The Legend of Zelda collection has a whole lot of funky titles — Twilight Princess, A Link Between Worlds, The Wind Waker, and the checklist goes on, stuffed with names that simply sound cool. But maybe the best of the bunch is Majora’s Mask. It’s so filled with thriller. What does it imply? Where did it come from?
For a great few years now, we believed that the title (no less than, the Japanese “Mujura’s Mask” 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 collection producer Eiji Aonuma, nevertheless it seems that Imamura remembers issues barely otherwise (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 mix of his surname and his love of a totally different movie, Jurassic Park:
Yes, 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 actually holds collectively a little bit 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 carefully concerned within the title’s creation.
Also within the interview, Imamura confessed that he hoped to work on yet 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 a little bit twist” on the modern-day fashion, bringing issues again to the darker tone of Majora’s Mask — now simply image that…
Be certain to take a look at the total interview on VGC for all of Imamura’s solutions.
