Finally, My Inner Need To Collect Things Is Satisfied!

Appreciate a Dragon Day
National Nothing Day
Religious Freedom Day
Haru-No-Yabuiri (Japan)
National Day of Peace (El Salvador)

 

What I love about The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask is how there is a way to make the Final End Boss Of Doom absurdly easy so that you stand there and smack him for three seconds and the game is over.* You don't even have to move. It is not easy to get that privilege, though: it’s a reward for being totally obsessive-compulsive about acquiring everything in the game, but it’s worth it just to be able to laugh maniacally at the pitiful antics of your latest Archenemy.

 

My other favorite thing about that game is how unbelievably dark it is. Not only does it have a giant looming grimacing moon that’s going to destroy the world, it also has mugging, child marriage, child negligence, aliens, death, abusive relationships, money laundering, theft, the kidnapping of unborn children, pirates, ninjas, depression, skulls with bat wings, suicide, more death, voyeurism, and torture. And the entire premise is based on stealing the identities of dead people.

 

Now I’m playing Starfox: Command.  Will Nintendo ever get over its infatuation with the DS stylus?  God knows.


*The secret to the Fierce Deity Mask is to take it with Chateau Romani. Good stuff, that.