The Mystery of Majora’s Mask’s “Aliens” (Legend of Zelda)
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- At 2.30am, a horde of mysterious creatures appear and attack Romani Ranch. Who are they, and what do they want?
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Funfact: There's a red star in the sky in the direction of the ranch on the night the aliens show up. At 2:30 am, the star fades away and doesn't reappear the following nights.
@@Sam-kn2dw Martha's Landing is a reference to Martha's Bay from Link's Awakening, and is even called that in the Japanese version. Nothing to do with aliens.
I noticed that too.
Wat
@man with a username I played the remake up until a giant eyeball popped out of Odalwa. And I said, "Oh, they're doing this crap again." And I haven't played it since.
@@Sam-kn2dw BOTW also has a blood moon. Like, does the moon literally turn red or is Ganon placing a shader effect on the sky? Cause no matter how much magic power the dude has, changing the color of a separate celestial body is a bit much for any dehydrated wizard.
The head alien in charge speaking to his subordinates on their way to the planet:
"Alright. Let's not spend too much time here. There are actual ghosts and zombies and crap. It's frickin' weird!"
"let's just take the cows and dip before something places a curse on us"
@@opera_ghost8504
"oh my Xenu! These young primitives are shooting at us with wooden spikes! Why aren't our force shields working?!?"
"Sir, the shields were made to block plasma shots and supersonic rounds! The spikes are slow enough that they are ignored! We came here expecting to be shot by magical fireballs, not literal caveman tech!"
@@rotciv557 this is actually terrifying, when they go back on the next Carnival, poor Romani ain't gonna be able to cut it if she doesn't learn some magic beforehand.
@@Derfderk Nah, Link'll just Song of Soaring back to Romani Ranch every year in order to help out. He gets payed in Romani milk and Cremia hugs so it's more than worth it.
“Let’s get the cows and go. This time there’s some ancient hero with the power to beat an evil king with magic powers. And get the kid, guys, she knows about this”
Q: What are the "Aliens"??
A: Aliens, as it turns out.
Next Zelda game: Space travel....after BOTW2 I mean.
@@ironepsilon1992 But you must never go to the moon! After all those Blood Moons with no hero there, its gotta be PACKED with monsters! Seas of Moblins and Hinoxes as far as the eye can see! In fact, blow it up! It's nothing but trouble!
@@KertaDrake I'd be more afraid of Majora....that THING is bad news.
😮 Who would've thought?
Dude, you just spoiled the whole video.
When you take a step back and look at it, Termina is one huge ball of mystery. Aliens, disembodied toilet hands, spider houses, entirety of Ikana Canyon, etc. By far the craziest Zelda game
Even Link couldn't save everyone...
F for the Deku's butler child.😢
The toilet hand thing is actually based off a Japanese ghost story if you look it up
yes. craziest
2nd best to oot. but still Majoeas mask is way more darker and has its benifits...just oot made me cry more as A LITTLE KID.
Tingle
the whole feel of the game is sad and eerie yet keeps u SO intrigued
I like how everyone in game refers to then as 'Ghosts'. They do resemble Poes in their appearance and since ghosts are a fairly common occurance in Zelda, it makes sense characters would think they were just strange Poes rather than aliens.
I wish they would include more strange Mysteries like this in the Zelda series
Fr bro
This video came out 4 minutes ago HOW did you already watched it
@@delta8584 - Guess they just didn't? Not all the way through yet, at least.
especially in breath of the wild. Some sort of place you have to defend for the night, idk it was be cool
Well,they sort of do... Breath of the wild, anyone?
I'd love to see more Zeltik documentaries like this. Especially spooky ones. I actually didn't know about the alien sighting they are based on.
Wow pretty cool to see you here
Omg CZsWorld yo how are you
They look like the Flatwoods mosnter
i did and even saw the unknown mysteries behind it, still find it creepy till this day, glad someone else has covered it!
majoras mask messed me up more than drugs 🤦♀️🤣🤣
What if the aliens aren't working for the Gorman Brothers, but instead vice-versa?
Woah, that's creepy.
Like "If you humans help us get the magic milk, we help you sell your useless milk"? That would made sense, I mean it makes more sense than the brothers being behind the scenes.
