The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is not a typical Zelda game. To capitalize on the success of The Ocarina of Time  (OoT), Nintendo gave Shigeru Miyamoto, Eiji Aonuma, and their team one year to  create a sequel  using the same assets and engine. Majora's Mask is set in an eerie, dream-like, parallel world appropriately named Termina, populated by doppelgangers of NPCs from OoT. It uses a unique,  Groundhog Day- like, three-day cycle, which Link must keep reseting to gain more time to save Termina from its heavenly doom. An opening cinematic shows the Skull Kid (a minor character in OoT), wearing Majora’s Mask, steal Link's horse and ocarina, then turn him into a Deku Scrub. The mask empowers him to make the moon, with a disturbing grin on its face, hurtle toward Termina. A strange mask salesman, from whom the eponymous Mask was stolen, asks Link to get it back. The first part of the game is completed in Deku form, swordless. Though Link fails to reclaim the mask, t...