What inspired Majora's Mask's Moon?

[@serenepastel]

Now i just want to see the moon happy. It deserves nice things after all that stress.

[@levismith4174]

Yeah sure does:)

[@CoreeTartufo]

A spin off dating sim

[@Jotassium_Vilanova]

​@@CoreeTartufo Okay limits.

[@johannaappleforest7482]

@@CoreeTartufono

[@CoffeeMan678]

my favorite part of this game is on the final day, while happy music is playing, you can hear ominous darker music in the back

[@thegino64]

That and the fact that it was sped up is what made me feel so tense while on clock town

[@thelegendofner0]

You can hear it in the music of this short

[@overwatchtheater8165]

All 3 days actually. It just gets progressively more intense

[@Capone306]

I hear that one "ICELAND 1" sample that plays at the beginning of Final Hours

[@MatrixEvolution17]

I always liked the way the moon looked in the N64 version, you could never really tell if it was angry or in pain

[@IceYetiWins]

Much better than the 3ds version

[@spartanq7781]

​@@IceYetiWinsThe 3ds version butchered the game so much even the freaking moon was affected.

[@pemanilnoob]

@@spartanq7781the 3DS version is as if you put the n64 game into a bunch of syrup. The textures are all smoother, but more plain and… glossy. The movement is slow and sluggish, as if walking through thick syrup. The story can also be said to be somehow, sweetened, more kid friendly.

[@GalekC]

@@pemanilnoob that last bit is to be expected of most modern nintendo iterations of the games from this time period

[@pemanilnoob]

@@GalekC unfortunately

[@benjamindel3515]

The music : 😇🥰 The moon : 👹💀

[@GalekC]

the low parts of the bgm say it like it is

[@cheesypies]

Yeah some of the low tones are forboding. Like wearing a happy mask

[@OddestSloth]

Each day clock town's song changes, first is really happy, second day is slightly darker but still happy-ish, and on the third day the dark tones are more dominant pushing its way into the melody. It's interesting that the main chorus in the "happy" bit of the music is played by an ocarina, possibly symbolizing that Link is the last hope of termina as the dark and grim fate plays out? Koji Kondo really was a musical genius. It really saddened me that the newer Zelda games, especially botw, aren't as deep and memorable as the ones Koji Kondo worked on. I'm not biased by nostalgia either, I'm a Gen Z lol.

[@kaushaltushar]

​@@OddestSloth I'd like to add just one small minor detail. Everyday the song's tempo shifts by 0.5 or so and on the final day the tempo shifts twice, once during the day and once during the night at around final 6 hours. So the final tempo is about 3x from the first day and is meant to not only depict but also to set in a sense of panic in the players playing which I think it really does because of how used to you get to day 1 theme. It is a very similar concept to "The halls of mountain king".

[@OddestSloth]

​@@kaushaltusharWow, that's very cool, thanks for adding that! :]

[@rpgrage7711]

MM is still by far my favorite zelda game everything about it is so good imo

[@dem_apples]

Same here

[@Mikael.8]

Disagreeing is not an option for me

[@bellamin4549]

I found my people.

[@peterschelvis6975]

Its the best😊😊

[@ShadowWizard224]

It’s definitely top 3

[@arc7375]

I believe in the game, there’s a piece of dialogue that states the moon having a face was a recent development people had noticed, implying Majora, puppetting the SkullKid, was the one that fashioned the face on the moon. I could be mistaken however.

[@P0chuL1ver]

Wouldn't that be like in the beginning of the game?

[@aleanddragonITA]

Could just be that The Moon hides its Face most of the Time If the Moon having a Face was a recent thing then There's should be no depictions of a Happy Moon's Face

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

​@@P0chuL1ver It would be from a random NPC's dialogue. It's not mentioned by the Happy Mask Salesman.

[@P0chuL1ver]

@@OtakuUnitedStudio Do you know where and how he is?

[@JacktheRah]

I think that may be a false memory. Given that all other NPCs don't mention the face of the moon I would assume that that was normal for them.

[@c.w35t87]

I remember the first time I saw the moon while moving the camera and gave me a fright for a hot minute.

[@ChefForte]

Now I understand why that meteor looked so much like Termina's moon. Thanks man!

[@graysonmcdonald8]

What it reminds me of is Georges Melies’s set designs of the moon in his early films

[@hatti...]

I'm not sure the moon smiling would be any less creepy 😅

[@ArthurKH358.2]

It worked for Soul Eater

[@lordenma4449]

Yet again do you see the symbol onto the majora's office it looks like the moon but he's happy The moon tears are there out of joy but this tear isn't out of joy it's out of sadness the moon has emotions and gets controlled by its own will and i think after the moon gets away i think the moon gets back to his old place where he was before majora set him there

[@HyruletheCheetah]

Wow I had no idea. The more you know

[@Mrgutxxsparda16]

The moon without a face gives me a strange feeling, I can't explain it, but I feel that without the face it seems more bizarre and scary.

