Mindless Juices

Angela, did you notice I changed the sub-title on your link? Josh, it's good to be back. Nick, the nursery looks great! Rae & Curtis, thanks again for dinner the other night. As always, loved the company and the timing of your blessing couldn't have been better. Lastly, I've been playing Zelda: Majora's Mask. I never played Majora's Mask back in the day. It looked dumb. Actually, it looked like Nintendo used all the same graphics to simply make another game, slap the Zelda branding on it and make some more money. Well, they kind of did do that, but they also made a really cool game. It almost feels like they were brainstorming while creating TLoZ:Ocarina of Time and they had a few different ideas... two very good ones... one become OoT and the other became MM. TLoZ:MM has a neat concept. The game happens completely in three game days. I think one real time minute equals one game hour. At the end of three days, the moon crashes into the world and destroys it. You have to stop that, but you only have 72 game hours to do it. WHAT? a 72 minute game?!?! No... remember, you have the Ocarina of Time. You can slow down time, speed up time and even go back in time to the first day. Why would you want to replay the same three days over and over again? Well, because you influence the game. What you do on day 1 affects day 2 and day 2 affects day 3. Plus, you get to keep the masks and treasures with you as you travel back in time to the first day... you just can't keep ammo or money. But, you can bank your money and, lucky for you, the banker writes something on your head to know how much money you have in the bank whenever you make a deposit or withdrawl. So, even when you go back in time, the banker reads your head and tells you your balance. Also, on the three day thing, the citizens of the towns do the same thing every time you reset time. So, perhaps you want to save the old lady from getting mugged? Simply, reset time and stop the thief! So, the bar doesn't open until after dusk, just move time forward and walk on in! You spend three days questing for a mask, then you go back in time and talk to someone on the first day wearing the mask and reap the reward! And, you get a little handy book that helps you keep track of the events in the town and help the townsfolk. Lastly, you've got three days to do the dungeons and side quests. Because resetting time resets the dungeon, you kind of have to do the dungeon within the three days. But, if you slow down time, you have a lot longer than 72 minutes to solve all the puzzles and collect all the things that makes Zelda games GREAT! Try Googling Project64. It's an N64 emulator. With the latest video and audio plug-ins it runs pretty smoothly. Just make sure you have legal copies of those ROMS you plan on playing. :)