Battle With Makuta (Voiced + Remade HQ Audio) [4K] 

The guy is talented

A true legend can do both

The most frightening thing, in retrospect, is how surprisingly applicable Teridax's monologue is for various cosmic horrors among various works of fiction beyond Bionicle. The Reapers? The Necromorphs and the Brethren Moons? The Gods of Chaos? Teridax truly is a timeless symbol of evil itself as a concept - and that makes Him, in my opinion, one of the most terrifying of them all... _"You cannot destroy me..."_ *_"FOR I AM NOTHING!"_*

@@trumediamix1 bruh we were spoiled af, growing with such a beautiful medium

Oh yeah? Well nothing can defeat me! Wait… oh s***

TAKUUUUUAAAAAAAAAA

yeah gali was difficult to do haha. i also put a subtle filter on her voice to make it resonate like in a helmet since her visor mask sounds that way in my head

@@essengerbionicle Nicely done, she sounded really "natural".

​@@essengerbionicleAlright let's see if you can pull off Hahli and be as seductive as she was in Mask of Light

@@akdreamer6497 oh...

@@drawter3592 I need to know

Makuta is literally cancer. It's heavy stuff.

@@albertskoften1452that was always Faber’s idea yeah, but the way the MNOLG writers connected it specifically to lego; by having Makuta represent the discordant pile of parts on the floor everything a kid builds will come from and go back to, was a stroke of genuine genius

sad they ruined it a bit

Templar Studios (who made this game) were making this game in New York when 9/11 happened. It drove them go hard on what evil sounded like, and how amorphous and ever-present is it.

I always thought Lee Tockar's rendition could have used some more gravel and depth, and Essenger delivered.

Teridax is just the embodiment of all evil. You hear that name and voice you know you’re dealing real evil from the world of Bionicle.

thanks! some of them lightly referenced the movie voices mixed with what the characters sounded like in my head

@@essengerbionicle that’s pretty much exactly how imagined Tahu sounding ngl

@@essengerbionicle I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Jigsaw yet, that's who your rendition reminds me of

@@essengerbionicle do you plan on dubbing all the animations in the future

@@essengerbionicle the makuta voice is very close to what i envisioned him to sound like, that being the gravemind from halo. excellent work!

We'll see how things go with the Iliad project

I always wanted to see movie from each set. 1st movie from the toa's arrival to this fight with Makuta. 2nd from invasion of Bohrok swarm to born of Toa Nuva. 3rd about bohrok kal arrival and fight. And 4rd about the Mask of Light. And after that the next movies.

This and the Bohrok swarm storyline were the most interesting, wish there was a show or film about it.

thanks!

But doesn’t this version of Makuta seem rather out of character in dialogue to his portrayal in Adventures and Legends?

@@emblemblade9245I like the way the is in the books. But MNOG is a decent rendition of what he is capable of to taunt the Toa heroes.

I always got the impression, since, iirc, the books came out after this, that the book left the encounter out to leave room for this. Tale of the Toa ends with Onua remarking that “there is more to come,” which, I at least believe, leaves an open space for this to still have occurred since it was already out there. The main difference between that and here then would be the battle vs the Manas, whether it’s 2 that they struggle against at first…or many where they fight and struggle just to discover they need to destroy the control towers (making the Manas, imo, more machine than animal). So whichever one prefers then (though I think the book version of that is the “true”? The Shadow Toa part of that isn’t, according to their Story Bible).

I know, right? We went from "The brother to the creator deity Mata Mui, the dark to his light, the yang to his yin, the personification of evil" to "HE'S A BIG SKURRY BOSS OF A BROTHERHOOD OF OTHER GUYS ALSO CALLED MAKUTA, EVEN THOUGH HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE MATA NUI'S BROTHER, AND HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE A GODLIKE BEING, *AND* NONE OF THE OTHER DIPSHITS NAMED MAKUTA ARE EVEN RELATED TO HIM, BUT IT ALL TOTALLY MAKES SENSE, TRUST ME BRO".

I mean, the later material expanded the roles and lore of Mata Nui and Makuta quite a bit, so I’m glad they didn’t just stay as “simple good god and evil god” once the story got deeper

Makuta's sind wie Engel im Christentum und der junge ist Makuta terridax (Satanel im Christentum) vom Engel zum Gott (Mata Nui) einfach die Nummer eins der dunklen Seite.

