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Kids can handle death, though? There are plenty of kids' stories about historical events or the death of a friend/family member/pet/etc. Or it's a fantasy/sci-fi story about a villain who does kill some people but ultimately is defeated in the end. I'd never have the story end with, say, the main character dying to the villain and nothing getting better (children's stories do need to be hopeful), but a lot of things we like to insist are taboo for kids to read about aren't actually going to scar them for life.

I'd argue all of those games handle the topic properly as entertainment targeted at children. Pokemon lets you save the channelers, put Marowak's ghost to rest, and eventually defeat Team Rocket. And some of those ghosts are scary, but your pokemon will protect you and if you manage to catch them you can be friends. OoT and MM tend to either have ghosts with last wishes for you to fulfill so they can pass on or some sort of problem that you can fix by defeating the next/final boss. And MM letting you reset time means that you can always try again to set everything right, even if the swordmaster is hiding in his dojo or Anju's regretting not staying around to wait for Kafei. All of them have dark moments, but you can always make things better.



Good luck with finishing Majora's Mask! I probably won't be around for the stream, but I hope everything goes well.
And yeah, most of the masks in the game have some sort of bonus ability. If you haven't, it's worth finding a list of the masks and their effects to see if there's anything that you want to get. Or just get all of them so you can become Fierce Deity Link and make the final boss fight incredibly easy. xd

I was all excited when FS posted some more gym leader doodles because I thought he'd pop back in here, but he is still absent! Doo doo.

Yeah, I'm glad everything in those games is hopeful still but they really do get dark. Majora's Mask especially. I'm also just a sensitive baby. Watching ridiculous videos such as this one doesn't help though, nor did all that ben drowned stuff.

Thank you! I really like Majora's Mask a lot now, and since I've already collected a bunch of relatively useless masks, I'll probably go all the way and get fierce diety link (he sounds too cool to pass up, anyway).
I'm noticing more flaws in this game than I did in OoT, but the thing is it's also so much more ambitious and interesting than OoT, so I can forgive it.

I just noticed that Zeph has a thing for games with day/night cycles where you shouldn't take time for granted (Majora, Persona, Pikmin).

Genoooooo

Actually, I failed another time before succeeding and got the bottle then. :3

Fishy helped me with the last block/switch puzzle because I'm derp-derp. Especially under that much pressure omg

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