The Deku butler finding his son is so sad :'(

9:08 No matter how many times you turn back the clock, you can not save everyone. Such a harsh lesson of reality.

Those last few seconds, saria's song ends the game perfectly

I'm not sure why, but games like Majora's Mask where you have to power off the console after reaching the ending, no buttons to take you back to the main menu, have a weirdly special feeling to me. It feels much more satisfying, like "you're done here, your quest is complete. Time to go." It's tough to explain, it hits different

It just hit me. The Happy Mask Salesman says that the masks you have are filled with happiness. But you might've given all of them to the moon children. All but 3, and you aren't guaranteed to have gotten the Fierce Deity Mask. He must specifically be referring to the Deku Mask, the Goron Mask, and the Zora Mask. So then that must mean that the spirits which inhabit those masks are filled with happiness. A good happiness. You healed them with the song of healing, and made them happy by preventing the ones they care about from dying. The Deku Butler, all of the Gorons who Darmani fought for, and Lulu and her children. I'm not sure why I never understood that before, but it really makes this scene stronger for me.

"You guys... you hadn't forgotten about me?" "You still thought of me as a friend?" sums up what I fear the most in real life, that I'd do something to upset or annoy my friends, or worse, thinking that *they* upset, or angered me at first, but then realized that it was actually my fault from the start

Poor deku butler at 9:13 he's crying over that dead tree because it his son

09:14 Breaks my heart every time. I always thought The Deku bulters son, as well as Darmani and Mikau would come back to life in the end, so it was a real shock when Nintendo decided to actually not give us a Hollywood happy ending, and make us realize that some tragedies are inevitable, no matter what we do. Just another reason for why Majora's Mask is my favorite game of all time.

One of the most beautiful endings in game history only if you got all the masks.

10:09 Love the part with Saria's song so much

This ending is bitter sweet with skull kid and link becoming friends then part ways with only a drawing to mark this event

Pamela rushing to her father's arms in 8:14 *still* warms my heart to this day, hands down.

"Whenever there is a meeting, a parting is sure to follow. However that parting need not last forever... Whether a parting be forever or merely for a short time... that is up to you."

THE PART WHEN THE PICTURE OF SKULL KID AND LINK WAS SO HEARTWARMING AND SAD AT THE SAME TIME

When you realize this Link saved the world 2 times and barely anybody knows that. Many years later he is just some random Stalfos that teaches a new hero some cool sword moves.

"Because he is the hero Hyrule deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, we'll forget him, but he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. The last Hyrulian Knight."

8:43 I see the way Anju sticks her hand out we're seeing her through the eyes of Kafei

In the beginning, I always thought the skull kid was the antagonist. As I played further, I realized that he was under the influence of Majora's mask and that we needed to save him.

One of the few games with credits that are worth watching

The part were Link finds that drawing of him and Skull Kid in the Forest makes me sad

2:38 Real-talk, this struck a cord with me. I will always remember this.

When I die, I want to wake up on the dawn of a new day in Clock Town, enjoy the carnival... then hop onto the Mario Kart Rainbow Road (N64) and race to Isle Delfino. Pretty sure that is heaven for me, I sure hope it is!

4:23 My favorite song, out of all of the songs in any Legend of Zelda, is this one.

When Anju walks out wearing the wedding dress I lost it.. I started sobbing mercilessly, which was made worse when the drawing of the Skull Kid and Link on the stump at the end :( such an amazing and powerful story.

The part that got me the most was the deku kid and his dad. 😢

If Link didn't stay for the carnival, then who was playing the main guitar during the Indigo-Go's?

I don't know why but the ending just....just gets me

That tree at the end makes me cry

You know, for doing choices like, getting Anju and Kafei together, you'd think they'd be undone after playing the song of time. But, even if you do go back in time, as long as you have achieved the couple's mask and finished the game, the deed won't be undone. Anju and Kafei still get married. The same goes for all of your actions, Lulu has her voice back, the Deku Princess is saved, the Gorons are okay, all of the deeds are not undone. The reason? Likely the masks themselves. The Happy Maskman said it himself; the masks are filled with happiness. Happiness that cannot even be shattered by temporal interference.

The way they did all this is so powerful. The effect the butler and his deceased son had on me was very powerful. When he first notes that you remind him of his son is the first strike, but he doesn't exactly say that his son died. Then, seeing him there weeping in front of the tree you saw at the beginning, it just all comes right at yeah all at once when you realize that the Deku Mask is his son's spirit and that tree is his deceased son. It's very touching and you can really feel for him.

because no one mentions it: the ending actually changes depending on which mask you don't have. if you're missing any masks then the part of the ending tied to that mask is instead replaced with the mask you're missing rotating in a void.

