

Sure, Symphony of the mask is by far the best of the lot but the others also added so much extra content it would be a shame to miss out on. If you liked Cadence of Hyrule and were thinking about getting some DLC, I would strongly advise getting the full pack instead of cherry-picking one over the other. This mode in which you are matched against hordes of enemies can also be played as a standalone version, also opening it up to the other characters. During your playthrough of the Skull Kid story, you’ll encounter the arena for the first time. Another mode that will surely test your skills, is Arena mode.

Thinking ahead and planning your way around the puzzles and enemies isn’t for the faint of heart. Puzzle mode throws some challenging rooms at you to conquer. Besides the new story arc, they also added some extras. With 5 to 7 hours of extra content added to the base game, you can’t really go wrong with this DLC. With the new abilities and some tactical thinking, I could survive (barely) this time around. In the base game that would’ve meant game over for sure. I found myself multiple times being ganged by multiple enemies during my playthrough. That’s probably why you can only play a new adventure with way more enemies than before. With these newly acquired abilities, you would be overpowered in the original game. This makes for some more tactical changes based on the situation. Switching is done by pressing the shoulder button and can be done on the fly. Besides the special ability these masks grant you, you also get a different attack power. Donning the Zora mask for instance gives you the ability to swim while another mask lets you shoot projectiles. All these extra powers will be useful if you want to survive this new adventure. To do so, you’ll need to find different masks that give you different powers. Apparently, that’s the idea behind introducing skull kid.Īs Skull Kid, you get tasked to defeat Ganon by the great Deku Tree. Switching on the go would sound awesome to me. All these characters have their merits and flaws. When you pick a previously released character you more or less need to stick with it throughout the whole game. Symphony of the masks is a whole new adventure with new challenges. The previous character additions offered a new way to play but could only be used to go through the original story. This time around the new character gets its own story and a new map to explore. Symphony of the mask adds yet another character to the game: Skull Kid from Majora’s Mask. With a whole new story and a few new modes added this is by far the best addition to the original game. Cadence of Hyrule just got a whole lot bigger with the release of the third and final DLC: Symphony of the Mask.