I respectfully disagree. They turned a cliché into some Tolkien-esque stuff.

​@MindTheMadness indeed. Makuta is Melkor/Morgoth. The prodigal son who forsook the mission given him by Eru/The Great Beings and attempted to rule all of creation, only for creation to rise up and destroy him. ...except the ending of the Stars Arc actually didn't conclusively kill him in my book. It destroyed his current body, sure, but his antidermis could have gone and possessed a different robot, like, say, Marendar? And perhaps the Toa would have had to kill him for good by detonating a vein of energized protodermis beneath him? Eh? Story fodder?

For some reason hearing Makuta Teridax called "Old Terry" just about killed me

"Makuta, we have come!" *_Cyberpunk shitpost stinger_*

It’s always cool when someone I’m a fan of shares a similar taste in videos to me.

Teridax lied as naturally as he breathed

Every word he said were once all true.

As much bs as that “for creation or destruction” speech he gave to Pridak when he was stalling for Matoro’s sake. Love that moment.

100% agree, that's why I love the 2001 storyline so much. A lot of mysticism, and a more simple, tribal athmosphere. Not everything has to be explained, or have a technological/technical background. I preferred the story before things got retconned and explained to suit into a bigger story. When Mata Nui was really just an island named after a sleeping spirit and not a giant robot's face. When Makuta was the Makuta, not one of many.

@@MrAbgeBrandt Recently caught up on the lore post-Metru Nui (I stopped following at the Visorak), and while I do adore where the story went, I also wish that the "original" lore was more or less what it seemed -- but frankly I don't know if it would have been able to be expanded on very much, so I'm pretty okay with what we got. It was mostly very well written regardless.

good ear! I used manipulator on makuta's voice and a simple 3ms delay on gali's voice for a mask reverbation effect

​@@essengerbionicleGreat job on all of them fr fr!

Kopaka: Your actually listening to this nonsense

I didn't remake the song in the battle segment part, it's Killing Machines by Paul Hardcastle. I replaced it with the high quality version, you can find it on youtube or biomediaproject

@@essengerbionicle oh, okay, that works too thanks!

there's only really post processing on makuta, though theres a slight phase delay on gali's voice for the helmet effect. And I believe justin luchter shared some mnog samples somewhere and i found them on some discord, I can't remember, there's not that many though. I did actually look through some zero G stuff with some success though haha

We heard that voice from Mask of Light and Legends of Metru Nui before..

I always thought tim curry would do a good makuta

I just kinda scoured through sample libraries for sound effects until I found ones that fit best, the rest I made with some synths and did my best to make the additional music parts. i managed to actually find a few of the same sound fx in high quality that were used in the game

Makuta: I don't need it, ask Vezon and Fenrakk about it

Lol

I might do more! there's just not very many with enough dialogue to be worth it

At this point in the franchise, Makuta represented an unbuilt *pile* of Lego peices, so in the a since Makuta doesn't exist due to the pile paradox.

Thanks essenger(bionicle)

Alistair Swinnerton (the guy who wrote the production bibles for 2001-2003 which Templar studios used to make MNOG) said this about makuta: 1. Makuta is meant to represent the pile of unused Lego peices you own. They are don't represent anything outside of a pile, and unless use leave something built forever, all peices with be consumed by the pile unless you build something else. This is how everything comes from him yet he doesn't exist. 2. when this scene was written Makuta and Mata Nui were one in the same, makuta is a corrupted evil part of Mata Nui. Lego wanted to the idea of building, destorying, and rebuilding lego sets be represented in the story of bionicle, and Mata Nui/Makuta were meant to represent you the child playing with Legos als well as what was mentioned before. Mata Nui would go through phases of being his normal Benevolent self and going to sleep and him unwillingly turning into his Makuta personality, wiping the slate clean so he could start over again and Mata Nui waking back up and rebuilding everything again. This is how they were brothers, how he can be nothing (he only exists in the mind of mata nui and thus doesn't have a body of his own) and true meaning behind thus monolgue. Take this with a grain of salt, and of course Makuta evolved into the Terridax we know today and it's not only him retroactively talking out of his blue pins.

Whoa that’s pretty interesting, never knew that before. The idea of him being Mata Nui’s split personality is a new one to me!

thanks! i just added a 3 ms delay on her voice, it adds a slight phasing effect as if it's resonating inside a helmet

@@essengerbionicle Thanks! Also what was the name of the software?