With a Terrible Fate began as a series of weekly analyses of Majora’s Mask leading up to its 3D remake. That original theory can be found in its entirety here.
I apply the theory developed over the course of the series thus far in an analysis of the iconic line, “You’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you?”
Discussing a Happy New Year, and analyzing the Happy Mask Salesman.
In this post, I take a first pass at articulating the rationale behind my approach to “Majora’s Mask,” and what I am ultimately after with this tack of video game analysis.
Given the analysis I have offered of the Song of Healing, how can we account for the fact that Link cannot use the song to heal Skull Kid / Majora?
A first pass at what Darmani and Mikau can teach us about heroism in Termina.
In the first of three posts about the Song of Healing, I argue that Deku Link offers us unique insight into video games as an aesthetic object.
I model Termina and Link through Buddhist philosophy, and move towards explanations of masks and their Salesman.
With the background of Kaepora Gaebora, I take a first pass at sketching a Majoran thesis of free will / determinism.
“Majora’s Mask” contains a thesis on how groups are marginalized by society. Here, I argue that the ease with which one can miss this game element is precisely what makes its content so impactful.
Many people view video games much more as toys than as serious works of art. In light of this, without dwelling on it too long, I would like to dedicate one post to an attempt to convince the cynic that video games deserve to be taken seriously as aesthetic works.