Continuing my delve into animated superhero movies, I watched Batman Gotham by Gaslight and it was great. It's a batman movie set in the 19th century. It really goes to show how a compelling, well thought out, grounded story* about stopping a serial killer is much more effective than the jumble of references and over the top world threatening plots in Justice League movies. And live DC movies for that matter. Substance over showmanship.
On that note Majora's Mask is easily my favorite Zelda. It was much more than a story about saving the land. MM took several characters you could interact with and alter their course of events over 3 days and ultimately explored the human condition when faced with seemingly certain death. Some characters like the carpenters were in denial. Some like Anju chose love over life. It's a masterpiece of world building and psychology. There are several zeldas I'd give a perfect 10/10 score to but MM stands out even among them. They didn't build a game; they built a
world where (nearly) every character had a life and story.
PS I'm talking about the original and do think they messed up several things on the remake as described in
this video.
*Except one of the red herrings was BS :/
