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How Majora’s Mask Teaches Us to Connect With All of Ourselves
By exploring Majora’s Mask through the lens of ego state therapy, we learn how Link overcomes trauma and outgrows the moniker of "Hero of Time."
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Critical Review: Majora’s Mask Should Terrify You, and This is Why.
A critical discussion of WaTF's most viral article on Majora's Mask.
A Comprehensive Theory of Majora's Mask
Playing the Song of Time: a “Throwback Thursday” analysis.
I play my own "Song of Time" by offering the first of my analyses of "Majora's Mask," which came years before "With a Terrible Fate."
A Comprehensive Theory of Majora's Mask
Why can’t Skull Kid be healed? Part III of III examining the Song of Healing.
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 Comprehensive Theory of Majora's Mask
Majora’s Mask should terrify you, and this is why.
We can easily write off the disturbing undercurrent of "Majora" as a result of aesthetics, but in this post, I want to offer an argument that the horror which pervades the game is much more subtle and existential than that interpretation. I submit that the ultimate reason "Majora's Mask" continues to terrify us is that, as much as we want there to exist an evil for us to conquer, there ultimately exists no evil in the game.