The Development of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 พ.ค. 2024
- Season 6 Episode 1
This season of Legendary Adventures Podcast is all about The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. In this first episode of Season Six, we'll trace the development starting with the Ura Zelda project, to the year-long development of Majora's Mask.
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0:00 Intro
1:42 Part One Ura Zelda
10:07 Part Two Zelda Gaiden
24:18 Part Three A Tale of Crunch
33:55 Dawn of a New Season
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I almost feel guilty for how much I love this game, knowing the conditions it was created under. Those working conditions were apalling, and I'm glad Nintendo seems to do a better job of scoping out projects now so that kind of crunch can be avoided.
You gotta watch the interview that (totally forgot the guys channel name) did with Jason Leung, the guy who did the English localization for Majoras Mask. It’s crazy how much he ended up rewriting the dialog for the better and it’s really his writing that made the game great imho.
Eeeeeh...
It feels less shitty when its with Nintendo in the 90s, when the number of employees was much smaller, and the higher ups were really in the trenches alongside the development drones.
Nintendo seems like they're pretty decent to their employees overall, at least by huuuuuge corporation standards.
Yes, it was developer crunch, but it seems like they weren't paid peanuts, had their contracts finished, and then thrown back to the streets like is industry standard these days. I wouldn't lose sleep over enjoying it, because overall this seems to have been a stepping stone for things to improve at the company.
Oh, please. Bleed that heart elsewhere, you dingus. 🥱
This game shaped who I am as a person
Edge lord
This game was difficult for me when I was a boy 😅
Real. Ocarina of Time did for me, brethren. Same with Fable 2, Kingdom Hearts, and Minecraft.
@@demixed Kingdom Hearts was definitely like that for me.
@@PaddyDAngelohow does my statement make me an edgelord?
my longest 'yeah boy' ever
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That was my biggest “yeah boy” ever.
You are literally my favorite channel right now
Same
That is why MM is my favorite Zelda game and one of my favorite games of all time. It is one of the most human games to exist. You can feel the pressure of time, suffering, and anguish felt by the developers when making that game, and you see that medium through their eyes, even if you haven't had that experience. MM is also very unique in its gameplay and thus I can't help but appreciate it. It is a product of stress and time crunch, not felt by quality but by its atmosphere. I'm really excited for this season!
Really struggling to get into the game after ocarina. Don t see the hype
Might not be in the right place in your life for it rn. I played it when I was super stressed with irl stuff and it resonated. Couldn't imagine playing it when i was doing well@@johngibson821
It's the world and characters. Termina makes hyrule seem boring. Genuinely one of the few games I've ever played to make side quests fun@@johngibson821
@@johngibson821it’s dope, the side quests are pretty cool too and some of them lead into a big chain of side quest stories, and the dark mood throughout. And no one really sees Link like a hero, just some kid in a town where everyone’s going to die
I remember playing majoras mask as a 12 year old on the n64 when it came out. Playing that and ocarina of time were some of my best memories of that time 😊
Me too.
Man, between Clock Town’s civil and technological advancement, emotional depth of characters and intrigue of Ikana and its history, it will never not amaze me this game was made in a year.
It definitely smooths over some of the series's other anachronisms, like the telephones of Link's Awakening, or friggin neon lights and jukebox of OoT.
It somehow says "Yeah, you can have this level of tech and be a great Zelda game" and paved the way for BotW in particular to feel so good
Wow, I thought I knew a lot about the development of this game, but you went above and beyond with your research here.
I find it fascinating how Miyamoto was so fixed on the idea of what we would call "DLC" and "Live-Services" today, to the point that he would demand a game to be made in such a short amount of time. With this context in mind, it may also explain why Aonuma decided to expand what was planned as BotW DLC in Tears of the Kingdom and gave the team several years of development time.
Even with the knowledge that this game was made with crunch (a practice that should never be encouraged), this is still my favourite Zelda due to the emotional weight it's story carries, and after this banger of an opening, I'm looking forward to seeing how you will cover the rest of the game.
