Why Do You like Your Favorite Game?

[StarSock64]

I've always gotten a light-hearted yay generic happy adventure vibe from every Zelda, except MM has those cutscenes and moments that just seem "darker" to me, and a soundtrack that seems to emphasize it. It kind of carries out a theme of death and impending doom throughout it when the other zeldas really don't. tbh I'd say it's more weird than dark, but I mean if we're talking relatively then MM has the moon, those bizarre somber scenes, people dying to give you masks, the happy mask salesman, the cutscene when you let time run out, the deku statue etc. Other zeldas rarely have even one dark scene in my experience.

It's not a huge step up and MM obviously doesn't come close to being the darkest game ever, but I do think it has an interesting and strange vibe to it, so that's probably what he meant.