Wii music. Many a core gamer scoff at the mere mention of it. But did you know that there are similarities between Wii Music and, of all things, Zelda? MTV Multiplayer recently brought up a similarity between a section of Majora’s Mask (the milk bar performance) and Miyamoto’s new “”Musical Toy”" in an interview with the man himself. It is interesting, considering the dismissal the title faces amongst the core players, but will it do anything to raise these gamers’ opinion? Probably not. More inside. MTV Multiplayer: So two things: While I was using the Wii remote and the nunchuk to control various musical instruments [in Wii Music,] I thought back to The Legend of Zelda; The Ocarina of Time and how the N64 controller was almost shaped like an ocarina. I put my fingers on the buttons and Link is putting his fingers on the holes, and I thought, Okay, the controller feels kind of like the instrument. The other thing I thought was that in the other N64 Zelda, Majoras Mask, theres a side mission where you go into the Milk Bar and you turn into another character. You play one instrument. Then you turn into another character. And you join in that band that youre already playing as. Youre essentially doing what you wind up doing in Wii Music, where youre overdubbing your own performance. Eventually you have four band members performing one ensemble set. That felt very much like Wii Music as well
Miyamoto: Thats actually where I have that mysterious feeling that I have about this game comes from. Taking the example of Majoras Mask, and Ocarina of Time, in those games we were looking at creating video games, and within the story, the adventure, and the world that character explores, we felt Is there a way that we can have music be a part of this experience? And so, in that sense, we were looking at creating a musical experience within the context of that game that made sense.
Whereas, with “”Wii Music,”" really, we had a starting point, but we didnt know what we wanted to create and. What we ended up with was this idea that you would be performing, and through that performance you would be experiencing the joy of creating music that normally people wont experience unless theyre able to understand music and are able to play an instrument.
Rest of the interview can be checked out here
