The game runs on a fixed three-day cycle, which can be slowed down or sped up, but which, at the end of the cycle, will cause the player to get a game over if he or she has not saved with the Song of Time and traveled back to the first day. Defeating it, the Moon is destroyed and Termina is saved, allowing a new day to dawn. Majora's Mask itself wishes still to doom Termina, and Link must follow it into the Moon for a final battle. Discovering four giants trapped within the temples at the four corners of the land, Link frees them, learning the Oath to Order, and prevents the Moon from falling. The four who are there, bring them here.' Managing to get the Ocarina of Time back from the Skull Kid, Link plays the Song of Time, sending himself back to the dawn of the day he arrived, and proceeds to uncover the secrets of Termina after regaining his true form thanks to the Happy Mask Salesman.

This is not the only worry, though: the Moon, pulled from its orbit by the Skull Kid, will come crashing down on Termina at the end of the three-day period.Īfter finding a way to the top of the Clock Tower and confronting the Skull Kid, Tael, Tatl's brother, reveals a solution to prevent the Moon from falling: ' Swamp. Link and Tatl journey outside of the Clock Tower into Clock Town, and soon discover that the Carnival of Time, an annual festival, will occur the day after the Happy Mask Salesman has to leave. While tormenting him, Tatl, one of the Skull Kid's two fairies, is left behind, and forced to partner up with Link to find the Skull Kid.Įventually, Link and Tatl reach the inside of Clock Town's Clock Tower, and are confronted by the Happy Mask Salesman, who promises to turn Link back into his true self as long as he recovers the Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, which the Skull Kid had taken earlier, stating that he will need it back within three days, before he has to leave. Chasing them, Link ends up in the strange, parallel world of Termina, and is transformed by the Skull Kid into a Deku Scrub using the power of Majora's Mask. Wandering through the woods, Link encounters the Skull Kid and his two fairies, who spook his horse, Epona, and steal her as well as the Ocarina of Time.

Shortly after his adventure to save Hyrule from Ganondorf in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Link sets off, away from Hyrule, to find a friend who helped him on his adventure, but left him at its end. When his horse and Ocarina are stolen by a strange, masked figure, Link embarks 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!' 'Link's all-new adventure lands him in the mystical world of Termina, where ever-present clocks count down the hours until a menacing moon falls from the sky above.

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