Following our previous article of Aonuma-san's interview with Famitsu regarding The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D, more details from the interview have been interpreted. Commencing the interview — and summarised by Siliconera late last week — Aonuma-san indicated his initial concerns over the project due to his "troublesome memories from originally developing Majora's Mask", and how there were many things he would have liked to change if they were ever to do a remake. In fact, he actually said "no" to the project at first.
In terms of changes in the new version, Aonuma-san stated that things that weren't explained in the original game were the main area he'd like to work on — at first that may sound disheartening to theorists and storytellers. He added that he would like parts involving repetition to be easier to understand, though that won't adjust the general difficulty.
We didn’t make the game easier. There aren’t any extra hints thrown at you when you’re not sure what to do, but there are all kinds of other mechanisms in the system that I think you’ll notice.
Aonuma-san then continued with some unexpected news, and probably the most interesting part of the interview.
While I can’t say much about it… one thing— a boss fight has been changed. Upon trying a boss fight on the original version for the first time in a while after playing the remake, it’s like, ‘how do I beat this guy again?’ it’s that type of content.
Towards the climax of the interview, Aonuma-san revealed that fishing would make its return, but this time to a title where the feature wasn't existent in its Nintendo 64 counterpart.
You’ll get to fish! Although… it makes you wonder whether you’ll have that free time to fish in the world of Majora’s Mask. So we’ve added fishing ponds. Two of them, too. There might be something monstrous you could fish out, so please look forward to it.
He concluded the interview by joking about the player deciding to fish while seeing the world literally end in front of them.
It seems that with more and more Majora's Mask 3D news being revealed on a weekly basis, Nintendo may reveal a lot of the surprises. Let's hope it leaves out the best bits to allow players to experience them organically for themselves. So, which boss fight do you see being altered?
[source siliconera.com]
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Fishing? You got my attention for now, I hope you can fish plenty of stuff. As for a change to one of the boss fights, I can only assume it's Gyorg since the rest of the bosses weren't really hard to deal with.
I don't really remember having trouble with Gyorg...but that's probably because I used the Fierce Diety's mask against him so many times.
Speaking of which, I hope you can now use that mask anywhere in the game.
I guess fishing is cool but it's never been a standout thing to me.
I hope that changed boss is that fish from the third temple. Man, that thing was a pain. And they'd better not have changed Goht, the very image of boss perfection.
Twilight Princess had a very beautiful fishing environment (especially at night). Fishing under the moon is just romantic!
Wait...
FISHING YUS
Time to go back to 2000 with better graphics and stuff. This should be a trip.
Gyorg was easy to defeat. The Great Bay Temple was a pain to navigate though. Especially if you're trying to get all the Stray Fairies.
Inb4 the monster haul is Gyorg
Changing a boss fight? I never played the original enough, sadly, so that won't matter much, if I was to take a stab, I think Goht will be changed
Got me scared about what boss it was. I loved them all! Especially that horse one.
2 days late. Called it.
I think the boss is Gyorg. I HATED him with a passion. Although, to spit on fans they may change Majora just to be resemblance of Zant or something or some stupid fan theory nonsense.
Oooooo fishing! I'm in (even though I already was)!
New like this pretty much guarantees a day one purchase for me. Fishing in the Zelda games is always so fun!
One of the fishing spots is Gyorg's room. You have to beat him by fishing
Gyorg nearly made me rage quit this game for good.
Nice that they included fishing this time. As for the boss: Must be Gyorg! Gyorg was a strange boss. Sometimes he jumped on the platform you where standing on (so you could hit him), while other times he just rammed the platform several times (untill you died). Easiest way to beat him was using the electro-shield as Zora-Link.
"One of the fishing spots is Gyorg's room. You have to beat him by fishing"
Sounds very likely.
Doesn't Gyorg have an eyeball in his mouth now? I think that is a big enough hint that Gyorg will be fought differently somehow.
Also, I wonder if New Game+/Reverse Bottle Adventure will be possible by stealing the fishing rod like it was in Ocarina of Time 3D.
