about this remake is?

How empty Clock Town is. I realize that this is partially a limitation of how many characters the N64 could have on the screen at a time, and the fact that Nintendo tried to give every character a story, but in 2015, Clock Town is just bizarrely deserted, even on the first two days, for a town that is supposed to be bustling in preparation for a festival.

It would have been nice if they added some Dekus, Gorons, or Zoras to the town after you cleared their areas, even if they said nothing else than "We've came for the festival!!" or something.
 

Guru-Guru

Banned
Beat MM tonight with all the masks, and almost all the heart containers (I gave up on the Deku Playground, and I am also too lazy to farm up to 5000 rupees). What a game. Just as amazing as I had remembered it being back when I played it for the first time at 10 years old.
 

burgerdog

Member
So I'm reading about the upgraded kokiri sword and I'm going to have to do the second dungeon again. Will it be more or less cleared already or is there a shortcut to the boss?
 

FaintDeftone

Junior Member
Hey guys,

I just finished Woodfall Temple and I'm only rocking four heart containers so far (only collected one piece; the one on the clock tower from the deku saleman).

Before I start making my way over to Snowhead and the Gorons, how many heart pieces and heart containers should I be able to grab before moving on to the next dungeon? Is it a good idea to build up my heart containers before I press on?

Sorry, I never finished MM on the N64 (despite owning it) so I'm curious.
 

GaimeGuy

Volunteer Deputy Campaign Director, Obama for America '16
So I'm reading about the upgraded kokiri sword and I'm going to have to do the second dungeon again. Will it be more or less cleared already or is there a shortcut to the boss?

Once you complete a dungeon once (or rather, once you have its key mask that you get from beating the dungeon), a portal appears at the start of the dungeon every subsequent cycle which takes you to the boss room. :)
 

burgerdog

Member
Once you complete a dungeon once (or rather, once you have its key mask that you get from beating the dungeon), a portal appears at the start of the dungeon every subsequent cycle which takes you to the boss room. :)

Oooh, that's neat. I'm enjoying this game so much more now. I may actually like it more than OoT.
 
Hey guys,

I just finished Woodfall Temple and I'm only rocking four heart containers so far (only collected one piece; the one on the clock tower from the deku saleman).

Before I start making my way over to Snowhead and the Gorons, how many heart pieces and heart containers should I be able to grab before moving on to the next dungeon? Is it a good idea to build up my heart containers before I press on?

Sorry, I never finished MM on the N64 (despite owning it) so I'm curious.
Explore Clock Town to see what you can find! There's plenty of people to talk to who will open up quests and such for you, plus there's mini-games with good heart pieces as rewards.
 
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Deleted member 30609

Unconfirmed Member
Hey guys,

I just finished Woodfall Temple and I'm only rocking four heart containers so far (only collected one piece; the one on the clock tower from the deku saleman).

Before I start making my way over to Snowhead and the Gorons, how many heart pieces and heart containers should I be able to grab before moving on to the next dungeon? Is it a good idea to build up my heart containers before I press on?

Sorry, I never finished MM on the N64 (despite owning it) so I'm curious.

four is fine. If you want to find more, the sheikah stone inside the clock tower gives hints and talking to the Bomber kids around town points you toward potential sidequests.
 
Before going up to the final boss, I decided to do a single (slowed down) cycle and see how much I could do, I'm sure I could have squeezed in some mini-games, but this was my best result (and even then I had a ton of wasted time on Day 3). My goal was to try and have the events shown in the credits match the events of the final cycle (besides the old lady who needs to be mugged in order to for the Kafei/Anju sidequest to work, as well as the stray fairies)

Day 1
-Feed the hungry Goron
-Defeat Goht
-Bow practise/ promise to save ranch from aliens
-Make all the Chickens grow up
-Save Pamela's father from being a zombie (This happens just by beating the temple, but doing it manually means Pamela isn't rude to you afterwards)
-Beat the King of Ikana
-Beat Skull Keeta
-Give Tingle's Father a picture of his son
-Give the witch a red potion
-Defeat Odolwa
-Return the Deku Princess and save the monkey
-Race the Deku Butlet
-Make promise to Anju to see her at night
-Solve the mayor's meeting with the couple mask
-Get the Moon's Tear (all Deku Business stuff is done as well, but spread over several days)
-Beat the Swamp Skulltula House
-Beat the Ocean Skulltula House
-Listen to Guru-guru's problems
-Teach the Rosa Sisters how to dance
-Free Kamaro's soul
-Get Letter from Anju and post it
-Save the ranch from aliens


Day 2
-Promise Gorman to get him milk
-Get all the Zora eggs
-Heal Shiro with a red potion
-Get the fisherman a picture of a pirate
-Reunite the seahorses
-Deliver Gorman his milk
-Teach Evan the song the band will play over the credits
-Enter the Great Bay temple and beat the frog mini boss (no Gyorg yet)
-Listen to Anju's Grandmother (short story)
-Find out about Kafei and give pendant to Anju
-Save the milk delivery
-Play the ballad of the wind fish (fun fact: Gorman's dialog is different if he had his special milk)
-Conduct the frog choir
-Win the Goron Races
-Get Celebrated as the new leader of the Gorons (I didn't even know about this cut scene when I played the game 15 years ago!)


