Aah, one of my favorite games ever. Sadly I made a long summary of the whole game but my computer restarts on it's own if i miss an update and i lost 3000 words of love (i was only at the half way point too, so maybe it was TOO long?) . So this time, short and 2000+ words sweet. 45 down, 1955 to go T_T...
So this game is a sequel to the child timeline, if Link beats Ganondorf and returns to his childhood like the official ending of Ocarina of Time. So link goes on young Epona looking for a lost valuable friend, who many consider Navi and a few subtle hints tell us so, in the outskirts of Hyrule. He is ambushed by a skull kid, you know, the duck people from lost woods, and two fairies, Tatl and Tael. Only he's wearing a spiky heart mask with big red-yellow eyes. He steals Epona and the ocarina of time and leaves. You chase after him and fall down a big hole and is turned into a deku scrub. Tatl was too busy messing with you and was left behind. She blames you for some reason and you head to a clock tower and meet an old friend, the happy mask salesman. HMS says he saw the whole thing and can turn you back if you get your belongings and his mask back within 3 days before he "leaves town".
Now I will give you the sum of the whole game so prepare for spoilers!
Now you may notice two weird things in Termina. For 1, everyone you know is here, but don't know you, have different jobs names and personalities, and 2nd, why is the moon out at the day, doesn't move, has a creepy face and is getting BIGGER!? I mean sweet christmas... this is already making me doubt the people who made this game rated E10+. So we do errands like fix the abomination known as the great fairy, gain trust of the bombers, and witness some things like a dispute over the moon supposedly falling (sweet christmas anything but that freaky moon) a robbery, an inn keeper Anju getting a letter from a lost friend, and the moon shooting a rock from it's eye, we'll be needing that. On the final six hours (or six minutes i should say) give the moon tear to a deku scrub near the tower in south clock town and parachute to your first piece of heart and the skull kid. Apparently he's caused not only drastic pranks around Termina, but is responsible for putting the moon on a collision course to earth and is probably why it has a face like that . Tael will say something about a swamp, mountain, ocean, and valley before getting slapped by skull kid. So use the power the great fairy gave you of shooting snot bubbles and knock the ocarina out of skull kids hand. Then you will remember the song of time and turn the ocarina into deku pipes to play the song and go back to the beginning of the 3 days.
Talk to HMS and he will be overjoyed you got the ocarina back and teach you a song to play on the ocarina. The song turns the spirit of the deku curse into a mask you can use to turn into a deku and back anytime you want. He will however lose it when he learns you couldn't get skull kid's mask back. He explains the mask, Majora's Mask, was used in ancient hexing rituals and was sealed away so it wouldn't use it's dark powers. HMS sensed it would be used again and tried with all his might to secure the mask, but then he was mugged by skull kid. So he begs you to help him save the world. To do this you need to go to the 4 corners of Termina and unleash the power of the red giants and use the oath to order (great song btw) to get them to push the moon back. No pressure on a little kid, right?
So along the way you will find the witches of Twinrova, but they now make potions and serve as tour guides, as well as give you your'e first bottle to help the one another. The deku palace isn't open to humans, and deku's need buisness as well, but you can enter to watch monkey punishment. After sneaking into the cage you find out the princess was kidnapped and they think it was him. So you go to the swamp temple and stop the monster Odwala and free the princess who then takes it out on her dad for being so rash and stupid. You also can summon the first giant, but it won't do you any good without the other 3.
With the bow from the first temple you can go north, and you soon learn it should be spring but the mountain is freezing cold. You meet up with the owl (you met him on you're way to the first temple and termina owl is actually more helpful and knows the meaning of personal space) who shows you some invisible platforms that lead to the lens of truth. With them you see the spirit of Darmani who was killed in an attempt to save his people from the cold.(it was all biggorons fault) To cure his soul play the song of healing and he will become a mask to lend his power to you. As a goron you can roll and have extra strength. While testing your'e new punch you see the goron elder frozen in ice. You go get hot spring water to melt him and he sees you as Darmani and teaches you part of the gorons lullabye to play to his crying son on the goron drums. The son in turn teaches you the rest and you can use the song to put the sneezing biggoron to sleep so you can pass and NOT die like Darmani did. At the end of the mountain you race against Goht, a giant mechanical goat what else? After ramming his butt a few times he dies and you awaken not only the giant of the mountains, but the spring that was meant to come.
Next up you need to talk to medigoron, not a normal size goron but not as big as biggoron. He tests you on powder keg usage and lets you use them elsewhere. You can open Romani Ranch if it isn't already open and Malon AKA Romani now isn't looking good. Go back and she will be fine, but say aliens will come at 1:30. So help her out with that and be sure to use the song of reverse time or else you will have to deal with so many fast aliens. If you keep them away from the barn till' morning you will get a bottle of milk and forever be able to summon Epona again, but you could anyways without saving the ranch... but if you don't... *shiver*.