@@Hiper_F64 I was more thinking along the lines that the Gorman brothers were there to distract the sisters from the invasion and provide an explanation for why the cows disappear.
@@Supasmartguy I mean that can work as well.
But what if the brothers accidentaly discover the aliens, and before they can dispose them, the brothers made a deal with "them", they will make a distraction so the aliens can attack more easly and in exange they can ensure they safety, and as a bonus they can make profit with their milk. Also I dont remember if it's mention how the third brother (the one from the mask) was killed, but maybe could have something to do with the aliens? Idk
@@Hiper_F64 that's essentially what I'm saying.
I live about an hour from Flatwoods. I’ve heard this story a million times. I ALWAYS thought the “ghosts” look like the Flatwood’s Monster but I never actually knew they were based on it until I was an adult. It’s super cool that they actually used something from my state.
There's just something inherently spooky about aliens in a medieval setting. These and the Celestial Emissary from Bloodborne are examples of a vastly underused enemy type in fantasy.
D&D's mindflayers and Pathfinder's Dominion of the Black could count, although the latter is an organization of several aliens and brainwashed humanoids rather than a specific species of space spook.
I agree with that wholeheartedly. In a fantasy game filled with monsters, ghouls and skeletons I thought I was ready for anything. Aliens in my Zelda game was such a left turn it absolutely terrified me as a kid.
It's even more unsettling in a series like Zelda where it is an objective fact that there are goddesses who created the world and seem to care about only it. It makes you wonder, if these aliens are coming from another planet, does this planet have no gods/goddesses? or does it have its own? could these other gods ever become enemies of the goddesses? Lots of questions!
Probably because some writers are afraid of Fantasy Purists who'll shout "This doesn't belong in Fantasy!", but it definitely is incredibly spooky to have aliens in a fantasy setting because it really highlights the advanced and foreign nature of Aliens, that our Midieval style Paladin won't be able to understand them.
I say considering their appearance,how they move, and how they are positioned I say they are the Flatwoods monster
It really makes you think what’s out there in the stars in Zelda.
We have explore the wild, place, time, and even dimension.
I remember thinking that Bellum from Phantom Hourglass was an extraterrestrial when I played it as a kid.
Looking back I don't think there's anything that supports that hypothesis, but Bellum certainly feels more like a Metroid foe than it does a Zelda one.
@@LonelySpaceDetective it clearly does LOOK like a Lovecraft style alien.
It's interesting that "they" appear every year right before the festival. Could there be a forgotten connection between the two events?
Gather all the population in the town that's built with rather large walls for safety, perhaps? Spend one night of paranoia followed by one day of partying, then everyone forgot the paranoia part due to always going to party and never being around to see what's going on at their farms?
To my understanding, due to the varying distance between Earth and Mars, to ensure the greatest chance of success we mainly send out probes, etc. to Mars when the two planets are at their closest. It may be that the time for the festival lands at such a similar point.
Mysteries like this is something I want to see more of in Botw 2
Because them might be zonai
Just kidding
100%. Sometimes BOTW just seems lifeless
@@masterkohga2353 Unless....
Strange that BOTW at some point was considering the alien route also
There needs to be more events and such going on in the over world in general.