Day 3
-Get Letter to Kafei's mother
-Defeat Gyorg
-Practise with the Zora Band
-Defeat Twinmold
-Let postman deliver Kafei's letter
-Reunite the Clock Town Fairy (Doing the temple ones would be way too much work)
-Get the sun mask back
-Watch Kafei and Anju reunite
-Stop the moon from falling

It was super satisfying and I'd highly recommend it. I'll probably try to redo it later, but shuffling some things around to get more mini games done. I wonder if you could also do the 3 archery challenges, the treasure game and Honey & Darling / Deku Jumping on all three days. THAT would be a fun challenge.

BTW, can anyone think of anything that I missed?

I was wondering if something like this existed! I'm almost through the game. I'll have to give this a shot and see if there is anything that I could add to it.
 

TheMoon

Member
You know what my only complaint about this remake is?

How empty Clock Town is. I realize that this is partially a limitation of how many characters the N64 could have on the screen at a time, and the fact that Nintendo tried to give every character a story, but in 2015, Clock Town is just bizarrely deserted, even on the first two days, for a town that is supposed to be bustling in preparation for a festival.

It would have been nice if they added some Dekus, Gorons, or Zoras to the town after you cleared their areas, even if they said nothing else than "We've came for the festival!!" or something.

It's NOT supposed to be bustling with people. That's the whole point. Go to the mayor's office, listen to the argument there. They bring up the lack of people this year.

How are you taking pics like that? Are you uploading them to miiverse or something?

Yes, he's using Miiverse like everyone else.
 

GaimeGuy

Volunteer Deputy Campaign Director, Obama for America '16
It's NOT supposed to be bustling with people. That's the whole point. Go to the mayor's office, listen to the argument there. They bring up the lack of people this year.



Yes, he's using Miiverse like everyone else.

^ This. Also, by the time Link gets to Termina, a whole bunch of people have already panicked at the sight of an angry moon getting bigger and bigger, and fled to the corners of the Termina world/dimension.

By the day of the festival, the only people remaining in the town are a few shopowners, orphan children with nowhere else to go, and city workers (civil servants, construction workers, postmen)
 

TheMoon

Member
^ This. Also, by the time Link gets to Termina, a whole bunch of people have already panicked at the sight of an angry moon getting bigger and bigger, and fled to the corners of the Termina world/dimension.

By the day of the festival, the only people remaining in the town are a few shopowners, orphan children with nowhere else to go, and city workers (civil servants, construction workers, postmen)

why the plural. he works his butt off 24/7 because he's the only one!
 

Molemitts

Member
I'm so close to 100% all I need is the last bottle then the rest of the stuff is in the final area. Sweet. This is the first Zelda game I've done 100% on, though ALBW came close.
 

Neiteio

Member
You know what my only complaint about this remake is?

How empty Clock Town is. I realize that this is partially a limitation of how many characters the N64 could have on the screen at a time, and the fact that Nintendo tried to give every character a story, but in 2015, Clock Town is just bizarrely deserted, even on the first two days, for a town that is supposed to be bustling in preparation for a festival.

It would have been nice if they added some Dekus, Gorons, or Zoras to the town after you cleared their areas, even if they said nothing else than "We've came for the festival!!" or something.
The game clearly establishes that many people have already fled Clock Town. It's supposed to look abandoned by the time you arrive. Nearly everyone has already left because they're afraid of the falling moon.

Now there are just a handful of the most committed people people left (municipal workers, business owners, etc), and they're debating whether they should stay.

How are you taking pics like that? Are you uploading them to miiverse or something?
Miiverse. When you see something onscreen you want to capture, just hit Home, then Miiverse (takes only a couple seconds to boot up on N3DS), then tap Post, and tap the Screenshot icon. From there, just pull up Miiverse on your PC, log in, and copy/paste the link. I usually upload to abload.de since I'm not sure how long images last on Miiverse. (Although they appear to last forever...)
 

Molemitts

Member
Question about the final area and game saves.
When I get all the heart pieces on The Moon and the Fierce Deity Mask will I have to go and save before fighting Majora or will it save automatically in the ending?
 