Adult Kafei confirmed to be Tingle's butt

The first time i saw the deku butler watching that tree, i was like '':O !!!!!! IT WAS HIS SON !!! I was very shocked cuz i couldn't imagine that. FUCK ocarina of time, majoras mask it's the best.

A continuation of Majora's Mask would truly be great. To clarify if Link ever found Navi, I just wish they would actually make it exactly like this because this game owns. :'(

"But, my, you sure have managed to make quite a number of people happy. The masks you have are filled with happiness" This is truly a good happiness." There is something so utterly simple about what he says here that feels transcendent to me. Yes, what you have done here is good. It has made people happy. This happiness is a good happiness. So that we are not like Majora, mocking and manipulating the innocent like the Skull Kid. Playing games with others lives. This is not a good happiness. The way the children on the moon don't really seem to understand what it means to be a human, or a friend. But, instead, that we are offered our time and our help to those who needed it. Even more, we looked deep into the spirit of loss that is present in this world. Those spirits with unfinished work. We help them move on. The masks are not the spirit themselves, and indeed, in a strange way, they are almost like children's toys once again. They become filled with happiness. This is truly a good happiness.

"You know Saria's song! Let's be friends!"

6:59 Romani hair flip! XD

And thus, Termina was saved. Unfortunatly this victory was short lived, when they suffered a complete economic downfall. Some speculate that the leading cause seemed to have been Link using his power of time travel to commit bank fraud.

the very end with skull kid link and the giants carved into the log literally makes me cry every time

Link doesn't need any of those things. He saves the world because that is what he must do, and he knows that no reward matters. Saving the world and making people happy is rewarding enough in itself.

I recently started to feel terrible for Link at the end of this game. After all of the things he did for the land of Termina, Tatl just up and kicked him out. It’s sad to me.

6:31 I REMEMBER! This guard was seriously a stalker!

4:24 the jazz part is so magical and unexpected... it doesn't fit at all but it still fits so perfectly. 5:14 gives Pokemon Gen 4 vibes

10:04 Me: Nononono don't do it don't "the end" me again like you did in Ocarina of Time nonono 10:11-10:19 Me: *falls down and breaks chair*

The wedding part is so beautifully done. The music is heavenly

One of the things I always love is that in the beginning, when you're walking through the woods there's a dense mist surrounding Link and making his journey difficult, but at the end, he raises his head and the mist fades away, allowing sunlight to appear again. It feels like Link has overcome his struggles, and can finally go back home.

6:09 that scene with the running man and the music that goes with it is seriously the cutest thing ever

8:09 Is My Favorite Part Of The Ending And I Just had A little girl so this has me crying every time

Then years later, Link was forgotten and became a spirit and taught his descendant the hidden skills.

This game is full of twists and easter eggs, it is unbelievable!!! We desperately need a remake for 3DS or Wii U!!!

4:40 haha Link's like screw you Tatl I'm enjoying the carnival anyway :D

Me crying heartwarming tears of joy for the entire 8 minutes and then 9:08 is where shit hits the fan! I was bawling! The Deku Butler scene always puts this hard lump in my throat.. its heart crushing!

After so many years, I re-passed the game today. Seeing the butler's sadness over his dead son really got to me, but as soon as I heard the the lost woods theme along with the carved picture, I actually cried. I've never played a game in my life that gave me as much feels as Majora's Mask.

Saria's Song excerpt at the end hints that the Skull Kid is there hidden, that give me chills

I agree with you. Majora's Mask is my favorite game of all time because it's the only one that can actually get you to pity the NPCs.

Well shit, since I didn't do the Kafei and Anju side quest, they never got married... fuck.

I'm pretty sure (s)he's not talking about how the Happy Mask Salesman disappears.(S)He's talking about how right before he disappears, a mask the shape of his face appears on the back of his pack alongside the other masks. It looks like he took off his face as a mask.

Who else agrees that there absolutely must be a sequel to this game? I remember beating this game when I was around 7 or 8, and I always wondered what happened to that Link, the best Link. I would love to see the Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask Link come back in a future game with good graphics. I always thought it would be cool if Termina and Hyrule were in the same game and you could travel to both.

My favorite zelda game

That image at 9:10 just breaks my heart. Out of all the Zelda titles, Majora's Mask has, by far, the most heart and compassion for its characters, and that's why, despite the amazing technical achievements of 'Twilight Princess' and the epic scale of 'Ocarina of Time,' 'Majora' will forever remain my favorite Zelda title.

I wish we could have seen an adult Kafei standing next to Anju. Then, this ending would have been perfect.

This part always reminds me of the end of school and we are out for summer

9:10 man.... brings tears to my eyes. The Butler and his son :'c

Ocarina of time ending made me cry so hard, but majoras mask ending made me cry even harder

Greatest game of all time. This was the game that changed my life because I've never played anything like it. I still don't understand why people say OOT was better, but this game was better in every phase.

