Pixels n' other Pixels

     Hello once again one and all.  It is time for me to discuss a number of things that are all sorta loosely related to this blog but not necessarily to each other.  I hope everyone has been having a good hiatus since the Majora's Mask series ended.  You may notice that the title up there has been altered to be a little more appealing to the themes discussed right down here.  My brother designed the title above so kudos to him.

     I'd like to announce that I will be writing as a columnist for a website some friends of mine will be starting soon called Culture Mass.  When that's up you can go to culturemass.com to check that out.  There's no link there right now because it hasn't started yet, but when it does I'll give you the means to check that out.  I will be writing a series on silent protagonists' role in video game storytelling (seems fitting because I just finished Majora's Mask).  That will go up once a week.  Feel free to check that out and the other articles which cover any number of pop culture fields.  I think it will be pretty sick, and I think you will appreciate it too.

   I will also be taking the time to devote a separate page to the Majora's Mask series.  Soon, you will be able to read each post from beginning to end without ceasing as each page links directly into the next.  In this manner you can relive all those great moments.  You like to translate Mayan chanting? There's a post for that.  You want to relive my description of the Witch King of Angmar being an eskimo? Also time for that.  Aliens? Sure, why not.  My challenge to Justin Bieber? My Brendan Fraser joke? The actual serious posts like the first three days, the comparison of Skull Kid and Link, and the one about masks?  You can read all that and much, much more.

   Now, if you're wondering what the next Pixels Project will be about.  I will give you a list of ten possible game franchises that I will do next.  There's a good chance I will end up doing many of these later, but for now only one will be the next series.  The list goes as follows:

Metroid (especially Other M)
Pokemon (1st and/or 5th generation)
Castlevania
Banjo-Kazooie
Call of Duty Modern Warfare (it's more likely than you think)
Resident Evil
Metal Gear
Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy (but only a couple of them)
Shin Megami Tensei Persona (as much as I love these, don't get your hopes up this time)

     I think that's all I need to say for now.  I will narrow down the list in the next post to a single franchise, and then in the post after that I'll narrow it down to a single title.  I'm gonna be honest and say I'm taking a different approach to this one than I did Majora's Mask, but I think it will all work out to a similar effect.

    If anything else, tell your friends about this, tell your family about this, tell your not-friends about this.  If you frequent forums and those fellow forumers may find this to be appealing, you could tell them.  If you play D&D with friends, those friends might appreciate it.  If you want to reddit it, that's up to you as well.  Really, so long as it doesn't violate the law, feel free to spread the word however you see fit or just be that hipster who wants to be the only person who knows about this blog.  That would be an incredibly bold claim, but I can't stop you from saying it.

   Until next time.

The Mask of the Fox: Majora's Mask part 22

    Remember during the finale to the ranch posts how I mentioned there was that groom who didn't show up when his fiancee was waiting with Cremia and Romani at the ranch?  Well, we're gonna talk about him now. This is the story of the only person who could be Link's equal in bravery and cunning.  Some would even suggest he is Link's doppelganger since Link is from Hyrule and this guy is from Termina.  I wouldn't go so far as to say that, but the similarities are quite apparent.  This is the story of Kafei (also it's probably gonna be another three parter like the ranch one was)

   When Link first entered Clock Town, it is very difficult to miss this guy.  He's a fellow with purple hair and a yellowish-golden fox mask (known in the Legend of Zelda as a Keaton mask, which comes from the Japanese word kitsune).  He walks down to a mailbox, puts in a letter, and then runs to a door in the wall by the laundry pool.  Despite sticking out like a sore thumb, no one else sees him.

Keaton Mask
(He's batman)

   After some poking around, Link may notice that the mayor of Clock Town has purple hair like the fellow in the Keaton Mask.  I'm no geneticist, but I think that would be a good starting point.  He says nothing about it,  however his wife mistakes Link for a private investigator (You think that sounds weird? Don't you know that in Japanese fiction all private investigators are children or got their start as children?).  She tells Link that her son, Kafei, went missing about a month ago.  Kafei is apparently a very famous man, but since Link was carried to Termina across the far reaching expanse of the multiverse, he has no clue who he is.  To aid Link in his investigation (since asking questions is difficult when the detective is mute) she gives him a mask in the likeness of Kafei (which is to say long purple hair). Nobody really knows where Kafei is, but the mailman acts all suspicious about it.  Following him after he picks up a letter from the mailbox the Keaton Mask wearing guy visited, he delivers the letter to Anju at the inn.  She's shocked that she received the letter and knows that it could only come from Kafei.  By wearing the mask in front of her, she invites Link to talk in the kitchen late at night about getting this letter.  She asks Link to deliver a letter in reply to the one received.

Actual Keaton Mask (looks like a Pikachu)

   After another round of mail delivery, the post man takes the letter to the laundry pools (Where the only purple haired individual in the entire town lives. This would not be so obvious if this wasn't the billionth time we reset time. If Link could talk, this would be a lot easier too.) After rising out of the laundry pool water like Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now and running through the door the purple haired fellow came out of, Link finds himself in the back of the Old Curiosity Shop.  After waiting here a while, the purple haired fellow with the Keaton Mask charges in, cornering Link.
Next Post.

Actual Keaton
(scratch that Pikachu, it's a Ninetails sans six tails)