Having rare and random alien invasions would be so sick. And having to find out where they are coming from and possibly a bonus dungeon of a crashed mothership or something would be out of this world
We will never get a zelda game like this again. Cherish it
@Ahsoka Skywalker we did get a remake and it wasnt as good
I feel the same way. I think another reason it is so great to me is the nature in which I played it. I played OOT when it came out and LOVED it. I was 6 yeaes old. I remember not even knowing about MM until I randomly was at my friends house in like 2001...and he had the game. I remember I was shocked there was a different game. I was excited to try it and I did...it looked exactly the same as OOT so I was expecting more of the same. But I remember when I played it it just felt...off and weird. But not in a bad way. It really felt like an alternate universe to me. Especially since I didn’t even know it existed until that day. The time mechanic and starting off as a deku scrub made me feel weird I remember. Like totally different than the OOT. Oh and the moon...I remember being like wtf?? Even as a 7 or 8 yo. Just felt creepy and weird
Fast forward 7-8 years and I had never played any more of the game until one day I remembered that there was a sequel to OOT. And I finally decided to buy it myself on eBay. It arrived and for some reason I still had a weird feeling about the game. Like it just arrived in one of those yellow folder type packages...no offIcial box. No tv adds about it...no hyped marketing...just me playing a used copy that arrived from eBay. I then played through all the way to the ikana canyons part....and I couldn’t beat it and it was the year I was going going into highschool (2008/2009). The game faded for me cuz I got busy with highschool etc. but I really enjoyed it...but it was so hard to me at the time. Like cursed
Then fast forward another 6 years. I was in college. And I decided to get the GameCube version of the game that was ported. I was very fond of the game but I remember I never actually beat it. So I was determined to beat it. I played it again....notice how each time I attempt this game it’s from a totally different mental state (7 or 8 yo, 15yo, 20ish yo). So I am playing this game for a third time and it still always brings back nostalgia of OOT because it looks and sounds the same...but it still feels like an alternate reality to my nostalgia. Hard to describe. And wouldn’t you know it...I got stuck in ikana canyon and didn’t beat the game again LOL. I was in college and ended up getting a gf. So my interests shifted a bit. Luckily she was into gaming actually and she knew all about Majoras mask and basically any game really. So finally I played it with her and beat the game.
So it was just a weird way to experience the game for me. Playing it for the first time without even knowing about it. It honestly felt like it popped out of nowhere like magic. Then playing it multiples times at different stages of life and not being able to beat it. Felt cursed or something. So all of that combined with how amazing the game is....made for one great experience for me when playing this game. Everything about it was unnatural in the way I experienced it...and I feel there was no better way for me to experience Majoras mask.
I have so much emotion and nostalgia attached to the game
It is said that the sequel to breath of the wild will get darker than Majora's Mask.
**sniff** I know :(
Having completed both the original and the remake, I don't see much of gap between the two. They are functionally the same with only minor changes that in my opinion don't affect the overall experience.
With the exception of fishing holes. Link was born to fish. 👍
Something to note, if it hasn’t already been mentioned, the noise they make when hit, and the way they disappear when hit by an arrow, seems to hint at some sort of futuristic/digital technology being used. The “ghosts” could even be some sort of interactive hologram that gets disrupted each time an arrow passes through it
"Phantom" Zant is noted on some wikias to actually be a _Star Wars_ style hologram: blue shade, scanlines, and static when he's hit.
The Legend of Zelda was originally planned to be post apocalyptic after humanity destroyed civilization.
@@brandongravley6339 still apocalyptic thou lol
*Insert crazy hair guy: "Aliens!"
"This is Misunderstood Technology!" (....he says that a LOT).
because to That Guy older (PoC) peoples couldn’t POSSIBLY be engineers with “simpler” tools 😒😪
@@anonymousfellow8879 eh, that guy believes aliens engineered us so I doubt he cares about race or ethnicity if he thinks everyone came from aliens.
@@EasyCure0 Regardless, he does claim that all the covered non-white races couldn't possibly know what they did, which is inherently bias against those races.
(On a sidenote I heard that the PhD that they show is largely unrelated to anything that the show covers, iirc it is physiology)
Giorgio Tsoukalos. You can thank me later. 😂
Maybe watching this late at night wasn't the best idea
Maybe you should go outside for a some fresh air
Right 😂
@@zakashiXninja wdym
Its creepy 😂
@@zakashiXninja I just got shivers when he showed the photo of the "alien"
"Cows turn themselves inside out all the time!" -Officer Barbrady
Where's that from?
@@siscokidder It's from the pilot episode of _South Park._
Imagine being our hero, going through Ocarina of Time and interacting with their Zora. Nothing strange about them. Then, you go to Termina, meet their Zora, and realize, holy crap, the Hyrule Zora are n a k e d
And then you realize that in Hyrule, the king of the Zora is sitting in the source of all the water in the Kingdom...
@@KertaDrake y u m m y
I always thought the scene with princess Ruto after you save her from jabu-jabu was a bit much lmao
@@slarbiter Pfft, please.