Keep up the great work ^_^
The opening music still send shivers trough my spine.
Same.
You did an excellent job with this video and now have the most accurate video when it comes to the lost expansion for Ocarina of time. I was very happy to collaborate with you on it. I am looking forward to seeing your next series on Majora's Mask. :)
I've been going through your development videos and I have to say, I really appreciate that you properly cite all your sources and give credit to your quotations. Well done.
Majora's Mask is a labor rights violation.
....and yet I love it
“You’ve met with a Terrible Fate haven’t you?”
“Hehehehehe” 😈
I would highly discourage playing the WiiU port of this game for your playthrough! The input lag, as well as incorrect control stick sensitivity, are enough the spoil the experience for even the most casual player. If you have a modded WiiU, or are able to mod it, I would recommend to install the original Wii virtual console port of MM onto the WiiU's "virtual" Wii. Basically any way to experience MM is going to be more enjoyable than the WiiU virtual console version.
I cant believe it's been 2 months since I found your channel, you weekly uploads are always part of my wednesday breakfast, thank you so much for the effort you put on the podcasts, it really makes you feel the magic that only zelda can give
I love all of the primary sources and quotes! It makes it feel so true idk how to explain it. Like these are real people who made the game which obvs is true but it’s easy to forget lol
I wish Nintendo would license books on these games that cover all the topics you put into these game analysis - and actually show some of the early concept art, what influenced them, etc. I absolutely LOVE the behind the scenes stuff for my favorite games, especially Zelda (pre-Skyward Sword anyway), Sonic, and Kirby, and I'd be super interested in the background of Mario, Luigi's Mansion, etc. But I'm not holding my breath.
Pretty cool how the devs added in things to the games themes and mechanics to what they were facing in real life. Like time away from family and facing a tough deadline.
Such a unique game and imo OoT and MM are my two favorite zelda games. Above BotW and ToTK imo.
I'm going to replay MM along your podcast like I did with OoT. I still remember the simpler days the first time I played through it. I honestly feel like I remember it like it was yesterday and not 20+ years 😅
According to Did You Know Gaming's video on Majora, there were more examples of stuff from real life being put in the game!
For example, the construction workers in South Clock Town ruminating about needing to stay up to work and wondering if something would be done in time were directly written by the devs feeling the same thing - or Anju and Kafei's wedding during an apocalypse being inspired by their attendance of a staff member's wedding during a time when North Korea was firing missiles over Japan.
I just learned from this that Andre Braugher has died.
I originally dreaded Majora's Mask because I was extremely bad at handling stress about the deadline, even before playing. However since then I've been telling people to give it a chance, because after the initial start it really does not play such a limiting role rather than facilitate the manipulation of the story. It has become my favourite for the dark themes and curious soundtrack, it just has this special vibe to it that Ocarina of Time could never have. I view Ocarina of Time as this great classic fantasy adventure, exciting but nothing too crazy, everything's just the right way. Majora on the other hand is like an adult version of that (like they described) with more complex themes, things that have more depth. There's just more details in it where Ocarina of Time is somewhat shallow world despite having a lot of things outside the main story. Majora is something where you can fully dive into the lives of the people in that world, you're an observer instead of the protagonist. And I still have some mask to figure out, some of them were really tough so the game just keeps on giving. And it's so comfortably compact despite being full of things, and the variety of things it has is so wide. Ocarina of Time is like a teenager crush and Majora is that love that has been building up for decades. It's weird and surprising.
Its incredible how they made a constant time limit just... not matter.
It really adds to the sense of existentialist ennui, because you quickly enter the mindset of "What's the point?" and stop worrying. The clock is just a countdown to the next event you want to have happen, not your doom.
Majora's Mask is one of those games that you expect to fail; you go a complete 180 from the game that sold millions, the team is overstressed, there's a lot of recycled assets from Ocarina, was released in one of the worst moments for the N64, and needed an add-on to even run.
Yet, it's one of the most unique Zelda games there are and it's many people's favorite game.
Really loving the in depth perspectives!
