Majora's Mask and Mario (OMG DISCOVERY!)

[Ciro]

ok.... I dunno if it's just me o-o

But for those who have played BOTH Mario 64 and Majora's Mask, look at this;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWsKjVverVo
Remember ole Big Boo and his creepy merry-go-round?
Listen to that.

Now, listen to the creepy carnivalian song that plays from the House in Ikana Canyon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH1eO3on_Yk&feature=related


..... Am I the only one who's noticed this!?


See, what I find ironic is that Farewell to Gibdos is supposed to keep ghouls away, yet, in Mario, it's the ghost's song!

[Chaos]

I don't get it.  Noticed what?

Other than both sounding like a carnival music with the same instruments, they sound nothing alike...  o.O

[yottabyte]

Good ol Merry Go round, it's my ring tone  :P

I've never played MM myself and I was far too young when my older sisters played it, I can't really remember much. The songs are a quite similar, but there's still differences.

[LeGuy]

Ah, dear old Super Mario 64... I never could beat that game when I was 7 years old, never got enough stars to make it to the top of that blasted eternal staircase. Thankfully, I got Super Mario DS (Esentially, a DS version of SM64) a few years later, and I finally managed to beat the game. I never expected Peach to come magically floating out of that little portrait at the top of the castle, I must admit.

Majora's Mask - I got that game when I got a Gamecube for Christmas a while ago - they were packaging them with this 4-game Zelda-retro-disk-thing. It had OoT, MM, and the original two Zelda games - for the NES, mind you; these were old. But they game with the Gamcube, and I started playing Majora's Mask. I never got past the first dungeon. It was quite irritating.

Buuut, back on topic. I kind of was expecting a completely obvious melody similarity, but at first glance the songs weren't really at that much alike - other than, as Chaos said, their carnival-inspired style. But as it went on, I'm pretty sure I heard some chords in the Ikana song composed of the melody in the SM64 one. However, I'm too lazy to check again. Maybe I'm just insane.

A nostalgic, if perhaps disputably legitimate find, Ciro. Glad to have you back, by the way.  :P

[God-I-Suck]

I have both of them for my Nintendo 64, beat both of 'em :D
I don't recall that song in Majora's Mask, but nice find.

[Ciro]

http://www.zeldawiki.org/Talk:Farewell_to_Gibdos

Apparently they were both composed by the same person. Yes, they're not the same song but they sound ironically familiar to each other.


XDDD HAHA! I just clicked the clickable link "The same man", who is Koji Kondo, and he has the same B day as me :3 http://www.zeldawiki.org/Koji_Kondo

http://www.zeldawiki.org/Music_Box_House
And it says they sound similar in the Trivia here.

[Pat]

They only sound similar because theyre trying to create the same atmosphere and mood.