It _awakened_ things in me at the time.
Um, excuse me, the zora king wears a shawl…
I never once thought they were anything other than aliens. Gorman theory is a really weird stance to take.
Same.
A really stupid *stance to take
Lore channels be starved
For some reason when I was a kid I thought they were the garo without their cloaks
People just want to debunk aliens, even if they're in video games.
These guys need to be brought back. Imagine an entire dungeon set inside their ship.
Imagine that you're just walking through Hyrule Field at night, the eerie sounds of the wind blowing and crickets chirping being the only noises besides your footsteps and breathing along with whatever animals lurk in the darkness covered grass. Then, the sky above you suddenly glows orange, yet the landscape surrounding you remains shrouded in shadow. You're confused for a bit until you look up, at which point you transition from confused to scared. Right above you is a giant orange ball, hovering completely motionless against the night sky. Then, some kind of energy beam blasts you, and you suddenly start being pulled up into the ball. You're now moving from scared to terrified as the landscape below you disappears into darkness and your eyes suddenly shut. That would be fucking horrific.
As much as I'm not really keen on the idea of "Them" coming back, a Zelda dungeon set inside an alien ship sounds *super-dope.*
There was some Breath of the Wild concept art that had some kind of alien related theme. It would be interesting if we see "Them" in the sequel.
Go full Mothership Zeta on it. Accidentally blow up Ganon's fortress with a death ray!
I got a legit shiver from that picture of the spade-headed "alien." Thanks for the nightmares!
the flatwoods monster?
How??
@@FoxSqueeArt some people are susceptible to certain imagery.
@@FoxSqueeArt Guess I'm the only one! I think it's because the image first appeared to me to be a photograph, not a piece of artwork.
Imagine being a West Virginia native (like me) and being told that story/shown that drawing as a four-year-old. Now THAT is a formula for nightmares, I can tell you.
I already know this video is going to be incredible
Majora's mask is such a great game, I wish they'd include more interconnected side stories in future games that are as deep as they were in this one.
imagine being a farmer and watching this, i wouldn't be able to sleep at night.
Imagine being a farmer and playing this. I was that farmer lol. We were obsessed with aliens as a kid, as it was somrthing we believed to be a real thing to be wary of
@@sethdusith6093 Lol
God I fucking love Majoras Mask. It's a masterpiece.
Nintendo had an interesting concept idea for BotW’s story where aliens invade Hyrule. Would’ve been cool if they slightly referenced the ranch invasion in the final product
Aliens vs ancient giant mecha would be entertaining. Take Vah Medoh for a spin against some saucers!
ZeldaDungeon's guide describes this as "one of the strangest predicaments in Zelda history". Which I would say is pretty accurate. Cows getting abducted by aliens on a specific date every year isn't exactly an everyday problem.
Haaaahaaahaa...I see what you did there.
Weird, mysterious and dark stuff like this is why Majora’s Mask is my favorite Zelda game.
Idk about y'all, but I remember the first time I played through MM, the aliens were absolutely terrifying. I lost the first time I tried it, and only managed to beat it the second time with the song that slows time. But both times I was so scared by the aliens. Even though I wasn't the target, if they got anywhere near me I freaked out.
I thought they were a great addition to Majora's Mask and one of my favourite quests, even if it was a little challenging, I hope they make another appearance in a future Zelda game somehow :)
Okay, if this happens every year, tearing the roof off the barn every time, how does Cremia not know about it? Especially since their dad apparently wrote about it happening.
Probably because it was always successfully defended. An alien has to actually reach the barn for them to win
Perhaps she had her memory erased just like Romani.
Would be rather hilarious if the aliens were trying to save the cows, either mistaking them for the highest life-forms, or just finding only them worth saving.
But in all seriousness, I do recall a strange memory, though likely a dream that probably bled over into a memory, where if you used the Lens of Truth on Them, they had a different "true" form revealed.
You're definitely just referencing the pilot episode of South Park
Z: "thanks for watching this video"
Me: "thanks for fucking me up with that Flatwoods Monster story and picture right before I go to bed"
I always thought it was the skull kid that dropped the boulder in the path to the ranch. It seems more in his area.
