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Well, we've heard about the next Zelda Game coming out for many months now. Oddly enough, the name of the game itself has changed three times from, Zelda 64 Gaiden, to The Legend of Zelda: The Continuing Saga, to "The Mask of Mujula" ???? Hmm...just what will those Nintendo marketing geniuses think of next. (The Mask of Mujula - "Gotta wear 'em all!") Well, as it stands now folks, this games is more than likely going to be the weirdest Zelda we've ever played with character for Zelda 64 warped to have evil or tainted dopplegangers. I liken this game to Alice's Trip Through the Looking Glass because this game really bends the genre to the extreme and really brings Link into the realm of "The Unexplained." If you rememer in Zelda 64 there was a shop that sold different masks that Link could put on his face. In one part of the game you had to sell the masks to finally get "The Mask of Truth" The Mask of Truth allowed Link to gain almost useless information from Gossip Stones thoughout Hyrule. Also Too you could use the Horned Masked at the Forest Stage in increase Link's Deku Stick capacity. (Woo, big deal!) The Masks in Zelda 64 played a very passive inessential role in the development of the game's plot and overall premise. In Mask of Mujula, or MOM, for short, Link uses the masks to gain entry to many areas and the entire plot is centered around the implimentation of these different masks. Link's trip down the Rabbit Hole gets stranger when he encounters, Mujula, a Stalchild who steals Epona from him. Also too, Link's fairy Navi has a counterpart in this twisted realm. All this while the Moon falls down upon Hyrule. I really don't know what to say? It's definitely not classic Zelda, but, somehow I think the game will be rather interesting to play considering many puzzles involve interchanging or wearing certain masks so Link can morph into conglomerations of himself and what ever the mask represents. If you ever saw the movie, "The Mask" with Jim Carry than you will remember what happened when he put the Mask on. More than likely Nintendo got the idea from somewhere, and it very well could have been that movie. When will Mask of Mujula come to the United States? Probably late this year around Christmas time as indicated by Nintendo. Interestingly enough Miyamoto is not overseeing development of Mask of Mujula, instead he is relying on the expertise of members of the Zelda 64 staff and others to make this game. The funny thing about Nintendo lately is when they make a game, they take a long time to do it and annoy gamers in America by releasing it half a year after Japan gets the game. Will Perfect Dark ever release? I just don't fathom Nintendo's marketing strategy by producing low grade third party games (Superman 64 *cringes* Quest 64 *pukes*) and releasing like one decent game a year expecting that one game to carry them though the rest of the fiscal year. I'm sorry but for me DK didn't impress me that much. Nintendo 64 NEEDS Metroid 64 for Christ sakes, and blockbuster remakes of games like Mega Man, Blaster Master, BattleToads, Kid Icarus, Super Ghouls and Ghosts, and for crying out load, at least ONE Decent RPG of Chrono Trigger of FF status. The SNES represented the glory days of gaming, they were unstoppable then, and it's just like Nintendo's really dropped the ball with the N64 aside from legends like Goldeneye, and Zelda 64. I really hope they're just saving up all their talent for Dolphin because N64 needs some help. I know there are die hard N64 fanatics that will scoff at my "dissin" of their machine, but face it, it just isn't the Super Nintendo. Many N64 games really do suck! (So do many PSX, but at least they have a larger quantity of good games to compensate) I want the Nintendo of old where every month there was a new great, not this regurgitated gaming crap of lately. Maybe Mask of Mujula will recapture Nintendo's Stride, I know Zelda 64 helped a whole lot, but that future remains to be seen. And Dolphin, you're guess is as good as mine as to what games they plan to release for it. According to Miyamoto he will be developing a Zelda for Dolphin, but it's been said that the game will be released somewhere around 2003 or 2004. I just hope they don't let all that great hardware that they are touting go to waste.-Odessey Of Hyrule
