Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Woodfall Temple
Musical analysis of the dungeons from The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask written by Koji Kondo. We will explore the cultural influences of a seminal Nintendo 64 game
Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Dungeon Cues
Metamorphosis Time to put the Sonata of Awakening into practice in order to awaken the Woodfall Temple sleeping beneath the mountain, a temple that will take blatant inspiration from real world pyramids; the square type… Read More »Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Dungeon Cues
Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Song of Soaring
The roots of the ocarina Link is on a learning spree. The official, actual warp song from Majora’s Mask, the nasty, manic Song of Soaring is taught to Link by a stone inscription in Termina,… Read More »Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Song of Soaring
Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Sonata of Awakening
The first stage of awakening It’s not surprising that the first song we learn on the first stage of awakening for the hero is aptly called the ‘Sonata of Awakening’, a tune taught to Link… Read More »Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Sonata of Awakening
Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Deku Palace
The Meso-American royalty Out of nowhere in the middle of our boat cruise we find ourselves in the kingdom of a brand new culture, the Deku people to whom the spirit of the mask Link… Read More »Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Deku Palace
Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Boat Cruise
A carnival ride Only in The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask could Link reach the enemy base by way of a tourist waterpark attraction owned by Tingle’s dad, with a photographic camera nonetheless and a… Read More »Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Boat Cruise
Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Southern Swamp
Theme of corruption for corrupted water The first stage of our hero’s journey is to go to the wetland area in the cardinal south, a swamp being the perfect representation of the corrupted state of… Read More »Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Southern Swamp
Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Termina Field
Land of the hero, twisted theme of the hero By popular demand we have the return of the main theme of the Zelda series; but as we will see, it is not spared of the… Read More »Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Termina Field
Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Get a Mask
The fanfare of healing The coveted masks, the centerpieces of the game; they symbolize that Link has done something good for somebody. And “With every good deed, a child takes one step closer to adulthood”… Read More »Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Get a Mask
Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Mini Boss Battle
Hybrid Boss Battle 2.0 The next and second to last theme contributed by young-24 years old composer Toru Minegishi to the soundtrack, who was given the duty to mark the climax of the first three… Read More »Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Mini Boss Battle
Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Astral Observatory
Hope In the Astral Observatory Koji Kondo Presents us with the third and final interpretation of the word ‘acceptance’, showing us all the facets of a single emotion. There is acceptance at its more pure… Read More »Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Astral Observatory
Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Final Hours / Last Day
Hopelessness The final hours is the moment where denial is replaced by full awareness, Clock Town’s swan song as represented by the fireworks released at midnight against an atmosphere that makes it clear there is… Read More »Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Final Hours / Last Day