Agreed, the boulder is placed there to prevent link from getting his horse back
Yeah that makes way more sense. How would the Gorman brothers move it? Skull kid with the power of Majora can literally move the moon
@@mattdeluccia153 my guess is if the Gorman bros did cause the boulder issue it wouldn't be by moving it but causing it to fall likely using a mining pickaxe or bombs of some sort though I doubt they'd use a powder keg as I think only gorons can use that, but not Link nor the terminians however I can also see the power of the mask by skull kid used here too considering skull kid is making a moon which is made of space rock so both are logical but I agree they could not move a rock of that size with just their hands.
I really have a soft spot in my heart for Romani Ranch, it's by far my most favorite area of Termina. As soon as it is available to go explore I like to go there. There are a couple events that I always like to intervene in each time the three-day cycle is reset. The Romani Ranch side quest is one of them.
I wish Zelda had more sci-fi stuff in it like these aliens. Nintendo revealed that one of the initial concepts for Breath of the Wild was an alien invasion, and I wish they would do more with something like that in the future.
Maybe worried about feeling close to Nier which I think was still big around it’s time?
Twilight Princess had a very sci-fi feel.
Don't think they'll do it unless there is a futuristic Zelda game in the future...because let's be honest, Hyrule is way too primitive to beat space faring aliens
2:35 “as they are vulnerable to Arrows”
“So were not so different after all”
How she acts after she's abducted also creeps me out
why does she hold her head in pain and she doesn’t remember anything 😳😵💫
Romani’s ranch during the alien Invasion that shit gave me trauma I lived in a ranch myself in Puerto Rico where literally the first registered sight of “El chupacabra” occurred in 1995 the town of Canovanas and the during following years up to the early 2000’s when I played this game. I legit saw chickens, goats and rabbits sucked all of their blood as a kid with 3 holes punctures and Majora didn’t help with that trauma 😂🤣.
Wether it was an alien or a rabid animal that did it that’s a different discussion but Canovanas intercepts with part of the mystical rainforest of Puerto Rico “El Yunque” where US military has secret bases, huge satélite antennas and where UFO’s have been encountered and observed by the locals for decades.
*I heard so many stories like Romani’s where people have seen said creatures at night killing their farm animals, or just UFO’s in the sky in this area. There’s many theories like US military experiments gone wrong, US military exercises, wild animals, Aliens, signals being send to space through the observatory of Arecibo which used be the biggest Lonosphere in the planet. Funny enough there’s an astral observatory in Majora, coincidence much?*
is it just me or is his voice really calming 🙂
I agree
It's the "video essay" voice.
The back-story from Aonuma was very interesting. They decided that a scenario ripped from the headlines would be neat to play, and two decades later people are still mulling over the lore implications
Interesting tidbit: in Tingle's Rosy Ruppeeland there are cows with Gray alien heads. Most definitely inspired by this event.
I had to look this up but it's hilariously true, thank you for the tip
This is my favorite mystery in the Zelda universe. My second favorite what ever the story is with the Ocean Side Spider House which has an interesting attic that I recommend looking around in the 3ds verson.
Side note: I love the ufo picture they added in the 3ds verson.
OOooo, what's up with the attic? If I remember right, it was just boxes, though...
@@popsicIes In the 3ds verson there is a coffin that looks like it from Egypt and a stone statue that is covered up so you can't see its face but it has pretty large feet.....I think there were other stuff but I can't remember.
As a child Majora made me feel uneasy… specially Romani’s ranch during the alien Invasion that shit gave me trauma I lived in a ranch myself in Puerto Rico where literally the first registered sight of “El chupacabra” occurred in 1995 the town of Canovanas and the during following years up to the early 2000’s when I played this game. I legit saw chickens, goats and rabbits sucked all of their blood as a kid with 3 holes punctures and Majora didn’t help with that trauma 😂🤣.
Wether it was an alien or a rabid animal that did it that’s a different discussion but Canovanas intercepts with part of the mystical rainforest of Puerto Rico “El Yunque” where US military has secret bases, huge satélite antennas and where UFO’s have been encountered and observed by the locals for decades.