Ah fishing, the greatest thing to do at the end of the world. Everyone else is screaming or leaving, but I'll have none of that. No, I'm gonna calmly ponder over things while fishing. I wonder what adventure I'll have tomorrow. Oh wait...
@blackbox64 "I hope Goht is changed"
Why the hell would do that.
I picture Mr. Aonuma-san letting out a contented sigh as he lays his head on his pillow, finally able to sleep peacefully. The sins of the past have been washed clean. There is fishing in Majora's Mask. At long last, the world is as it should be.
I will be a complete newbie to Majoras Mask once it releases. Can not wait!
Gyorg WAS hard. He was an actual challenge unless you know the trick to beating him in, like, ten seconds. Don't act like he's the easiest boss...
By the way the easy way to beat Gyorg is by spamming Zora Link's Electric Shield
I hope there's a Master Quest in Majora's Mask 3D. I really liked this in Ocarina of Time 3D because it was like getting two games in one.
Majora's Mask is such a great game already, I'd like to see a Master Quest version with the world flipped and the dungeons changed.
There is an endless amount of time to fish when you can rewind time over and over, although it also begs to question what the point would be other than money and a high score (and in Ocarina you lost money from fishing it was only about the high score).
But it's no different than the legendary time wasting on side quests in other Zelda games when you should be saving the world.
And I hope there is more additional content than just adding a mini game here and there if they aren't going to HD Majora's Mask.
Wow, lots of Gyorg memories here lol. It would be funny if it was the first boss. Something tells me it will be Majora though, like a version that matches you if you use the Fierce Diety mask.
I think this games a way to take away ttention from the Wii U version. I wouldn't be surprised now for sure to see nothing of Zelda U till E3. Its ok though as this is more then enough to hold me over till then. More Zelda is always a good thing.
@WaLzgi That's sounds a little bit like Gobul from Monster Hunter.
I hate Gyorg but I hope the boss they changed was the twinmold boss but not just because I hate their fight but to make him fit his temple theme.
I mean swamp area has jungle warrior boss, mountain area has a mechanical goat, and the water place has a fish but the place of spirits has two giant worms?
Please don't be Goht, PLEASE DON'T BE GOHT!!! That was the most fun in the whole game, don't change him!! Or Twinmold because giant time is fun! I remember who Gyorg is but the boss fight is mostly a blur, but I think I remember finding it a pain to hit him, so yeah, maybe fishing him out? Seems logical. Though I don't know how I feel about added fishing, I mean Majora's Mask is my favorite Zelda game but it has such a constant feeling of impatient stress, how could I ever just screw around and fish? There better be an incentive or I'll probably not even bother fishing...
I just want to know if there's any real new content. Master Quest, boss rush, bonus dungeon, Tingle's story... Hope they don't just add "hero mode, double damage, no hearts" and call it a day.
Oh wow, this is actually pretty exciting, seeing all new suff added to this game! It's better than just changing a few things, and me not liking the changes. This may actually be a new thing to try!
I don't think Goht is changing. His design was fine
Well. Nothing extra other than fishing, so I wont get it. I hope theres a master quest style. Otherwise, I already played the game long ago..
Looking forward to playing this again.
Ugh, fishing. I don't like it in any game. Always dull or boring or broken.
Even as sacred a cow as Majora's Mask is to me, I welcome new additions and changes.
yeah also think fishing is boring unless there is a price to it and not just a heart piece or some big rupee :/
as for gyorg i think he was tough to beat till i used zora then i was like " duh should of used this in the first place" what i would like though is if they added more things like how we could forge a different sword but this time make a new shield or something else
I hated fishing in Ocarina of Time 3D. I'm really hoping the mecahanics are changed in this one.
I was running out of time when I was playing trough 3rd dungeon for the first time. I had something like 5 minutes left, beat Gyorg and then went back in time. Years later, I learned that people call it a hard boss. Can someone explain why?
@Luffymcduck Maybe you can play better under pressure? I know I can usually work more productively and accurately under some sort of pressure or time constraint, knowing that I have to get it done, you know, when you're on your toes and your senses are heightened and stuff. I guess I'm a last-minute kind of person
Interesting
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