I love that this game isn't 'Link's Destiny', it's him taking time to look for a friend and getting caught up in something wild. No prophecy, no Ganondorf, just something he wanted to do.

The common theory I've seen about Great Bay Temple is it's basically a giant water purifier since, after defeat Gyorg, the water in Great Bay becomes less murky.

Another peice of obscure lore: Recently it has come to my attention that the moon seens to have always had a face, but just in a more joyful expression. Notice how no one is suprised by the moons face but rather- by its expression. In the files for majoras mask 3D there are two different moon sprites for the 5 minute count down on day three but one goes unused, a sprite of the moon with a happy face and yellow eyes. This same depiction of the moon can be found in-game as a decoration above the entrance to the Mayor's Residence and atop the back of the chair in his office. It can be seen in both the N64 and 3DS versions.

Great Bay Temple is more than just a factory; it's a water treatment plant!

This is what allows the Zora to live in the sea, and why you need to get the facility up and running again to help them out.

I think that MM is about grief. He starts the game looking for his friend Navi and enters a world tormented by a lonely imp who lost his friends and is throwing the mother of all tantrums about it. It's a game about moving on and not letting grief hold you in place, I think.

Those deku scrubs are pretty brave for setting up shop in Shrek's swamp

>Old hags make potions and fly around on broomsticks
>"While not obvious witches..."

Considering Terminian characters are familiar with Hyrule, such as the Gorons knowing of Dodongos cavern with tasty rocks inside, I think it's a legitimate place. I've always hated the 5 stages of grief and alternate world theories. The games go out of their way to explain these things if it's actually a plot point, Links Awakening was revealed to be a dream and ALTTP/ALBW both made it clear when alternate worlds were involved. Majoras Mask would have made it clear if it was an alternate or internal dream world.

I could be wrong, but i don't think the game was a dream or Link dying. My main reason and a detail thats easy to overlook is the very ending scene of the game, where we see a tree stump with images of Link, the Skull Kid, and the Giants carved into it, implied to have been done by the Skull Kid due to its similarity to the one we see him make with Tatl and Tael in Termina Field in a cutscene. This is after Link has rode away in Majora's Mask and is back in the forest he started in, so back in Hyrule once again. It was a long shot, but I was hoping we might find a lone tree stump with the carvings on it down in the depths of Tears of the Kingdom, or perhaps in another game as an easter egg.

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Twilight's princess fundamentally breaks the idea that link died in majora's mask since the shade of the hero is the hero of time, twilight princess takes place in the same timeline, and the shade clearly isn't a kid

MM is a game that deepen all Links traumas, feelings and regrets during the events in OoT... after all he was just a lonely child that had to live harsh experiences. And at the end, the only ones who where really by his side and knew about his achievementes (Deku Tree, Navi, 7 Sages, Zelda), literally died or "abandoned" him.

Both games are pretty sad the more you analyze it :(

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we can be pretty sure Link doesn't die in Majora's Mask
due to 2 things:
1. the same Link from Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask appears in Twilight Princess  (the knight who teaches you new moves after howling to the other wolf, it's even been directly confirmed to be the same Link)
and 2. what Link lands on, the flower thingy, you can even test it in game, fall from a great height and see if you die and as long as you land on the flower you will be completely unharmed, no damage (try it, if you don't believe me and see for yourself)
- even if you don't count the 2nd one, him actually returning and teaching the hero of Twilight is still something he did

tho I will agree that the world of Termina is a big mystery in itself
but Termina isn't the only strange world we've visited in Zelda, there's also Lorule
and the Twilight Realm...if you want to count that, there's also the Dark World

I've known this game since it first came out. I have played it many times. Getting to 22:24 in this video is the first time I've noticed it's basically Alice in Wonderland.
Child follows strange creature, falls down big hole, lands in alternate world that may or not be real. Even down to the Wizard of Oz approach of 'and you, and you, and you were there!' that some adaptations go for (Burton movie, the Whoopi Goldberg movie and the ballet spring to mind).

I always thought the inside of the moon is a illussion of Majora shown to the moon to force it to actually crash. I always based it on the assumtion of the moon beeing the deity of Termina plane and the city, since that region hasnt a out right deity.

About the whole "dimension" in general, i think its a byproduct of the splitting timeline. The left over of the remaining timeline where ganon or demise didnt even existed in the first place, a world that grew without 3 primal goddess, but many minor gods keeping the regions as their realms.

The Stone Tower Temple reminds me of the story of the Tower of Babel from the Bible...a tower in Babylon, meant to artificially reach Heaven. God destroyed it as punishment, and as it collapsed, humanity's different languages were made.
The symbolism with Link ascending a tower made by the once strong Ikana kingdom, only to have it defy physics and be flipped upside down for the last climb...
The parallels of Heaven, punishment and the afterlife in Ikana couldn't be stronger.

Symbolism aside, the Moon Children are asking those questions in relation to Skull Kid.
And if I bring symbolism back, I think this area was created by Majora using Skull Kid's mind. The questions are thoughts, and the kids being the Salesman could either be because an impression was left from the time Skull Kid personally attacked the Salesman in the woods, or another mystery between the HMS and Majora directly.

I might be mistaken, but I feel like saying Link's Awakening was "all a dream" is a bit of a misrepresentation of the events of that game. It wasn't even Link's dream, right?

Weird to have a MM location lore video without any mention about all the theories about Stone Tower. Unless we're just scrapping it all 'cause of the 3DS remake scrubbing the Triforce disrespect away.

I think that the moon was just a creation of Majora. So he made it look like it does.

"Mysteriously mysterious woods that are a mystery." Lol.  Reminded me of Invader Zim.