Random: This Artist’s Majora’s Mask X TNG Mash Up Is Too Good For This World

In case you like your self some Star Trek — and what clever, enticing individual would not? — there is definitely loads of it round for the time being. New sequence, new movies, new video games; it is a bountiful time for followers of the ultimate frontier. Star Trek: Picard is at present deep into its second season, with the total principal solid of The Subsequent Technology confirmed to be returning in Season 3, and the upcoming Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds appears to be providing a return to the episodic planet-of-the-week-style format that followers of ‘Legacy’ Trek have been jonesing for.
Nonetheless, we lately stumbled throughout the beginnings of a fan challenge that loaded our torpedo bays with extra nostalgia than that, even. Behold a daring assembly of two of our very favorite issues within the universe: Star Trek: TNG and Zelda: Majora’s Masks.
Artist-animator @Amaruuk is the genius accountable, posting on their fan artwork Twitter account @SpinaSanctuary, and as you possibly can see from the tweets beneath, the low-poly combination of MM X TNG seems totally unimaginable.
The concept appears to have began lately, once they tweeted the fabled words “What if Star Trek, however Zelda 64????” earlier than posting a 64-bit rendition of Captain Picard’s Ressikan flute from ‘The Interior Gentle’ quickly after:
The artist determined that the episode ‘Masks’ — a uncommon late-TNG misfire that falls into the so-bad-it’s-fascinating class — was one other pure match for the Majora’s Masks mash up. Observe a fantastically blocky Picard having simply discovered the masks of Korgano:
From there the artist made fast progress with low-poly variations of iconic Trek objects, plus Commander Knowledge enjoying his violin and the redoubtable Commander Riker on the ‘bone, each rendered in wonderful 64-bit type:
And at last some audio to go along with Jean-Luc’s Ressikan flute. Go the tissues, will you? We’re getting a bit weepy…
For followers of each franchises, this looks like probably the most excellent combine possible. We have already contemplated the whereabouts of the nice Star Trek console video games — and a Star Trek: Prodigy recreation was lately introduced for Change — but it surely’s superb to see that there is hope but for nostalgic Nintendo followers who like a little bit of TNG.
The chance of this “ongoing low-poly private challenge” ever being one thing playable is distant, however we’ll gladly take a gentle movement of gifs like these in our feeds. You’ll be able to see extra of the artist’s work on their Artstation web page or via Twitter. They’re additionally open for subs on Ko-fi and stream on Twitch, too (the place we glimpsed Lt. Worf with his trusty bat’leth). Be sure you categorical your nice pleasure and gratitude.
Tell us beneath on a scale of 10-10 simply how a lot you’d like to play Star Trek 64.
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