The Song Of Healing Stole One Zelda's Lullaby Power
The Song of Healing from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask has something odd in common with Zelda's Lullaby from Ocarina of Time, making these iconic pieces of magical music unusual for the series. The Nintendo 64 Zelda outings both grant Link mystical powers and puzzle solutions in the forms of songs that he can play on his ocarina, these songs functioning as spells or passwords depending on where and to whom he plays them. Some of these songs have multiple uses, but it's rare that they share any, which makes one niche use shared between these two particularly notable songs stand out all the more.
For the most part, the context and utility behind why each of these songs is important is very different. Zelda's Lullaby grants Link access to many of Ocarina of Time's most important story beats and locations through its status as a song that only people with close connection to the royal family are meant to know. Meanwhile, the Song of Healing is said to cleanse its listener's soul, and it comes into play on multiple occasions throughout Majora's Mask to lift curses and soothe the spirits of dead and dying characters. This grants Link access to new areas as well, as the song turns those characters' afflictions into new masks for the player to use. However, the power these two songs share has no apparent relation to either's lore or primary use.
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In one of its more unusual uses, Zelda's Lullaby repairs damaged signs when played near them — and that's the ability that the Song of Healing reuses from Ocarina of Time in Majora's Mask. The Legend of Zelda as a series rewards players for interacting with environmental objects; and while attacking signs doesn't yield health or
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