So now you can go west to the ocean and find a dying zora named Mikau. He's dying, but that won't stop him from giving you a guitar solo explanation. Skull kid told Gerudo pirates they could sell the eggs of zora's for a high price. They took the eggs of the singer of the band Mikau is in, Lulu, and she lost her voice without them. He went to get them back but didn't have the warrior instincts to save them from the pirates. Then he dies, so play the song of healing and turn him into a mask after witnessing the saddest moment in any game EVER. <-period. Then watch in horror as you become a zora GAAAAAH. So you can swim and use Mikau's elbow blades as weapons and boomerangs. So go find out how to get to their fortress and get the eggs back as well as a hookshot. Now Lulu gets her voice back and summons a turtle to take you to the water temple, and we all know what goes on in water temples. So after dying a few times you get to the end to fight the monster fish Gyorg. Geeeooorrg is one of the most annoying, worst bosses ever for the worst temples ever. No cedes agua. Anyways you unleash giant number 3 and can use the hookshot to go to the final area.
Ikana canyon is filled with undead monsters. Use the hook shot to get to the next area where a girl is locking a house. Of course it's unusual since every house in LoZ should be unlocked, so cause some "ruckus" (won't tell you what kind) and lure her out and run inside. The carnival music is very happy, which makes sense since a mummy is inside and wants your brains. If you attack him, the girl will stop you and force you to leave. She seems attached to that monster, so try going in again and play you know what. You know? The song? For troubled spirits? ...seriously? We play it all the time? It's the song of Majora's Mask! Freaking song of healing! So turns out it was the girls father the Ikana scientist and he and the daughter have a touching moment... so beautiful T_T. He drops the gibdo mask that let's you talk to the mummified redeads. If you wear it in front of zombie redeads they dance! So there go the deadliest enemies in the game. Go through gibdo well and into the final temple.
You meet the stalfo generals who you need to beat. They become impressed and say skull kid angered the spirits causing them to haunt the canyon. They teach you a song whose name I forgot, involves emptiness, and you can use it to make a be... er, a decoy copy of you... that isn't creepy at all. No ben... err, what are we talking about? Oh right! you get the giants mask that can only be used in the boss of the dungeon, the giant worm Twinmold. Cut him down to size and unleash the final giant. You can finally teach old creepy face a lesson.
At the top of the tower play oath to order now and all 4 giants come to hold up the moon. This time they succeed toghether and skull kid is stopped, but turns out skull kid was an innocent lonely boy. Sure he mugged the mask salesman, but that was for self survival, all these mean pranks were skull kid's desire of fun corrupted by the mask. The mask ejects from skull kids face and uses the moon to attempt to destroy all in a last ditch effort. So go into the moon and stop Majora once and for all.
The inside must be an awful gruesom twisted version of Majora's sick inten... wow, it's pretty nice up here. You'll see 5 kids who look like the HMS. 4 are playing and have masks of the remains of the 4 bosses you faced, each will ask you for non transformation masks and the one in the middle is alone and wears Majora's Mask. This represents the skull kid abandoned by the giants, his friends, and being alone. So now talk to the 4 playing and give them your non transformation masks, as many as you obtained (give them all the possible masks for a reward). They will give you trials for each of you're 4 forms. Then face Majora. She has 3 forms, first being a mask with tentacles (how did she get on skull kids face ), then she grows arms and legs and prances around like a sissy, finally she gains more muscular mass and gets a head and tentacle whips. Beat her and get the satisfaction of her disintegrating and call it a 3rd day.
The skull kid is happy that the giants still found him as their friend no matter how far away they were. (2000 words yes! ) Tatl and Tael are together again and HMS takes the mask and vanishes. Skull kid says you smell like a boy who taught him a song in the woods, meaning he could be the same skull kid you met in lost woods or he met a possible terminian counter part. Eighter way Link goes off in search of Navi again promising to return one day. That whole thing right now? Just the story line. Still have some work to do...=_=
Now the graphics are actually good for the N64. The draw distance can be kind of bad and sometimes animations change in 1 or 2 frames, like the happy mask salesman freaking out between angry, scared, sad, begging, and glad. Still, it gets a 9 for it's time.
Speaking of time, you have 72 hours before the moon falls, giving you a measly minute per hour. If you play the song of reverse time right away you get 216 minutes instead which is more than 3 1/2 hours. However, time moves everywhere as people are living their lives. Like Darkpower508 said, you could be in a temple in the first midnight (just an example not saying by midnight you will be in a temple) while an old lady is robbed, Anju is upset because you were supposed to be there 30 minutes ago and goes to the bathroom only to find a hand sticking out of the toilet, Guru-Guru is moping by the laundry pool about his past, and Romani is prepping for an alien invasion you need to help her with in 3 real life minutes. Better play the song of soaring... oh crap I forgot the powder keg. (now switching to another thing about going back in time) oh wait, it's still cold because even though I beat the temple and unleashed the giant I technically didn't beat Goht the boss. At least the entrance has a teleporter to the boss. Oh too late, Romani has been abducted by aliens:/. So yeah.