[@Supasmartguy]

When will you release part 3 of the classic enemies reimagined series? I was also that thinking that maybe you should try to contact Nintendo and have them use your ideas for classic Zelda enemy redesigns that you showed off in them in a potential third open-world Zelda game.

[@codster279]

That would be cool but i’m sure it’s hard to contact nintendo and actually have them look at your specific art. There is already so much art of classic enemies that i’m sure nintendo sees and perhaps they’ve seen zeltiks! but in the end of the day i don’t think nintendo will take fans designs directly but im sure they’re inspired but the thousands of gorgeous pieces of art!!

[@Supasmartguy]

@@codster279 Nintendo contacted Zeltik before the release of tears of the kingdom and invited him to play a demo version of it.

[@mariomario5234]

​​@@codster279i'm sure there would be copyright/legal issues with it too

[@christopherfleetwood5252]

Link: (plays Oath to Order) Madara: But what are you going to do about the second one?

[@King_Juju1404]

Thank you Bru do more of these

[@WideMouth]

I always had a headcanon theory that the moon in Majora’s Mask actually doesn’t have a face, but rather that it’s meant to represent Ganondorf’s face as some sort of poetic revenge against Link. Maybe Link’s the only one who can see it, and it’s due to some kind of paranoia about Ganondorf taking revenge against him. Or maybe Majora’s Mask itself has a connection to Demise’s hatred. And that power, when used to pull down the moon, manifests in the form of Ganondorf’s face

[@arc7375]

Termina is not a mirror to Hyrule where everyone has a Terminan counterpart.

[@WideMouth]

@@arc7375 I mean…. It literally is. Don’t know what to tell you

[@arc7375]

@@WideMouthIt’s parallel, not a mirror world. It exists alongside Hyrule. It’s not a mirror image of it.

[@dummyyogurt5375]

​​​@@WideMouththen why isn't zelda in termina, if everyone has a terminan counterpart ? what about impa, Ganondorf, the king of hyrule, the zora king, and the kokiri ? Termina is a parallel world, but doesn't necessarily have counterparts of everyone in hyrule.

[@Mari_Izu]

Doesn't look like Ganondorf at all lol Specially the N64 version.

[@sabym.2921]

"I...I shall consume. Consume...Consume everything."

[@evansgate]

Majoras Mask just had this incredibly dark and weird feel to it. It’s really impressive because it’s directly after one of the most acclaimed games of all time and still managed to be unique and different. If it were today we’d just get OoT2

[@FoodumsCCS]

It loops PERFECTLY :0

[@ianmclaughlin6753]

This game is a masterpiece 👏

[@Vegito_127]

I love Everything in this Video💙

[@RacingSnails64]

You'd think *the moon* slowly crashing into earth would've been memorable and iconic enough, but then some crazy bastard said "LET'S SLAP A DISTURBING AND UNSETTLING FACE ONTO IT!"

[@SwaggMasta0]

I'm loving these shorts! Keep it up!

[@dem_apples]

I originally started out with BoTW as my first Zelda game. My friend told me the Majora Mask moon was the old original Blood Moon.

[@bananensplit69]

Not played this one. Should I buy it for my 2ds xl?

[@WideMouth]

Yes, it’s a great game (I’d argue it’s in my top 3 zelda games). However, it’s a pretty difficult game

[@quintonconoly]

100% yes

[@bananensplit69]

@WideMouth might have a look at it then. I already know echoes is gonna be a buy so I'll see how much spare cash it'll run me!

[@hatti...]

It's definitely worth it, very unique from other Zelda games and extremely memorable

[@HDGamerofficial]

Definitely, but I’d recommend modding your DS and download the Project Restoration mod for Majora’s Mask 3D! It fixes just about all the issues that the 3D remake had and in my opinion, it’s the definitive way to play Majora’s Mask

[@faith-by-faith]

My man Takaya Imamura is responsible for some of my childhood nightmares, but also contributed to one of my favorite games. I guess it balances out.

[@UpnorthBrayden]

I find it interesting that this game was also made in the Year 2000

[@Envy_May]

that happy moon is scarier than the anguished moon

[@Seif-e3n]

i want a tattoo of that moon on me. Especially my hand.

[@cloudb.1071]

Woah!! 🤯

[@JojoStone1]

I always thought that majora's mask moon was inspired by the moon in the film A Trip To The Moon by George Méliès

[@crashban4t.f.s.b783]

Two words. Tooth Ache

[@keithshockley3443]

I think it was that French moon animation from the late 1800s as where the majora’s mask moon inspiration came from.

[@Sh5rp4others]

Hi zeltik who is a better companion fi or midna?

[@arturoantonio3548]

happy to see youre videos again a lot more often

[@dsb227]

Wow!

[@hgreen8666]

I wish they’d remake this with another Moon, one whose eyes move and mouth too! Different expressions maybe!

[@phrog4567]

Fear and hunger

[@authorbat5562]

I miss Starfox…

[@breadteleporter]

Look forward to watching you grow as a zelda player

[@wayfarer1021]

Best game of all time! ❤

[@alexmeyer6369]

Hello! I have never been SO early 😅

[@gabrielgoes0]

Amazing and interesting content from you, Zeltik, keep up the great work! (just pretend I'm a bot)

[@5h0ckblock]

That's a neat detail. All these years I just thought they wanted the moon to look like Ganondorf.

