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[Professor Bedwetter]

It has come to my attention that 25 years ago a little game called The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask was released. It has also come to my attention that I am responsible for posting this weeks Screen Rebirth. By sheer coincidence this weeks Screen Rebirth was Majora's Mask themed! Funny how life happens that way huh?
 
 
 
As a reminder, there was no base screen! You had to make a Majora's Mask screen into 2D!!!
 
 
 
Deedee

Ice arrows and ledge climbing not included.
 
 
Airfart

KRIS WHERE THE HELL ARE WE???
 
 
Haylee

This MM Rando seed is getting really frustrating.

[Twilight Knight]

I myself failed to come up with an idea for this, but these 3 screens are all cool ideas for this contest.

 

My vote went to Deedee, that is an awesome interpretation of the Great Bay Temple. I love the water, and the green hue on the walls on the left, but especially those pipes are really well done.

 

As for Airfart I really like your graphical style, it looks really good. I do hope these characters find the entrance to Termina in these woods.

 

About Haylee's shot that is also a really cool idea to show off the Kafei sidequest. The custom tiles here are also a very good representation of the MM graphics.

 

Again, 3 cool screenshots!

[Zeron]

Quick thoughts:

 

Deedee: excellent usage of height and lighting.

 

Airfart: I don't know if it was intended, but impressive job mixing the styles of Majora's mask and the Zelda-like Deltarune segments.

 

Haylee: Simple, yet captures motion in ways I don't understand. Although, what's so bad about the see- Oh.

[Haylee]

Deedee's is so good, I'm honestly kinda stunned. Airfart's is also quite fun.

 

About Haylee's shot that is also a really cool idea to show off the Kafei sidequest. The custom tiles here are also a very good representation of the MM graphics.

 

So to be transparent, the tiles for Link, the Hookshot, and the Razor Sword actually come from an old attempt to make MM Link and sprites in NewFirst from someone else in the early 2000s (If anybody knows the name of this person please tell me) and there was an old quest from the same era that used said sprites (It's not on the database). I have a folder of a ton of old quests, so I remembered that one existed, and thought it would be a really fun pull to get those sprites for this shot. I also attempted to make it look appropriately like an old quest from the 2000s that miraculously has two playable characters.

[Deedee]

Both Haylee and Airfarts shots are really cute. Is that meant to be the intro area in Airfart's shot, or is it just going for more loose MM-style vibes? I also like how Haylee's is both simple but also feels exactly like the room in question, it feels like what an MM 2D would look like in a ZC quest.

The orientation of the room I chose to remake is interesting; it's a long hallway-type room, so it feels like the sort of thing you'd want to make use of ZC's wider horizontal length and have the hallway going from left to right; yet I don't feel like that would have captured the vibe of the room accurately, where in a 3D space you'd be standing on the platform opposite of the door with the door being the focus point. Having the door be on the left or right, while getting more mileage out of ZC's screen space, would have been a less interesting interpretation; so I had to do a lot of half tile shenanigans to convey the length of the room and squeeze as much space in as I could. Technically, if I were being accurate to the Majoras Mask map of the full dungeon, the room would be rotated 180 degrees, with the door being on the south side, and I think the screen could have been just as interesting that way; though this does mean if you were to make an entire recreation, you'd be entering the dungeon from the north, and I think that'd be a fun perspective change (would also mean you could have a front facing turtle sprite at the dungeon entrance; which seems way easier to design a screen around than a back facing one).

[Professor Bedwetter]

We did it everyone we celebrated Majora's Mask! And Deedee won!