*I heard so many stories like Romani’s where people have seen said creatures at night killing their farm animals, or just UFO’s in the sky in this area. There’s many theories like US military experiments gone wrong, US military exercises, wild animals, Aliens, signals being send to space through the observatory of Arecibo which used be the biggest Lonosphere in the planet. Funny enough there’s an astral observatory in Majora, coincidence much?*
That's a very spooky, out-of-this-world video! I have confidence that, whenever the aliens re-appear, Romani will be telling them "You came to the wrong house, fool!"
Yet again, I see a new Zeltik video within a minute of it being posted
Lillie: “Can I have some milk? I heard the Chateau Romani out is something that absolutely out of this world.”
Noice
@@williamvoss8619 Thxs
@@WarmLillie sorry but you are too young wait till you are of age.
@@GODOFAWSOMENESS1 But Young Link can drink it...
@@WarmLillie he is a special case. Also he doesn’t seem to be affected by alcohol.
Can you talk about Holodrum and Labrynna? Nobody talks about those places in their theories.
But thats mostly because we don't know very much about them, they weren't made by Nintendo, and they weren't very popular.
@@confusedduck8695 Yeah, but I see people doing theories about the trailer of Breath of the wild 2 and we don't even know nothing about it. So, I think holodrum and Labrynna can be more easy to speculate, because its an actual game.
I agree. I mean, Termina is always brought up as being an alternate dimension/universe because it has doppelgängers of the Hyrulians, yet the neighboring lands of Labrynna and Holodrum also have doppelgängers of Hylians. How come no one acknowledges that?
@@geoffreyrichards6079 Wait, they have doppelgangers, too? I thought Labyrnna/Holodrum were canonically neighboring lands?
They are. That’s why it’s so confusing, and also why I’m skeptical about Termina being a separate world altogether.
I can’t believe West Virginia actually got mentioned!!! My state never gets acknowledged, like eeeever.
I always knew they were aliens. It just made the most sense. It was the obsession with the cows.
It totally wasn't aliens. Tingle just crashed his balloon into the farm combined with swamp gas from Woodfall. Nothing to see here!
I liked how you started the video. It felt like a murder mystery video. Keep this style up. Very creepy
"Them" remind me of a toy I had when I was a kid, it was kind of like a foam head with a plastic net body similar to the aliens, when you pressed the head inside the net and released it it would jump, that's also the reason i've never been scared of this aliens
I think i remember those. They had a little suction cup that sticked them to whatever surface you placed it on
Imagine being an advanced space travelling species and being killed a regular arrow being fired from a child’s bow
Well, to cross franchises: Donald's most powerful spell is *GUN.*
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I never thought they were ghosts, growing up watching X-Files. Also, meteors don't course correct.
Not unless they have an alien in it
Really cool video, very interesting.
Just one thing, I’m pretty sure “Mama’s House” simply refers to Mamamu Yan, owner of the Dog Races.
I agree! And nobody seems to mention the dog that runs around the barn and house barking at the aliens that are WAAAAY too close to the barn (like a warning that you're about to fail). Im sure that doggy belonged to her and lives on the ranch now.
First of all, I love how you narrate the theories and make them sound so scary.
Secondly, I theorized this years ago that those beings are aliens but I didn’t know that they were inspired by an actual events from then in America and in late 90’s in Japan.
These guys scared me and their song fits perfectly to make us feel scared. I hope to see more scary events in the future Zelda games. Yes, I agree that Termina is indeed the weirdest place in all of Zelda games. It’s extremely creepy.
Short answer: they are dope.
Hmmm I could use a smoke or 2
Dooooooope
In addition to their main design inspiration being the Flatwoods Monster, the striped headdress worn by each of these aliens reminds me of those worn by ancient Egyptian pharaohs.
I can’t wait to watch this! This is what I like from this channel! ❤️
That's some slick editing for the intro. Well done!
You basically just in a long round about way told me what I already knew. But with a better voice and I loved it.
That UFO picture on the wall, not the sketch, looks like an edit of that "I WANT TO BELIEVE" picture.