So I realized with the Great Bay Boss Fight that you can shoot Ice Arrows anywhere to create a platform. Unlike the other parts of the game where its specific points to shoot at.
 

hiro4

Member
What a ride.
Cleared it 100% (minus the fishes) today.

Probably won't do the fishing. But still what an amazing game.
 

Neiteio

Member
What a ride.
Cleared it 100% (minus the fishes) today.

Probably won't do the fishing. But still what an amazing game.
If you change your mind and decide to give fishing a go, see the very last line in the OP of the fishing thread -- we cracked the code for finding rare fish. I even caught three of the Swamp Fishing Hole's boss fish (complete with boss music) in the same three-day cycle. So much fun! <3
 

Roto13

Member
Who do I give a picture of Lulu to? I thought it was that guy who's creepin' outside of her room, but he just tells me to go away.

EDIT: Oh, it's the other guy. Nevermind.

Only one rumoured event left in my notebook right now. Are there still four heart pieces in the last area?
 
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Deleted member 30609

Unconfirmed Member
is the fishing game required for all the heart pieces?
 

JonnyKong

Member
Managed to get myself outside the entrance to the Stone temple. Will be attempting that bad boy later this week.

Getting up there by playing that song to make a statue of myself, what, nearly ten times whilst I worked out the order to press the switches in, not fun, not fun at all.
 

Revenile

Member
I can't remember who it was, but in one of the MM3D threads someone had mentioned that they removed the triforce from the Stone Tower. I just got there, and it's still there on the movable blocks.

Miiverse post with picture. You might need to zoom in a bit due to the lighting, but it is very much still there, just all the detail added to the blocks makes the "hole" triangle harder to see.
 

Neiteio

Member
Who do I give a picture of Lulu to? I thought it was that guy who's creepin' outside of her room, but he just tells me to go away.

EDIT: Oh, it's the other guy. Nevermind.

Only one rumoured event left in my notebook right now. Are there still four heart pieces in the last area?
Very last area of the game has four Heart Pieces. So the area right before you go to fight the final boss.
 

Roto13

Member
Very last area of the game has four Heart Pieces. So the area right before you go to fight the final boss.

So assuming the heart piece in Ikana Castle is still there, I'm on my way to 100% completing the game.

Aside from fishing. Which sucks.
 

Guru-Guru

Banned
Yeah, fishing blows. Not sure how I enjoyed it back in the day when playing OoT. Thank god it isn't in the Bombers' Notebook, or else I would feel like I have to catch all the fish.
 

Neiteio

Member
So assuming the heart piece in Ikana Castle is still there, I'm on my way to 100% completing the game.

Aside from fishing. Which sucks.
Fishing is the deepest and most nuanced attraction in the game. Also the game's greatest challenge. So it's not for everyone, but that's OK. If you're just aiming to complete the story, it's still a perfectly good time.

And yes, that Heart Piece is still in Ikana Castle. Although that's not the "final area" to which I refer, just to be clear.
 

Kinsei

Banned
Fishing is the deepest and most nuanced attraction in the game. Also the game's greatest challenge. So it's not for everyone, but that's OK. If you're just aiming to complete the story, it's still a perfectly good time.

And yes, that Heart Piece is still in Ikana Castle. Although that's not the "final area" to which I refer, just to be clear.

How would you say it compares to Fishing Resort on the Wii? After playing that I have trouble enjoying fishing in other games.
 

Hobohodo

Member
Not a fan of the changes to Gyorg.

Well the battle itself wasn't an issue but waiting for him to start inhaling was a pain, seemed to be just random. If I could have triggered that somehow wouldn't have had any problems with it really.
 

Neiteio

Member
How would you say it compares to Fishing Resort on the Wii? After playing that I have trouble enjoying fishing in other games.
I haven't played that game, although I was briefly researching it the other day when I saw people recommending it in the other fishing thread.

That reminds me, I saw Josh Thomas play this one on BitBlock's The Fold... A skiing and snowboarding game on the Wii that had similarly cutesy characters. And it looked legitimately excellent. It had a split-screen co-op "free roam" mode in a huge open world with all kinds of events and activities, and you and a friend could freely explore the map, veering off in your own separate directions. The world had amazing scale and atmosphere, like ice fortresses all lit up with colorful lights at night.

I wish I could remember what the game was called, though...
 

Kinsei

Banned
I haven't played that game, though I was researching it the other day when I saw people recommending it in the other fishing thread. Speaking of game's with that style, there's another game I saw Josh Thomas play on The Fold (part of the BitBlock), a skiing and snowboarding game on the Wii that looked fantastic. It had similarly cutesy characters and a split-screen co-op mode in a huge open world with all kinds of events and activities, and you and a friend could freely explore the map together. I wish I could remember what it was called, though.

Are you talking about Go Vacation? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3Q-NeCAAQo

That was really fun too.
 
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