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Majora's Mask 3D: Restored

TL;DR: Majora's Mask 3D made a weird bunch of changes that make it the inferior gameplay experience compared to the N64 version. But now there's Project Restoration, which fixes all of that and more. Try it out! Full story below.

A good while ago, I found Nerrel's video review of MM3D, which asks the question, "Was Majora's Mask 3D a Bad Remake?" In his opinion, yes. The remake fucked up Deku Link's movement and Zora Link's swimming, butchered the boss fights and ice arrows, disabled saving with the Song of Time, weakened the Inverted Song of Time to slowing time to 50% instead of 30% (he forgot to mention this one but it's true), and failed to implement obvious quality of life updates, all the while adding light and color in places that take away from the game's dark atmosphere.

His halfway solution was to make an HD texture pack for the N64 version, which is very, very impressive. He redrew pretty much every texture by hand, but unfortunately couldn't update the models without the game crashing. And at the time of his video, there was already a mod of the game that made a few of those QoL updates. Nerrel admitted that the texture and model work in MM3D is great, and that a mod that fixes all the regressions it made might make it the definitive way to play the game.

At the time, no such mod existed. So I went through the trouble of installing and setting up his texture pack, Majora's Mask HD, on my computer. I played up to the Snowhead Temple before losing steam and getting wrapped up in something else. I was impressed by his hard work, but at the same time, the 20 fps, inconvenience of emulating, lack of motion controls, and awkward juxtaposition of HD textures with N64-quality models made it not quite satisfying to play.

A couple days ago, I finished my most recent playthrough of Ocarina of Time 3D. I was faced with a tough choice. MMHD, or MM3D? That's when I discovered Project Restoration, a fan project to fix the regressions MM3D made while adding QoL features. Link's movement? Fixed. Bosses? Fixed. Songs of Time? Fixed. Transformation masks mapped to the D-Pad? Yes. New button combos with ZL and ZR? Hell yeah. Subsequent cutscenes of playing the Song of Soaring and Elegy of Emptiness? Disabled. Owl statues still saving if you want? You betcha. A whole bunch of other QoL featuers? Oh yeah. I already homebrewed my 3DS, so I downloaded it.

Holy hell, this is great. The lighting and colorfulness is so easy to forgive when you have the best of both worlds. I'm having such a good time right now. And with the way patching games works with Luma, my MM3D cartridge is perfectly safe. If I put it in my other 3DS, the patch isn't there. So yeah, it's been a blast. Playing the way they intended in 2000 with better graphics, controls, and performance. What a time. This is certainly the best way to play Majora's Mask.

they did the hms so so SOOO right in mm3d

bless the artists and modelers

This was something I had done where I managed to get a vector of the Receptionist from Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask into Kakariko Village from Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time appearing as a giantess. I just have had a fascination with this character and often imagine if she would be great as a giantess or seeing her appear alongside a miniaturized version of Link. What do you think the scenario would be?

Real quick - My 3D Zelda ranking from favorite to least favorite:

1. Majora’s Mask

2. Breath of the Wild

3. Wind Waker

4. Skyward Sword

5. Ocarina of Time

I can’t rank Twilight Princess cause I only played it once like, 10 years ago. I’m excited to give it another shot soon!

obsessed w this iwata asks where aonuma briefly describes his bouts of insanity and rage and prophetic nightmares near the end of majora’s mask development

I love you wind waker, I love you salvaging treasure, i love you wind waker (item), I love you Gohma, I love you scene where valoo and the rito save link and tetra, i love you molgera theme, i love you great sea theme, i love you aryll and grandma, i love you tetra, i love you master sword scene, i love you wind waker ganondorf, i love you sea chart, I have mixed feelings on you tingle, i love you ganondorf fight, i love you king daphnes death scene*, i love you wind waker

im watching a speedrun of majoras mask because i love to fall asleep to them and i was trying to think about how you could elaborate or improve the scope of majoras mask but i just really don't think you can. i think majoras mask is a perfect sized game and that elaborating on anything would start to make it feel bloated

I uploaded the culmination of my MM3D Fishing Quest to YouTube, mostly because I wanted to make this thumbnail, but also to have a public resource for anyone who wants to do stupid fishing nonsense in this game. Video description has timestamps for when each fish is caught and more info on strategy and mechanics etc.

Sometimes, when there is a dearth of MM3D fishing-related knowledge on the internet, you have to just go insane for a week and figure shit out yourself. Then post about it on the internet for clout.

Woah, two posts in one day! (I have a lot of free time the next week as I'm stuck at home thanks to a knee injury so expect more than I would usually post!) The Fierce Deity is probably my favourite version of Link in MM3D & the armour in BOTW, so voila. Credits for the pose: http://getdrawings.com/fighting-drawing#fighting-drawing-39.jpg