This video was amazing I’m so glad you made a video about “THEM” at Romani Ranch! Thank you Zeltik you’re definitely the best Zelda content creator on TH-cam
Idk what it is but everytime I see one of these Zelda theory videos the narrarator/youtuber has such a nice and calming voice that all my worries and anxieties melt away... Damn.. this is better than those nice asmrs... this channel needs more subs
God he is so drunk that he forgot he had a magic meter
i wish there was fanart of a drunk fierce deity link
@@LonelySpaceDetective I'm sure it's been done
I've been waiting for this!
"i have a name for them, those who slither in the dark". - Hubert FE3h
I used to be so frightened by this quest. The atmosphere is so tense, so strange in an already so strange game. It is so dramatic, so sad when you fail. Even today my heart is beating abnormally fast when chasing those invaders
I really like the beginning of this video
The aliens in Majoras Mask are one of my favorite Zelda unsolved mysteries. I hope they include creatures like these in later Zelda games.
This is the 3DS version of Mekar Island from Breath of the Wild. This series has given so many mysteries about which we could spend hours thinking without arriving at a meaningful conclusion.
Still one of my favorite segments of any Zelda game. The mystery slowly unfolding over the course of days, the realization that's something insane is actually happening at the ranch, and the tense fight to keep the aliens away from the barn. I think it's my favorite side quest from Majora's mask.
Considering how alien the sheikah technology is becoming in the games it's not actually that surprising to see aliens represented, and I would love to see more stuff like this in future games
Word you please do a top 10 Zelda side quests video? You're the best!
That sounds like i would be a good video
This is Zelda's version of SIGNS.
Where are the glasses of water when you need them?
snow head by far the most emotional level. southern swamp the eeriest. stonehead the creepiest
and great bay the funnest. IMO
When i was a kid playing this on the 64 i used to make my older sister stay in the room with me whenever i did this quest lol
same but with my mom!!! first real anxiety attack i felt as a kid ;-;
Got to be my favorite part in the Zelda franchise. I love when they take something that might have happened in real life and transfer it into a game like this. Game Freak did something similar with Sableye been modeled after the Kentucky Goblins.
Something interesting about the aliens is that their movement speed is tied to the time mechanic.
If you slow time then the aliens move slower as well, though this means more spawn overall.
True. Though speeding up the time would make this incredibly easy otherwise.
Well designed balance
I love this style. Really sparks my imagination for the Zelda-series and its deeper lore. Keep it up! :-)
Next time on Zeltik: Sasquatch versus Gorons, and why the Yetis in Snowpeak were responsible for the mystery of Dstreaslitch Pass or whatever called.
For real though, Majora's Mask's eeriness and mysteriousness comes from unexplainable stuff like this, which is why it's one of my favorite games.
Dude that intro was absolutely AMAZING
lol I definitely got a very "Unsolved Mysteries" vibe from this one and I'm loving it.
Me too
It makes you wonder what marvelous things would be out there, beyond the skies.
Oh, well, we DID know..... There you can find a Rainbow Road; Link was already there.
In the game, it's only implied they abduct the cows in previous years with a cow in a circle of light, and Romani story only gets to them going to the barn and the rest is implied.
My theory is that the cows interest the aliens, but in previous years they only went to the barn to study them with advance equipment, which to an outsider looks mysterious and strange, especially to a child. And Romani probably discovered them at least 2 years previous doing this, to get to the conclusion of them coming every year and them doing strange things to the cows. The reason why they come every year, is that they are trying to make their own versions of the cows and they probably have some non-interference rule going on, and they compare their versions against the original cows to see if they got it right and/or to see if the ranch has breed better cows. The reason they took the cows this year, is because of the moon falling.
So glad you covered this mystery in depth. This has to be one of the great top ten mysteries of zelda.
I never once thought they were involved with the Brothers, I always knew they were aliens. I was only 9 at the time.
Nothing in Zelda scares me more than these things. I don't know why they freak me out so much but even now into my 20s I *dread* this part of Majora's Mask
Loved this mate, quality as always!
Ok this is actually really cool just game history and studying. Seriously, love your videos. Always learning something new!!
