majora's mask & link's awakening lover. koizumi game shill. hero of time scholar. oldhead

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do not tag anything as linkeduniverse. i do not make linkeduniverse posts. linkeduniverse is an invasive species

posts of mine that i like:

Majora's Mask: Rememberance, heroism, and why the Hero's Shade is a poorly written ending to an already concluded character arc. (2)

Fierce Deity, Skull Kid, and onigokko

Termina is real

It's BotW, too.

see. ocarina of time was never this perfect and untouchable work of fiction, and that's not to say it didn't have genuinely fantastic thematic qualities, just that it often left much to be desired as you're sent off from one destination to the next. a modern adaptation has the time, budget, and privilege to sink its teeth into characters and their dynamics, turn unturned stones, etc. which i think could be interesting to see, and i will continue to be cautiously optimistic.

but weirdly enough, i can't help but think. at what cost is this sudden expansion of the story?

ocarina of time, the heartfelt story about the loss of childhood and growing up in a world not meant for you, is a very simply told story. but it's a fairytale-esque, storybook-like simplicity that really works for it.

and it's this certain quality in particular that i'm always going on about, particularly in conjunction with the more intimate narrative of majora's mask. i always felt as if, in passing the baton from ocarina to majora, it were changing cameramen. shifting the pov from a legend to a deeply personal account, in a way that felt (perhaps unintentionally) brilliant to me.

there's something about what toby fox had said during the undertale anniversary stream that comes to mind here. about how authors wont tell you everything, but that there is still value in taking it upon yourself to look "behind the curtain," and how your interaction with art is just as important as the words themselves. about how art is a conversation.

so then, the more you are told, the less you are able to infer for yourself — it becomes a one-sided conversation.

at the same time, i don't feel entirely unhappy about this premise. like i said, granted that they don't completely drop the ball (i know they will at least a little bit) there will at least be some fun to be had, new details to explore. i personally found it to be more productive to see this project not as something attempting to be a replacement or even a "definitive" version of the classic, but as a supplemental side thing. the original story is always going to exist, and there isn't a universe in which the remake becomes the better version of the story.