Happened to start our first full OoT playthrough with my wife the same time you came out with those videls, and now just starting MM as well :)
This video was well researched and put together. Also, brings back so many memories of when the game first came out and the experiences I had with it. I am definitely subscribing and checking out your other videos/podcasts. Good luck on this season!
These videos have been a great gem and find for me. You're quickly become one of my favorite channels, if I ever get around to making a video on favorite Hidden Gem channels, I'd love to feature this one near the top!
Great work man, this is awesome!
THE AUDIO SOUNDS GREAT
Incredible. My new favorite channel. Please keep making these
How can you dislike a video like this. Pure passion for the games and great info surrounding a cult classic. Thank you and fantastic work!
I remember I preordered this as soon as I heard about. Tracking all of the different story lines through the three days was a fun challenge. I don’t remember ever finding it more challenging than OoT. (Those water temples, though… OoT was still worse than MM.) I definitely got all of the masks and “easy-mode”d the final fight. I still have my pre-ordered cart and OG N64 in storage. Maybe some day I’ll be able to pull those out and give this another play through.
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YES DUDE I was so hype for this video coming out
Really awesome and deep dive into Majora's. Please keep making phenomenal content like this 🙏
It's funny how their reason for not doing a week was because no one could remember all 7 days, but even as an adult i still basically only remember the first day in majoras mask, every other day is just blank to me.
Like the lost woods area is one that i can easily navigate day 1 by heart without the monkey, but day 2 or 3? I'm lost. Same goes for anything else that really changes drastically.
Oh yes baaaaby!!! Majora Mask is one of my favorite and most unique game i have played, i Love it! I can't wait for you to cover this with your amazing and wonderful videos!
Thank you I enjoyed this. Never saw your channel and wasn’t sure I would enjoy this.
11:56 Hence we have one of the greatest Zelda games ever
Making the Part 4 title black text on a white background, like the Dawn of a New Day title, was a nice touch. This has been a fun project to follow please keep going!
Majoras Mask is still one of my top 5 favourite Zelda games and I honestly never heard of the 64 dd until a few years ago I’m glad it never caught on! The thing just looks like a head ache
Wow I'm glad they decided to do the 3ds remake after all. It has its issues but at the time it was the only way I could play it and now it's up there as one of my favorite Zelda games
Can't wait! Love these.
My favorite Zelda game of all time. I have the Majoras Mask tattooed on my arm. I really hope the next Zelda is a BotW-like but based in Termina instead of Hyrule
To deliver something so rich and deep with meaning in a single year is surely one of entertainment's greatest achievements
Oh my goodness! I didn't know they had to work so strenuously and stressfully like that! Poor things. I appreciate their hard work so much it was a big part of my childhood as was OOT. I still replay the game to this day from time to time. For only a crushingly short year deadline they did a great job on it. again thank you for sharing this information! I enjoyed this video very much.
Fantastic video, concise and very interesting. Just subscribed!
What was promised in Ura Zelda was not Ocarina of time with cows in the walls of jabu jabu, we were promised new dungeons and new items.
The cows on the wall thing is from Master Quest
@@NI-ko5kt That would be my point, Master Quest is not what we were promised from Ura Zelda.
I did not know about the Chinese opera inspirations for the music- I hear it now. So cool!
Toys R Us sent my brother and I a VHS showing the upcoming Majora's Mask game and I couldn't wait to play it. We managed to get the gold holographic cartridge. I still have it to this day along with an OoT with the early mirror shield.
I also got the Masterquest disc when I pre-ordered Wind Waker and then again got the 4-game disc that included OoT and MM when I preordered Twilight Princess for Gamecube. Those were a big deal to me as online game availability hadn't come to market yet so I got to replay those N64 games on a GameCube controller.
Good memories.
Great video!
Zelda OoT & MM on N64 are lovingly crafted masterpieces
Great video! Nerrel has a great video on why MM3DS didn't do so well. Cheers!
Also it's worth noting that Majoras mask 3d isn't a remake, it's a remaster.
