Stone Tower, What All Finales Should Be - Dungeon Design In Zelda (Majora's Mask)

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  @mellowanimations7237 · 2 years ago

  Something else I really enjoyed about the Stone Tower Temple is that when it’s inverted the ocarina sound in the music sounds more like a flute. Which is the skull kids instrument of choice from OoT.

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• AL

  @altdelet921 · 1 year ago

  <b>Sowthern room</b>

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• TH

  @thomashost272 · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pnuIfILA90&amp;t=625">10:25</a> Fun Fact, an easy way to disprove the old (and long defunct) Link is dead theory uses the fact Link&apos;s shell is the only one that doesn&apos;t have blank, dead eyes, and while the eyes are &quot;lifeless&quot; it shows Link&apos;s soul is complete, while the others are only fragments (It can be assumed that the part of the soul that contains a person&apos;s identity passes on while their powers are left behind in the form of the masks).

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• MO

  @Moon-dj7qo · 7 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pnuIfILA90&amp;t=672">11:12</a> oddly satisfying when garomaster&apos;s pose matches the background music

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• RO

  @Rokushi_ftw · 3 years ago

  The music also has a great motif! When the Stone Tower is in its normal form, the main instrument is the Ocarina, with drums following as a base and a wood flute (AKA Deku Pipe) as a support instrument, the chant is in a major tone, and when the song ends, before looping back to the initial drums, the Ocarina gets its own solo, like saying &quot;There&apos;s no other forms in this land. It&apos;s YOUR time, Link&quot;. Could be a foreshadowing of the Twinmold Battle, you can only beat Twinmold as a human, since it can only be damaged on the tail by the Fire and Ice Arrows (and I guess the Fierce Deity Beams too) and the sword/brawl from the Giant&apos;s Mask<br><br>However, when inverted, the drums keep being used as a base, but the main instrument becomes a String Instrument, wouldn&apos;t say its a guitar, but, it&apos;s obviously an alution to the Zora&apos;s Guitar, the wood flute keeps being the support instrument for the main melody, the chant becomes minor, since it&apos;s &quot;the oposite&quot;, and the solo... it&apos;s not an ocarina, it&apos;s a Flute. The only character in this game that has been seen playing a Flute is Skull Kid, which could mean that now that the Tower has been inverted... you are desending to Majora&apos;s Domain, and losing control over the situation and yourself<br><br>The best Zelda track so far, there just isn&apos;t an objectively better song for a Zelda Game, this thing has foreshadowing, references, and is pretty good, a perfect Dungeon Theme.

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• TH

  @TheStubbzy · 4 years ago

  I love Stone Tower Temple. It&apos;s my favorite Majora&apos;s Mask dungeon. The upside down gimmick is used so well that some of the rooms you revisit feel brand new. There were moments playing this dungeon when I&apos;d stop and say &quot;Oh yeah! I remember this place&quot;.

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• ED

  @Edeldoodle · 2 years ago

  Not sure if you know about the Project Restoration patch for the 3DS version but it fixes a lot of your issues, Zora swimming, making bosses more like the n64 version, making the Giant&apos;s mask actually good, etc. I just beat the game using the patch and I adored my time with it.

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• ME

  @Meeeeowowow · 5 years ago

  YES. This is my favourite too. I’m obsessed with the stone tower temple music and the song of healing moment in the little house before still makes me emotional 😪

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• DJ

  @DjinnsHome · 2 years ago

  fun fact: inverted stone tower, despite the multiple cutscenes within and outside the dungeon implying, is not actually upside down. its y-axis is merely inverted as the name implies.<br>you can tell by the entrance room: the &quot;cage&quot; is on the left in both versions of the dungeon. if it was truly upside down, it would be on the other side.<br>its definitely easier to program, yet they still went through the effort of having rooms within the dungeon that flip over.<br>definitely some weird contradictions in terms of lore and design.

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• DA

  @danielcurren2119 · 2 years ago

  the husks from the elegy of emptiness actually depict how the mask transformations passed away

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• HA

  @haruhisuzumiya6 · 11 months ago

  The fact that the boss room is inside a tower that looks eerily similar to Majora&apos;s mask

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  @Anxia-tea · 4 years ago

  literally the only dungeon theme i was actually listening to as i played.

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