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Majora’s Mask, Re-imagined

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23 November 2016

By Alex Khalil

This is creepy and also awesome.

Cast your mind back 16 years, to the year 2000. Steps and S Club 7 were still around, along with my favourite episodes of SpongeBob, and The Simpsons was still funny.

This was the year that Majora’s Mask, one of the most revered Zelda games ever, was released worldwide on the Nintendo 64. The game revolved around a hero who had three days to save the world before the moon crashes into the very land he lives upon, destroying everything. It explores a wide variety of problems facing people – despair and the inevitability of things like death and growing up.

While it may sound depressing as heck, the music and the aesthetic did wonders for keeping us in high spirits, though.

But what if it had a darker tone? What if we went full DC, Batman V Superman dark on it?

Well…

YouTube channel EmberLab have re-imagined the opening of the game to fit such a tone, showing the game’s antagonist, Skull Kid, being corrupted by the mask. It’s eerie, and really, really dope.

10/10 would go see this in the cinema.

In the video description, it stated “our take on how the Zelda Universe could be realised in film.”

A film in this style?

Definite yes.

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