A remaster is when they take old or existing code/assets and put them towards a new game, even if a fraction of what was in the original was actually in majoras mask, it's still considered a remaster due to it having to rely on the base of the old game to have it run.
A remake is when they take the concept, take nothing else from the old game and basically build it back up from scrap, remaking it.
Grezzo previously lied about this and claimed OOT3D was being built from the ground up but after people actually looked into it they basically discovered it's just a badly patched version of OOT using spaghetti code and duct tape to make it look nicer. They were so lazy with patching it that they legit just watched one single speedrun, patched out all of the glitches from that one run and called it a day, and that's why they also lied about putting glitches back into the game purposefully, it's so if you find one that existed in OOT you won't think "huh i wonder if this was actually a remaster" but instead think "ah classic grezzo, always looking out for those speedrunners".
its quite unbelievable they made possibly the best zelda game in just 1 year
i can only imagine what the game could have looked like if they took more time
meanwhile tears of the kingdom took 6 years
This just goes to show how much effort they put into what goes on under the hood.
For some reason, people keep writing off TotK as just a BotW DLC, but if you've even touched a physics engine, the fact that they did what they did, as well as they did, on that goddamned toaster of a console, is absolute black magic.
It should be a fucking buggy nightmare, with people Noclipping out of the world, a Hylian Space Program, and so many teeth.
But its buttery smooth, whereas Bethesda's been using the same engine for decades and still can't stop the same damn bugs from happening.
And ladders are hot new tech.
Meanwhile, Majora's Mask is pure art.
They had the pigments ground, the brushes bound, and canvas stretched, and all they needed to do was paint.
Nintendo have some really incredible developers.
Good Job bro
Ura Zelda?? No, YOU'RE a Zelda!
I always liked this game above OoT for trying a different whole approach to the traditional Zelda formula, especially since this is as unrelated as it could from Hyrule and the Triforce plotline. This game felt much more alive in comparison, the NPC's actually feel like characters that participate in this story, and they're not just background people like in OoT, even the dungeons feel much more unique, and so much more I could say about this game that has been said already. For me, this game opened the franchise to a new frontier where new storylines and settings could've been made further from the cyclical "Hyrulean strive of the gods and evils from the land", by having Link as a wandering protagonist embarking in new adventures. I don't blame Aonuma or Miyamoto for sticking to the basics always, after all the Triforce, Hyrule, Princess Zelda and the royal family represent the epic core of the series, but I think they could just do much more if they actually dared to go beyond the basic premises, and this game truly shows this.
Great video Sir! 👌🏽👍🏽🗡️🛡️
as I kid I was less interested in this one partly because it looked so much like Ocarina, but also because I didn't like having to be young link after previously being adult link. all the themes went over my head.
interesting stuff. i subscribe. thank you
Majora's Mask is the Crash Twinsanity of the Zelda series
That Deku dream coincidence is wild!!
Amazing work compiling all the interviews, this gives great insight on my favorite game of all time!
Also I would strongly suggest that you don't play this on the Wii U Virtual Console. It has horrible input lag, control sensitivity, the screen is darkened for no reason (across the entire virtual console games) and the game itself lags much more than other versions except maybe GameCube. As Yordleton suggested, it would be best to play it on the Wii U's "virtual Wii VC", but anything else would be more enjoyable.
Thank you so much for making this video! I got this recommended and will for sure be checking out more of your channel.
Great video. This game is my internet pseudonym-sake
Koizumi needs to come back to _Zelda_ 👌
I really enjoy watching your Zelda videos but feel that sometimes the sound quality of your recorded voice (microphone?) could be improved upon?
Nice! Didn’t know he wanted time management restricted to clock town. Glad that didn’t happen.
Do you think you could post your sources in the descriptions of the videos so we can pull them up ourselves?
I put a link to a page with all the links to all the sources I used. That was easiest for me. I did not have them organized in any particular way. I'm already working on my next season, I'll try to get more organized for next season to make sharing the links easier.
Appreciate the response. Good luck on the next season.@@legendaryadventurespod
Where'd you get the image for the thumbnail? Is it concept art?