[@bigben3106]

*reads title of short* Yo mama

[@linkspokemon4114]

I wonder if the moon is suppose to resemble ganondorfs face which would honestly be interesting

[@raviolithebest8644]

Well, I mean, the big-ass nose...

[@Mari_Izu]

It isn't

[@GalekC]

algorithm, thank you. give this moar

[@808Mark]

😮

[@trinahoward2332]

As a kid I had a dream. That's similar to this but I called the death star on its a**

[@ryzekiv7147]

Virgin Sad Moon: “NOOOO I DONT WANNA CRASH INTO TERMINAAA!” Happy Chad Moon: “I’m in a good place I think I’ll stay here.”

[@SunshineTheLover]

id make that face too if i were falling into the atmosphere at ungodly speeds

[@nintendians]

that's one way to put it.

[@clubro8982]

🗿

[@lisawingo-bb7kh]

It also just makes me think of the moon from soul eater which makes me went to see what fan opening of that but a Majora's mask look like please someone make that but yeah I did notice the happy moon faces I new it was supposed to look like the moon but I think that it was happier but when skull kid started to move it it's face change because it's mad and sad that's being moved against it's will which that's sad to know that because I always thought that the moon was creepy and skull kid made it have an evil face Majora's mask and twilight princess are the two darkest Zelda games I know of no I'm not including any new Zelda because I don't know how dark they are my bad but yeah and the Ben drown story doesn't make it any better ❤

[@AdventureRuben]

I always thought it was supposed to symbolize a Ganondorf connection

[@Kainlarsen]

It looks more like it's grimacing with dread and horror as it gets pulled in.

[@Tazerboy_10]

Hmmm...

[@OLIVER427]

A celestial Cataclysm? Man, I hope the moon wasn't moving At The Speed of Light.

[@Mr.zelda.fan.tiktok]

I have a thery what if link ends up in links awakening when he falls in to the rift because we know that links awakening was all a dream

[@Bridgeburnerrrrr]

All I thought as a kid when i saw it the first time and still can't un see it is Freddy Kruger 😅 a ashey Freddy

[@adnnebs]

Put the subtitles higher we can’t read them

[@CreamDollYT]

Idk about the rest of the audience but I can read the subtitles just fine

[@adnnebs]

@@CreamDollYT the details of the channel are over it for me. The Zeltik logo and the title of the video

[@CreamDollYT]

@adnnebs same for me too, but I can read them fine anyways despite that

[@lovingfool2060]

It never really occurred to me that it's grimacing and angry because it is a happy entity that is being forced to do something it wouldn't. The fact you have 3 days at all instead of immediately falling May because it's trying to stop itself?

[@CaptainFALKEN]

Moon is from Star Fox. Cool. We either need Fox or Sasuke to blow that thing up

[@allanswain2425]

23rd

[@InredibleMrH]

Hm, maybe. I think it’s far more likely inspired by A Trip to the Moon, to be honest. I don’t feel like most video game devs and artists in the 1990s were inspired by other games; I think it was more common for them to be inspired by films, books, etc.

[@toiletseat777]

Did you miss the part where he said the art director for Majora's Mask was the same one who designed Star Fox?

[@benchervet494]

The Moon in MM was obviously inspired by the Moon in Méliès' movie. Strange that a youtuber soley focused on the Zelda series doesn't know that.

[@cinnamonedits4135]

I just thought the moon was supposed to be Ganondorf simply because of the nose and eyes 😭

[@lowtaperfadeeeee]

The three day cycle was inspired by stress for the one year deadline to get the game made

[@OLIVER36758]

I think that that's not actually the real moon because they destroy it at the end and that's not exactly good for termana if it had no moon

[@Mari_Izu]

It's not destroyed, it goes back to where it's supposed to be in a rainbow trail.

[@theforgottenshadow1]

The N64 version looked more scared. The 3ds version looks angry.

[@MelonVlogs1234]

It's not a milkshake it's horchata

[@TheUnkGamer]

I feel like Fox caused the events of Majoras Mask to happen

[@ZdinoYT2]

Why are you posting shorts

[@TheJaggedCarpet]

It’s summer. Posting pants would be too hot.

[@ZdinoYT2]

@@TheJaggedCarpet never commenting on a video EVER again

[@Link-Link]

Lmao this made me laugh fr😂​@@TheJaggedCarpet

[@Mari_Izu]

​@@ZdinoYT2 And that's good, because what a silly comment you did.

[@trebmaster]

They need to reprise Majora. It has been far too long. The next 3D game must have it.

[@Mauricio0973]

its terrifying to think the moon was "alive" even before getting transformed by Majora lmao

[@lordenma4449]

I think the moon had still this face but instead of anger it was full of happiness the moon tears are out of joy but i think the moon was placed there by majora and he gets controlled by its own will