This game is super epic I remember I had to buy a expansion pack for my Nintendo 64 just to be able to play the game and I bought the book for it too and in my personal opinion you couldn't beat the game without the strategy guide and I'll give you one example why is because Link obtains a flute and on some missions you need that flute to play certain songs and the game itself doesn't show you the actual buttons/ music notes that you need to play and some songs require a lot of musical notes and there's a lot of task in general where you need the book so if you did beat the game without a strategy guide then you're pretty much a genius

I teared up at the Butler mourning his son, then gave a sad smile at hearing "Saria's Song" played at the treestump.

Link isn't dead, he appears in TP as the hero's shade and it is rumored that he is also an direct ancestor to the TP hero

6:31 The guards watching those girls dancing looks so creepy.

The faries are so adorable when they cuddle :3

At 8:25 I heard the music with earbuds that had only one headphone functional and it sounded low pitched. Actually sounds good once it gets to the opera singing at 8:41.

the ending with the tree trunk and the lost woods theme was amazing

I think Saria's Song has a connection to Termina, or at least the Song of Healing. If you've noticed, the Song of Healing is Saria's Song played backwards.

Such a depressing game, but very enjoyable to play. It's too bad that it is impossible to solve all of the problems in the game due to all the death that occurs before the game begins.

HOLY SHIT, I NEVER NOTICED THAT!!!!! Seriously, that is fucking awesome, that's more or less proof that his appearance as a humble mask salesman is nothing but a disguise. Thanks for pointing that out for me, I've played through Majoras Mask several times, and just recently 100% it, getting every single collectible and heart piece in the game, and still I've never noticed that until you pointed it out for me! Thank you! :D ...Though I can't fathom why someone would see that as a glitch... :/

I saw the entire game to be a bump in the road for Link. He defeats Ganondorf and goes in search of Navi where he soon falls into the land of Termina. The entire 3 day quest for me was all so he could finally go back to finding his friend. Being forced into a strange land so different from his own and having to save it from a terrible evil. Just adding to the reasons why he's the Hero of Time. Just let him go back home.

I just love this ending, the eerie silence with the sounds of birds and water. Then the happy mask salesman just disappears.

The butler and his son made me cry

My Childhood

Sadly, this would be the Hero of Time's last adventure with us before eventually dying. But it would not be the last time we would see him. But that's a story for another time.

From the moment we see the father mourning his dead son and on, I experienced both great happiness and extreme sadness at the same time...

This hits hard when you find out that the land of Termina is only a dream made up by the bored SkullKid!

Proof that Link isn't dead in MM

I agree with you so much. I won't lie, I cried when I finally got Anju and Kafei together. I was so damn happy, and that scene was so touching....

Also, how the fuck did the Deku Butler get back to that point of the game? Remember that the door in Clock Tower closes and stays permanently shut for the rest of the game, locking off that area.

Dawn of a New Day. Best five words ever.

Great credits. Shame the Gorons were left out though.

wow i am just for some reason tearing up about how beautiful this ending credits is.

FINALLY this is explained to me. I just read about this and never noticed this part in the ending. NOW I finally know whose spirit was sealed within this mask. The whole "you remind me of my son" comment makes a hell of a whole lot of sense to me now.

I wish more zelda games were as out of the box and emotionally mature as this one.

An amazing sendoff to the N64. And Paper Mario to cap it off :'-)

Okay, who else noticed at the end when the happy mask salesmen was walking away, you could see something that looked like his head on the back of his bag. It did not have any face either, i think this follows up to the theories that state that is not the salesmen's true form

6:56 dat upside down dog

Those final seconds... ...Skull Kid was rejected by his peers and all the awful things that happened to him during the game. And Link was an actual Hylian and was not going to be welcome in the Forest without a Fairy. Yet, at the end...they were both Kokiri kids having fun with their instruments and childhoods. It's a beautiful (yet soulcrushing) connection between both Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask.

Best game I ever played. I have played Ocarina time, Banjo Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64, Donkey Kong country, Halo, Conker's bad fur day and more! But I felt so emotional when I beat this game, only few games give me that feeling, COD definitely is not the game I am talking about( in fact it's shit) But the only other game who gave me the feels was FF7, Majora's mask is the best game ever.

Watching the New Year's fireworks brought this song to my mind, and I had to come listen to it. :) Happy New Year! (And Happy New Day too? :) )

They had to twist the knife with Saria's song at the end didn't they.

“You have the same smell as the fairy kid who taught me that song in the woods”

I love the song the Indigo-gos play. So jazzy. I wish I could figure out how to play it.

Masterpiece of a game just like OOT. But I do not like how the Happy Mask Salesman and Tatl never gave Link a proper thank you despite all he had done to save Termina. At least Skull Kid remembered him.