re: What is so good about Majora's Mask?

The reason I love the game is that it is the most apocalyptic and debatably darkest game of all time. I know many of you are thinking Resident Evil, Bioshock, Doom, etc as the candidates for darkest game ever, but shite has really already hit the fan in most of those games. It hasn't happened yet in Majora's Mask, and these people whose lives have been ruined by Majora and slowly realize that they are all going to die. And you watch this repeatably and are mostly helpless to help these people until closer to the end of the game. The game is uncomfortable and restraining, but it's designed to be such so you can understand what the characters are really going through and bond with them.

Plus Majora is probably the most effective antagonist of all time. His plan is perfect, save for one thing: a boy with a time machine comes from another dimension to stop him; he could not have accounted for this. Plus he's a sadist to such a degree that even the Joker would blush. Thinking of everything he does, I can't think of a video game villain with a more horrifying resume.

In short, Majora's Mask is the Groundhogs Day and Empire Strikes Back of video games. It never tries to be Ocarina and does something completely different. That was off putting to some, but I personally loved it, and I can say it's comfortably my favorite video game of all time.

But here was my idea that I typed a few years ago if they were to remake Majora's Mask for a home console, feel free to take a read: LINK