I mean its pretty obvious that they're just aliens man, never thought it was anything else. Still an awesome vid though
i was about 12 when i first played MM on wii virtual console and as soon as i saw that these "ghosts" were not actually ghosts but actually aliens i could feel chills going down my spine and when i lost it felt so usettlting and i cant stand to lose even now that i have MM on 3ds it just feels worng to not be there that night at 2:30 am
One of my favorite parts of one of my favorite games. It serves to exemplify the sheer magnitude of Termina’s terrible plight. Not only is the entire land doomed to impending death by the Moon, but each species (and most individuals) have their own individual troubles as well. The Romani sisters serve as a fantastic example. They, like everyone, are bound to be crushed by the Moon, but their trouble goes deeper than that. Their father has recently passed, and at some unspecified point in the past, so did their mother. The Ranch has been less cheerful, and the Gorman Bros have been using every trick in the book to make things harder for them. Cremia faces the brunt of these burdens, and has also been under fire about Kafei’s disappearance due to their former friendship. Some in Clock Town accuse her of, essentially, having had Kafei run off with her just days before he was to marry Anju. She also has to shield her sister from the burden of knowing about the Moon, even going so far as to give her laxatives on the third night. Romani herself, while she knows not of the Moon’s impending crash course with Termina, fears for the cows because of the arrival of the aliens, and if Link doesn’t step in or fails to save her, she is abducted, seemingly probed (or something equally unpleasant) and released, albeit permanently scarred, by the aliens. I don’t understand how the Gorman Bros could be related to this, as while they’re clearly not above such means, frankly I think they’re too stupid to come up with something like that. Whereas Romani and Cremia are earnest and hardworking farmers, the Gorman Bros fall more under the typical redneck/hick-in-the-sticks stereotype. Even if they somehow have connections to dark magic, I don’t think it’s plausible they could summon aliens. Plus Aonuma himself clearly hadn’t thought of that.
I've been binge watching your videos all weekend, really enjoying them. Thanks for the entertainment and please keep it up :)
i think 'they' are best left as a complete mystery. it adds to the already unnerving and eerie nature of majora's mask
I’d totally not appreciated the fact the cattle make magical milk could be a motivation for the aliens!
The things about the ranch I always wondered but never solved:
- During the sighting, Romani stays inside the barn the whole time. How did she expect to stop Them that way? For what was she practicing with a bow, if at the crucial moment she didn't even come out to shoot?
- Also, Romani says They come every year, yet Cremia doesn't believe her. Why? Haven't the cows been abducted the previous years too?
- If the answer is yes (which I'm assuming it is), how do you manage to keep breeding new magic-milk cows every year? I mean, in the barn there's only two or three. I can only guess there are actually many more cows in the ranch, just off-screen, because no way you can maintain a ranch when your two only heads of cattle are repeatedly abducted every year.
I imagine like real life cattle abduction or cattle mutilation stories, it's only one or two and not the whole herd. It just happens to be that night that "They" came for the whole herd which is why Cremia didn't believe Romani before.
For your 1st question, I'm guessing Romani tried to fight them off herself one year just as Link does, but in her case she was unsuccessful. With Link there, she probably figured it'd be best that she stays with the cows since that's what the aliens are after . If both her and Link are outside, it runs the risk of 1 alien sneaking past them and getting to the cows
For your 2nd question, that is indeed bizarre. Romani clearly has encountered the aliens several times since she's able to give Link all the information that she does. The only way she could do that is if she has battled the aliens for a number of years. In all the times that they have invaded before, they have to have stolen the cows at least once or twice (thus indicating to Romani what their annual target is). And being that Romani is constantly training for the invasion which only occurs once a year, there's no way Cremia would eventually want to see for herself what Romani is always talking about
Very fascinating, I always look forward to a Zeltik upload. :)
I wonder what was behind the Majoira's Mask the whole time
Well for most of the game, the thing behind majora's mask was the face of skull kid.
@@andresbarquin wow
The aliens look a lot like zonai constructs when you think about it
I like the way you did that intro. Very reminiscent of old science fiction B movies.
You've for sure upped your production quality lately! It was already really good, but it's getting even better, keep it up man!