Yes, it's concept art. I found it in the Zelda wiki. I cropped it, increased the contrast and darkened it up, then colored it.
i was never able to beat this one as a kid xD
I remember Majora’s Mask was marketed as another Ocarina of Time, which probably hurt sales and expectations (mine at least).
The fact that it’s pronounced mujora in Japanese further leads me to believe ghibli isn’t pronounced with a fuckin J sound .
I was the prime demographic for both OoT and MM on N64, and I didn't get MM because it was too soon, too close to the previous Zelda game. OoT was exhausting as it was. I find a lot of people were not ready for another Zelda game.
Agree it was too much after beating OoT. Trying to get used to the new world etc
Wow. The longest development video for one of the shortest development cycles in Zelda history. A beautiful irony of how fast projects take the longest to explain
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I was one of the copies that sold😀
You can tell by the interviews that they were talking about a sequel but there was a language barrier
Groundhog day but I'm Zelda form
It's weird. Back in the early 2000s, after the GameCube was already out alongside Wind Waker, Majora's Mask was my favorite. But my opinion of it has not aged well. I just find the other games more appealing.
Honestly games like Halo or Zelda could veer off to smaller contained stories in the extended lore, he’ll let us play as a new small side character to fit this story and I stg the games would still sell. To offset the time it takes to release a mainline game and coming up with ideas whatever . Like I would LOVED to have played on the Mona Lisa or a game played as a Gordon or some shit . But notnimg like crossbow training nah I mean like legit gameplay like the mainline just reused assets I wouldn’t care
Hey, Legendary Adventures. I am a native Spanish-speaker zelda fan. Would you like me to translate your videos into Spanish to reach more public?
I'd be open to it. You can email me and we can talk more. legendaryadventurespod@gmail.com
@@legendaryadventurespod I did email you.
My longest yesssssss
“and I want to stay alive…” whaaaaat. did bro really mean that?? Or
A remake could be cool 👺
3DS remake
They don’t make them like MM anymore. What I would give for a mm sequel
I daresay that a big part of Undertale's appeal was its very MM-like preoccupation with observing the townsfolk's personalities under a variety of scenarios, from happiness, to apocalypse.
It's definitely more Earthbound and Yume Nikki, but Majora's Mask is definitely a huge part of its DNA, from the constant resets, to the self-aware childlike yet demonic antagonist, to the aforementioned relationship to the civilians of the piece.
And with Deltarune in production, there's at least one game kiiiinda carrying that torch, a bit?
There's so many diverse elements involved with MM though, that there's never going to be a single game like it, because it would invariably feel like a clone.
But seeking out games influenced by specific features and qualities? They're out there.
I'd also point out Ookami off the top of my head, personally, but that's still more of the same era.
I love both OoT and MM.
OoT is definitely my comfort game alongside the first gew gens of Pokemon, but MM is a game that seems to just get better the more time you spend with it.
Its a game that really shouldn't have worked by any account- horrible time crunch, a constant timer, tons of errands, recycled assets up the wazoo, a crying baby Mario moment, escort quests, constantly losing your stuff, losing your sword, an untouchable giggling imp antagonist, more fairy nagging, the list goes on and on...
This game should be complete shit according to all its tropes and the circumstances surrounding its conception.
Yet its regarded as top five on the console, no contest, and top 100 of All Time by many, many gamers, period. If not their personal GoaT.
The epitome of Lightning in a Bottle.
Am I imaging this or is Paul's voice kind of more distant than usual? It sounds like he's coming from "behind" the game sounds and fighting through it instead of being in front of them to reach us, if you understand what I mean
Miyamoto talking about uodating his games to give extra content. But still wont give us a rebuild Hyrule uodate in either BoTW or ToTK
These comments aged very pooerly.
Ocarina was far superior though. That game changed the world for a lot of people.
Nice video, but those swiping video transitions get a bit annoying and make me somewhat dizzy.
This channel rules.
This game sucks.
That's just, like, your opinion, man