The Legend of Zelda sequence has a whole lot of funky titles — Twilight Princess, A Hyperlink Between Worlds, The Wind Waker, and the listing goes on, crammed with names that simply sound cool. However maybe the good 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 very good few years now, we believed that the title (at the least, 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 based on sequence producer Eiji Aonuma, nevertheless it seems that Imamura remembers issues barely in a different 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 totally different 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 just a little higher — the “Jura” of Jurassic Park is certainly 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 intently concerned within the title’s creation.
Additionally within the interview, Imamura confessed that he hoped to work on another Zelda sport earlier than his retirement in 2021, although the chance by no means happened. The artwork for this one would have been “extra distinctive, with just a little twist” on the modern-day model, bringing issues again to the darker tone of Majora’s Masks — now simply image that…
Be sure you try the total interview on VGC for all of Imamura’s solutions.
