How to Get Majora's Mask in Tears of the Kingdom

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has a lot of callbacks to previous games in the Zelda timeline. From beloved outfits from previous titles – such as the Ocarina of Time or Twilight Princess armour sets – to mementoes from past companions, TotK's Hyrule is chock-full of things to make you feel plenty nostalgic. Above all others, one item is sure to be instantly recognisable to many players, even to those who haven't played many other Zelda titles. That item is the infamous Majora's Mask.

Majora's Mask is a classic bit of imagery in the Zelda franchise, serving as the face of one of the most beloved and recognisable games in the series. From its creepy glowing eyes to its distinct shape and psychedelic colour palette, Majora's Mask has seared itself into popular gaming culture. And now, you can don it for yourself in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Getting your hands on it, though, will take a good deal of hard work.

Here's where to find Majora's Mask in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and how to conquer the Floating Coliseum area of the Depths.

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Majora's Mask is the main MacGuffin in the beloved Zelda game of the same name – The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask – and has become one of the most iconic and creepy images in all of Zelda's history. It was available in Breath of Wild and has returned in TotK, letting you dress up in the haunted relic of an ancient age as you go about your journey through Hyrule.

While quite weak defensively, Majora's Mask has a pretty unique effect. At the base level, it only has a single point of defence and you cannot enhance it at a Great Fairy Fountain. If that's the case, why wear it over other armour pieces? Well, it effectively serves as one of Kilton's monster masks for nearly everything single monster in the game.

A Cruel, Ancient Relic

With Majora's Mask equipped, you can wander up to a whole swathe of enemy types and they won't do anything to you. As we mentioned, the monster masks you get from Kilton do something similar but for only one type – the Bokoblin Mask lets you blend in with just Bokoblins, and the Lizalfos Mask lets you blend in with the Lizalfos – but Majora's does everything. You can even wander up to groups in the Depths, mine their Zonite and then leave without them raising a single complaint.

As such, this makes Majora's Mask in Tears of the Kingdom a great choice if you just want to wander around Hyrule and explore without worrying about being swarmed by random enemies. To get it, though, you’ll have to go through a fair few challenges beforehand.

I Am One of Them

Majora's Mask is found in the Depths, an expansive underworld beneath Hyrule containing many horrors and treasures alike. To be specific, you need to head to the Floating Coliseum, one of the game's many underground Coliseums. This is actually under the Coliseum Ruins on the Hyrule surface.

The Floating Coliseum is fairly close to one of the major areas of the Depths – the Great Abandoned Mine underneath the Great Plateau – making it pretty easy to get to. To get there in the shortest possible time, head to the Great Plateau North Chasm. Once you touch down, start making your way westward. The path may be a bit rocky, but eventually, you should stumble across the Mu-ustust Lightroot.

This Lightroot is located next to a large body of water, which has the aptly named Floating Coliseum at the centre. Now, you just need to get in and the chest will be yours to claim… or, it will be yours, should you manage to beat the Coliseum's challenge.

Floating Coliseum Location

What is that Coliseum challenge, you may be asking? Well, it's not an easy one. To unlock the chest containing Majora's Mask, you need to defeat several Lynels in one sitting within the Coliseum's walls.

How many Lynels do you have to defeat? 5. You need to beat 5 Lynels in a row. To be specific, you’ll be going up against:

Battling the Lynels

Having to up against one Lynel is already a tough task but having to go against five of them is one of the toughest things in all of Tears of the Kingdom. There are a few saving graces – mainly that TotK will autosave after you beat each Lynel, giving you a checkpoint – but that doesn't mean everything's peachy. Once you enter, you cannot leave and the only additional weapons, shields and materials will come from the Lynels you manage to beat.

As such, preparation is a big factor in overcoming this challenge. Obviously, having as many hearts as possible is going to be a great boon but there are several other things you can do before venturing into the Depths.

Majora's Mask Chest

First and foremost, you need to prepare your armour. No matter what kind of armour set you like to wear, it’ll need to be upgraded to a decent degree to stand a chance against some of those later Lynels. You can upgrade armour by visiting the various Great Fairy Fountains around Hyrule: there are 4 of them in total, which are all located near a stable.

If you have yet to unlock Fairy Fountains, you’ll need to head on over to the Rito Village outskirts in the Hebra area of the map. There, in an abandoned stable, you’ll find the Lucky Clover Gazette where you can take on a job to follow leads regarding where Princess Zelda has disappeared. This unlocks various sidequests at most of the stables but the one you need to go to is the Woodland Stable close to Great Hyrule Forest. The quest here introduces you to a troop of musicians aiming to help bring back the Great Fairies, who have been in hiding since the Upheaval.

The more Fairies you serenade, the higher you can level up your gear. In terms of what gear we recommend, the Champion's Leathers is a good base tunic to use, with a decent defence stat already at the base level. Similarly, Midna's Helmet (which you can get from another Depths Coliseum) is a great pick for this fight as it provides 7 defence while also having one stack of Gloom Resistance. On the whole, though, try and pick what gives you the most defence possible.

Upgrade Your Gear

The other big thing to prepare is your food. Nobody is perfect and you’ll very likely take a good deal of hits while battling against the Lynel hoards. On the surface, this isn't a massive deal: in the Depths, this can spell disaster. Any damage you take in the Depths will cause you to be afflicted with Gloom, blocking out the hearts you lose and making them unable to be healed. In a long, drawn-out fight against several boss-tier enemies, you can see how this can be very bad.

Fortunately for you, there is a solution. Sunny food – food prepared with Sundelions – has the unique property of healing Gloom-stricken hearts. The Lynels will hit from anywhere between 3 to 10 hearts in a single swing so preparing a bunch of sunny food lets you get back into the action without being bogged down by the Gloom.

The easiest way to make sunny food is to have at least 3-4 Sundelions in a single meal, then fill the final few slots with food like meat, vegetables and other resources. This should create a good balance of meals that will keep you alive, keep your hearts plentiful and stave off the Gloom.

Finally, if you want to practice your combat skills before undertaking the Lynel Coliseum challenge in Tears of the Kingdom, you’re in luck. Across both the Depths and the surface of Hyrule are several roaming Lynels who you can battle to learn their moves. Every Lynel type shares the same basic moveset, with only a few exceptions that change based on their currently equipped weapon (one-handed or two-handed).

As such, battling one of these Lynels will be a great way to test yourself and get used to them before diving in head first. Parrying and perfect dodging are both extremely important to your survival in the Coliseum, so making sure you know what moves you can easily parry and what ones you can easily dodge is something you want to know before you fight 5 Lynels. This also allows you to earn powerful Lynel materials and gear by defeating them: in particular, the Lynel Bows are some of the best in the entire game, firing three arrows every shot. You can even combine this with Fuse to create three Bomb-arrows, three Keese-eye-arrows and more high-power goodness.

There are Lynels all across Hyrule but the easiest one to get to is actually right outside the Floating Coliseum's doors. In the small grove outside the Floating Coliseum will be a Red Lynel in stone body armour waiting for for you. The final Lynel you fight will also have stone armour, giving you a good chance to test what weapons and techniques work best for stripping away that protection.

Prepare well, dive back into the Depths, suffer through the Lynel gauntlet and, eventually, you’ll be able to claim Majora's Mask as your own.

That was where to find Majora's Mask in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, as well as how to take on the Floating Coliseum challenge.

Jack is a Creative Writing English graduate with a passion for writing about games. He primarily writes about Destiny 2, Genshin Impact and Xenoblade Chronicles but is especially keen on RPGs, looters and action games. KeenGamer is the third publication he has written for.

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