Like I said there are many masks, 24 to be exact. 3 can transform you, others are for events or to commemorate a special event. If you talk to Guru-Guru after midnight and listen to his story you get the bremen mask, use that to help Grogg's chicks grow and get the bunny hood. Beat the skulltula house, mask of truth. Help Cremia deliver milk, romani mask, and play ballad of the wind fish at the milk bar, circus leader mask. The most complicated is the string of masks from Anju and Kafei's quest.
First talk to Madame Aroma in the mayors office as Link at 10:00, she will think you are her hired detective and give you Kafei's mask as proof you are a detective. Then at 2:00 the postman delivers a note to Anju and he won't tell her where he got it from. Talk to her and get a room key, because even though you don't have a reservation, Link the GORON does and you can steal his room (lol). Then after getting the room key talk to her with Kafei's mask and she will tell you to come to her kitchen at 11:30. She gives you the deets, saying she was supposed to marry kafei before the carnival but he disappeared. She gives you a letter which you must put in a nearby mailbox before 9:00. At 3:00 wait at the laundry pool and when the mail man comes he will ring a bell and a boy with a keaton mask will come out. Go inside the door he came out to find out he's really Kafei and skullsy turned him into a kid. He asks for you're help because his sun mask was stolen and he needs to give it to Anju to join the moon mask. He gives you a pendant for Anju and you give it to her right away asap. She will promise to stay in clock town now. Now to get the sun mask. Kafei's place is right behind the curiosity shop. As long as you didn't save the old lady the thief Sakon will give the curiosity shop the bomb bag. At 12:30 AM this happens, and at 1:00 PM Kafei will give you the keaton mask and a delivery for his mom Madame Aroma. Before that wait for Kafei at Sakons hideout in Ikana canyon and wait till 6, then solve a bunch of puzzles as both link AND Kafei to get the sun mask. Give the package to the postman and he delivers it to the bar. Now use the romani mask, you DID get it right? o_e well forget the bottle, just wait outside for the post man to come out and he gives you his hat. Yay! Deputy mailman! So finally, wait with Anju in the room upstairs in the inn that is for employees only and wait with Anju. You need to make it close, Kafei comes with 1:30 left till a game over. They reunite, give you the couples mask, and wait to die toghether. So, beautiful T_T. Now let me just... breath a little...
The music is just wonderful, like the song of healing, oath to order, and ikana canyon song. I like the mood each song represents. In day 1 clock town sounds happy as they are getting ready for the carnival. But no one is coming? Day 2 takes not of this as the music sounds a bit awkward as it's apparent something's up. Literally. By the final day as the moon is dangerously close we get a fast pace of the happy music from the first day, but in the back score is a DUN DUN DUN DUN that represents the upcoming doom. Then, it doesn't matter where you are, the last 6 hours music or "final hours" will play wherever you are in termina. It's sad, has that hopeless "it's all over" feel, and all the while you hear the clock tower bell chimes as it signals the coming of the carnival, however it makes you feel worse. Makes you forget you still have 18 minutes with the slowed time, you just want to go back to the first day NOW. The music is incredible and gets a 9.
I'm pretty sure you get the difficulty by now, due to the timer and being a Legend of Zelda game. Combine the 2 and holy crap this isn't gonna be an easy one. You have puzzles while fighting monsters and you have to start over if killed and the clock is ticking. You don't have 3 days to do one thing, soon you need to do this and that, so you better be quick or else.
Finally let's talk about something that isn't in the ranking system, a little something I call "emotional output". First you are like "yeah LoZ!" then "OMG I'ma plant!""the moon is scary!""I don't have enough time!". This caused many a people to say"screw it, I'm done. Ocarina of Time is better."but if you just give it a chance you realize this game changes how you feel a great game should be. It's great game play combined with a huge story behind the mask, literally! You save a princess, a mountain side, a ranch, a rock band, some eggs, a father and his daughter. You feel accomplished with what you have done, but then the moon gets closer and closer and you must start time over. All the stuff you did never happened. The old lady will be mugged, aliens will come again, the poor monkey... This game gave you superiority and then just ripped it away from you. These computer programs become more to you, you're friends, and you have to let them down again and again because you can't be in 3 places at once or teleport somewhere other than an owl statue. This game needs a 15/10 in terms of this hidden category, but still the overall score is 9.5 I guess. Thank you if you read all this, this has been the dealeo with Mecha Leo, hope you can see my next review.

Nice job on this review, this is perhaps the longest game review I have ever seen, at nearly 3, 400 words, that is really impressive! Good job on this achievement man, you put a ton of detail into making this and I think it definitely payed off!

I will say though, I think this would be better if you spaced it out a little more because it is a little hard to read at times, but other than that you did an amazing job on this, you are very in depth and detailed about the game and you go through it step by step which is great. Just space it out a bit more so it is easier to read and I think this review will be perfect.

Keep up the awesome work with making reviews because you are really good at it! I look forward to reading your next one!