Which Zelda game is darker: Twilight Princess or Majora's Mask?

[Clearing the Eye]

I don't think either are particularly dark. Majora is perhaps the darker of the two, though.

 

[Luca72]

Twilight Princess was dark in the way a Tim Burton movie is dark. Everything's still cute and quirky, except it's all in black.

Majora's Mask showed that no matter who you helped, there would always be someone with a problem who gets neglected. Everything about the game was unsettling. Even the giants at the end that are supposed to be nice and friendly were kind of creepy.

On a side note, Majora's Mask had really fun characters. I liked how the guy in the pawn shop would wear sunglasses or something, and then close up shop to work his day job in the store right next door. You could jack that Gorons' reservation and talk to him while he slept outside all day. Or how the Zoras had this coral-lined recording studio. Lots of cool little details.

 

[Davroth]

Truth time:

To this day, I have never been able to bring myself to look at what happens if you don't rewind time after the third day ends. I was that scared of the moon.

That's my answer. ^^

It's downright anti-climatic. Link stands in a dark void for a few seconds (probably because they didn't care to change the scene depending on where you are when it happens) and then a wave of fire just washes over him. It doesn't even look like scorching flames of death, just the stuff that surrounds chests when they don't want you to open them without a little puzzle. It's like the Moon just cast Din's Fire and that's it.

Oh, I don't doubt that. It's more that the game managed to sell the idea of the moon crashing into Termina so well that I was terrified of it. Enough so that I never actually wanted to see it.

 

[k.interdonato]

Really old thread here, but honestly, how has nobody talked about the whole Romani sister ordeal? Romani, on the third night, mentions to you that she will be allowed to finally have Chateau Romani, which is hinted to be alcohol. It is only sold at the milk bar, and it is too potent for kids. The older sister is giving this to young Romani in order to ease the pain that will be experienced that night. She also asks Romani to sleep in her bead that night so that she will not have to die alone. This is dark. Like, really really dark.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

This thread has probably been done before, but still.

So which is darker in your opinion? I'd like to think Majora's Mask is darker (And better) because of all the implied deaths after the third day.

Neither. The darkest Zelda title was Link's Awakening.

Why would you say that?

 

[DJ_DEnM]

This thread has probably been done before, but still.

So which is darker in your opinion? I'd like to think Majora's Mask is darker (And better) because of all the implied deaths after the third day.

Neither. The darkest Zelda title was Link's Awakening.

Why would you say that?

In Twilight Princess and Majora's Mask - You save everyone from death/destruction/doom/gloom/boom.

In Link's Awakening - You basically kill EVERYONE ON THE ISLAND BY WAKING THE WINDFISH. Sure, debate that they weren't even real to begin with, but as a kid - finding out that you single handedly wiped out an entire island is damned depressing.

So in plot, it's darker. In theme, maybe not. MM's theme is the five stages of grief [http://majorasmask.tumblr.com/post/22087414097/the-five-stages-of-grief-clock-town-is-denial].