Majora's Mask: An Artistic Masterpiece

All nostalgia aside, Majora's Mask is one of the most chillingly beautiful games that takes a simple narrative story-line, but morphs it into a collaboration of more in-depth themes, and theories. People have provided numerous interpretations, and when a creation leaves this much room to be analyzed...You know it's good.

Majora's Mask revolves around the simple idea that the world is ending, which ultimately gives us the task of stopping a crazed moon from hitting the world and crushing everything to bits. The characters in this game are strikingly similar though, mainly because they're almost all from the Ocarina of Time, thus showing a relation between two worlds that are actually completely separate: Hylia, and Termina (termina meaning "the end" or "terminal"). Due to this relation, people have provided insight for many different reasons for the familiarity: It's all a dream, Link is dead in purgatory fighting for one more chance at life, or, Termina is a parallel universe. Evidence is fitting for each "theory", although I find the one about Link being trapped in purgatory to be most fascinating. There's a really great video on YouTube that analyzes this further. Watch it here. 

With the idea of death in Majora's Mask, the Stone Tower Temple plays an amazing role, as it alludes to the Tower of Babel, the tower that man tried to build to reach heaven. In Majora's Mask, Link ascends to the top of this tower in order to receive the "light arrow".

Another intriguing idea that was introduced from Ocarina of Time up to Twilight Princess was the idea that Link is the the "spirit of the hero of time", or the Stalfos that we meet in TP. He says lines we've heard before in Majora's Mask, and could directly tie with this idea that Link did indeed die in this game title, therefore showing the significance of the transcendence of death. 

This game title is a genuine masterpiece. As a child, there are many concepts and themes that are overlooked, so I ask for you to play it through once again if you haven't and  if you love it as much as I do. The complicity of the game is actually rather fascinating for such a simple idea, and if you do some searching, different theories (endless theories, really) are available. Enjoy!

Prelude of Light Notes

*Prelude of Light*

from the legend of Zelda,

 Ocarina of Time

{n}       indicates a distinct section of the song.

 [  ]       is used to group notes together into sections to make it a little clearer

GB        when notes are grouped together it means they are played at the same time.

A B A    when spaced out it means that they are played separately.

Right Hand: {1} [D  A]    [ D  A  B  D]

Repeat {1} again,  an octave higher. 

{2}: D D C#

 Right hand will help the left hand to climb notes of  at the end.

Left Hand: {1}: [DF#AD]  [DGBD]

Repeat {1} again. 

{2}: [BEGB]   [A#DGA#]   [ADF#]

{3}: Climb up a [D F# A] [D F# A] [C# A D] 

Prelude of Light Piano Tutorial is up!

Warp songs are here! First up is the Prelude of Light from Ocarina of Time. I'm not sure yet if I will be consistently uploading warp songs, or kind of just spontaneously uploading them, so I apologize if there's any confusion. There are a lot of requests in the works and I'd like to get to a bunch of various songs while throwing in the occasional warp song :) I guess we'll see how it goes eh?!

Anyways, check out the Prelude of Light. I will be writing up the notes at some point this coming week for ya'll, so look out for that as well. Thanks for your continued support. It's only been a few hours since the video has been up and your comments always bring a smile to my face. I decided to start my own little portfolio of comments that really have made my day and have made me love everything I do on YouTube, regardless of the nasty comments I've received from trolls in the past.


You all continue to surprise me with your support day in and day out. I hope to meet some of you at a YouTube convention in the future!!!

Most Memorable Video Game Tracks?

What is it about video-game tracks that give them the power to hit you so damn hard in the feels? Is it the entrancement of our nostalgia that takes us back in time to all of the wonders of playing through a game for the first time, whether with friends or alone, or do we associate it purely with our satisfaction with a game that simply executed the task of having a good story line? It's all of those things, separately or together, and also the fact that some titles just have amazing soundtracks. According to Psychologytoday.com, there are neural sections in one's brain that become active when hearing music, and it excites creativity, as well as both motor activity and emotions.

But enough about the science (even though it is interesting), you can read about that in the link I provided below if you really want. Which game tracks are memorable for you? It's subjective, really, and no one will have the same list. We've all played different games and connected with them in different ways. I've chosen a few of my favorites for display.  

To learn more about how music evokes memories, read about it here.