The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Coming to Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack Next Week - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 17 February 2022 / 3,069 Views
Nintendo announced the Nintendo 64 game, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, is coming to the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack on Friday, February 25.
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask first released for the Nintendo 64 in April 2000 in Japan and in Fall 2000 in North America and Europe. It was rereleased for the GameCube in 2003 in the The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition.
The Nintendo 64 – Nintendo Switch Online collection launched last fall with many classic games like Super Mario 64, The legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Star Fox 64, and Mario Kart 64. It is part of the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack, which also includes Sega Genesis games and the Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise DLC.
Here is an overview of the game:
It’s a race to stop the moon and save the world! The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask will become available for Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack members on February 25! Upon landing in the mystical world of Termina, Link must embark on an urgent quest to solve the mystery of the moon, save the world from destruction, and find his way back to the peaceful land of Hyrule in just three days! Use the ocarina’s power to manipulate time, and plan your schedule as you solve mind-boggling puzzles and dungeons!
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The 3DS version is better, I could never finish the original but I put over 250 hours into the 3DS version.
The 3DS version has a lot of qol improvements. Gyro aim, an overview over all side quests through a manual you get in the game, which on it's own made it leagues better. Haven't played the original in over 10 years so I can't tell you more than that, it just felt impossible to get through. The only downsides of the 3D version are that jumping on the water as a deku has less momentum which makes it a bit frustrating, swimming fast as a zora consumes your magic meter and the fight against the final boss in the stone tower is a bit drawn out because of the changes. At least I heard the fight is shorter in the original version, I never even got that far.
It's also more pleasing on the eye.
If you never played the original, the 3ds version is probably better for a newcomer. The 3ds version had a huge flaw for me having played the original that I couldn't get over involving the revised save system. I only needed a tiny tweak to love the 3ds remake.
However, if you already have the expansion pack, definitely just play the original. I couldn't possibly recommend buying the 3ds game if you already have access to the N64 game.
I have it on Wii VC and will have it on Switch soon. Just couldn't fully get into it.
Oh ok. Well I'm the wrong person to ask then. I thought you were coming in completely fresh. Kakadu and your opinions might be more similar. I still prefer the original, but I played it when it first launched on N64. I'm likely a little biased. Or else I'm more likely to cut it some slack.
Now we just need Wind Waker and Twilight Princess, and we'll have the complete set of 3-D Zeldas.
These n64 games aged so bad...
That should have been the 3ds version.
awesome. definitely a big reason to pick up the expansion pack.
No, not even close! Nintendo Expansion Pack is a walking disaster, and it's more than just the offering of old N64,snes,genesis,nes games in a paid service, it's the fact that many games run very poorly. This service is terrible.
The games have been running better after each update, but it'll take a long time to fix everything and have me convinced to actually hop in. If Nintendo wants to have this subscription service, fine, but they really should've had the virtual console as a secondary option for those that want to own and play specific games.
Which really could've worked because as Nintendo laid out to investors regarding their long term plan, Nintendo accounts will be tied to everything. So, this would've been the last time you would've had to purchase old games from virtual console, and those game purchases would've carried over to whatever the next gen Switch is. *sigh.....what could've been.
The NES and SNES games have that so I think the N64 games should too.
