A Comprehensive Theory of Majora's Mask
“A soldier who has no heart”: understanding the Elegy of Emptiness.
"With a Terrible Fate" takes on the Elegy of Emptiness, inspiration of the infamous "BEN drowned."
"With a Terrible Fate" takes on the Elegy of Emptiness, inspiration of the infamous "BEN drowned."
The payoff for the Salesman's last words, and the place they establish for the player in Termina and beyond, might be bigger than you expect.
In this piece, I analyze Skull Kid as a character, and question whether he ought to be forgiven for his actions.
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.
With the background of Kaepora Gaebora, I take a first pass at sketching a Majoran thesis of free will / determinism.