The Legend of Zelda sequence has a number of funky titles — Twilight Princess, A Hyperlink Between Worlds, The Wind Waker, and the record goes on, stuffed with names that simply sound cool. However maybe the best of the bunch is Majora’s Masks. It is so stuffed with thriller. What does it imply? The place did it come from?
For a great few years now, we believed that the title (no less than, the Japanese “Mujura’s Masks” one) was born out of a mash-up between the surname of the sport’s artwork director, Takaya Imamura, and the 1995 Robin Williams film Jumanji. That was the story in response to sequence producer Eiji Aonuma, but it surely seems that Imamura remembers issues barely in another way (thanks, VGC).
In a latest interview with VGC, the legendary Nintendo character designer defined that the Mujura title the truth is got here from a mixture of his surname and his love of a special movie, Jurassic Park:
Sure, that was initially primarily based on my identify. I wished to make use of the ‘Jura’ half as a result of I’m an enormous fan of Jurassic Park. ‘Ima-Jura’… that’s the place the identify got here from.
This model of the story definitely holds collectively a bit of higher — the “Jura” of Jurassic Park is unquestionably nearer to the title than the “Juma” of Jumanji — however be it Robin Williams or Sam Neill (although everyone knows that Goldblum is the true star there), it’s clear that the artwork director was carefully concerned within the title’s creation.
Additionally within the interview, Imamura confessed that he hoped to work on yet one more Zelda recreation earlier than his retirement in 2021, although the chance by no means happened. The artwork for this one would have been “extra distinctive, with a bit of twist” on the modern-day model, bringing issues again to the darker tone of Majora’s Masks — now simply image that…
You should definitely try the total interview on VGC for all of Imamura’s solutions.
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[source videogameschronicle.com]
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