NEW VIDEO (and about time too!) featuring @nayruyt.bsky.social
This time we're looking at the Sword & Shield Maze as well as the end of Oracle of Seasons!
This game has been an absolute pleasure to examine. I hope you all enjoy!
Watch it here:
➡️ youtu.be/ijxSjpVmzC8
PEOPLE: - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 46. Producer and Co-Director of The Legend of Zelda. - Gunpei Yokoi, age 57. Creator of the D-Pad and the Game Boy. Miyamoto’s lead from 1980-1983. QUOTE: Q: Before interviewing you Mr. Miyamoto, I visited Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine. Then, when I stopped by a souvenir shop, I saw plates and jars with the familiar triangular mark everywhere! Is the Triforce related to the shrine? Miyamoto: No, it has nothing to do with it. Gunpei Yokoi's family crest was the same, but I only found out about that later. It was a complete coincidence. When we were first making Zelda, we were wondering what kind of items to use, and we decided that some kind of “triangle power” would be good, so that's how it came about. The design was the most beautiful and fit well.
Miyamoto denies a connection between the Triforce symbol and the Fushimi Inari-Taisha Shrine, 1999.
Source: The Hyrule Journals
#Zelda
#TheLegendofZeldaQuote
#MiyamotoQuote, #YokoiQuote
www.hyruleinterviews.com/24441fe961fd...
PEOPLE: - Eiji Aonuma, age 35. Ocarina of Time Dungeon Director. QUOTE: Aonuma: I, personally, really like the Forest Temple. It was the very first dungeon we designed in Ocarina of Time. … At the center of the Forest Temple lies the twisting pathway. When you go through it, you can reach items you couldn’t before. We wouldn’t have been able to make something like that if the game hadn’t been 3D. It’s easy to think ‘wow, the path twists!’ but the designers actually had a lot of trouble with it. I think they spent about a week tormenting themselves over how to make it work.
Aonuma on the first dungeon designed for Ocarina of Time, 1998.
Source: GlitterBerri's Game Translations
#Zelda
#OcarinaofTimeQuote
#AonumaQuote
www.hyruleinterviews.com/0e093b226205...
This article aptly captures the real state of Japanese game dev right now. For years, companies have prioritized outsourcing/contract hires because of fewer legal obligations. But as this piece describes, it also lets them skirt around layoff laws by ceasing to contract that external work at all.
please check out the 30th anniversary page, it is my baby and I put a lot of work into it (with lots of help!)
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Fascinating... Thanks for sharing, we'll look it over!
Though this is something that we would only consider as part of the American English canon, and NoA rarely makes these kinds of authorial claims anymore.
The A Link to the Past manual mentions the Golden Goddesses having come from a "distant nebula", and that information has yet to be contradicted, necessarily.
For the old website, it claims that the Sea Lily's Bell was used by mermaids to call their young. This detail hasn't really been retconned.
As a general rule of thumb we report on anything that is provided by an official source, provided it isn't retconned later. In that case, we try to keep the information separate, such as in the Notes section of an article.
Screenshot of the Blood Moon from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
A Blood Moon on Breath of the Wild's anniversary?
Mother nature is officially doing more to celebrate Zelda's 40th than Nintendo.
Oh it's out! I had a lot of fun chatting with Chris on this episode of Post Games. It's a Patreon exclusive one, so most of y'all may not be able to hear it yet, but if Chris ever decides to make it public I'll definitely holler about it here!
www.patreon.com/posts/histor...
Graphic summarizing the community updates. Artwork of the original Link handing the Master Sword to Breath of the Wild Link sits to the left.
Our February community update is up!
This month we discuss anniversaries, new site features, and the Indie Wiki Buddy browser extension!
![PEOPLE:
- Satoru Takizawa, age 44. Breath of the Wild Art Director.
QUOTE:
Takizawa: In Japan, when we remember something that “stirs the soul”, we use 'gutto kuru' to capture that feeling. … To create an appealing, never-before-seen world, you need to break conventions. You need to be creatively reckless. So perhaps it's safe to say, in some ways, we game creators really enjoy violent work.
In what way did our artists add that gutto kuru feeling to their art [in Breath of the Wild]? They wracked their brains each and every day throughout development to fully manifest their individuality.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2e7f2uvcguv4d5qxqnyjmk32/bafkreiaykwcwmzeplpymyzhq45dhnluhslebvhn66kcabwoo7jtbwoh6jm)
PEOPLE: - Satoru Takizawa, age 44. Breath of the Wild Art Director. QUOTE: Takizawa: In Japan, when we remember something that “stirs the soul”, we use 'gutto kuru' to capture that feeling. … To create an appealing, never-before-seen world, you need to break conventions. You need to be creatively reckless. So perhaps it's safe to say, in some ways, we game creators really enjoy violent work. In what way did our artists add that gutto kuru feeling to their art [in Breath of the Wild]? They wracked their brains each and every day throughout development to fully manifest their individuality.
Takizawa on “gutto kuru” art and “violent work”, 2017.
Source: Game Developers Conference (GDC)
#Zelda
#BreathoftheWildQuote
#TakizawaQuote
www.hyruleinterviews.com/febaddf2a123...
Artwork of Blue Link apologizing from The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes.
Apologies to the people who tuned in, but our Pokémon Legends: Z-A streams are on a hiatus for the immediate future due to a medical emergency.
Apologies for the delays, we are now live!
twitch.tv/Zelda_Wiki
Slight delays, dealing with OBS issues!
Graphic promoting the Zelda Wiki Twitch channel with both the ZW logo and a Pokémon 30th anniversary logo featuring Chikorita. Text over a backdrop of Lumiose City reads "A new journey begins. February 27, 2:00 PM EDT"
We will be celebrating Pokémon Day our way over on our Twitch channel later today. Please drop on by if you get the chance!
www.twitch.tv/Zelda_Wiki
Render of the Tingle Tuner from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
But at what cost?
Key artwork of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD.
No it's fine, we were just hoping for a different kind of Winds and Waves to come to the Switch 2...
![PEOPLE:
- Masayuki Uemura, age 77. Engineer at Nintendo from 1971 to 2004. Creator of the Famicom.
- Hiroshi Yamauchi, age 92. President of Nintendo from 1949 to 2002.
QUOTE:
Uemura: [Former President Hiroshi Yamauchi] loved hanafuda and card games. I remember once, early on, a birthday party for an employee and he showed up and got right into hanafuda with everyone.
He was a Kyotoite. It’s a city with a lot of long-running businesses, some maybe five or even six hundred years old. In the hierarchy of the city, traditional craftspeople rank at the top. Nintendo, as a purveyor of playthings like hanafuda or Western playing cards, originally ranked down at the very bottom. Doing business in that environment made him very open to new ventures. He wasn’t interested in specializing. He was keenly interested in new trends.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2e7f2uvcguv4d5qxqnyjmk32/bafkreicux2ohbdrhslpowgmsqrwh54ia25fteem6aifv5o6dpgj6uelvxm)
PEOPLE: - Masayuki Uemura, age 77. Engineer at Nintendo from 1971 to 2004. Creator of the Famicom. - Hiroshi Yamauchi, age 92. President of Nintendo from 1949 to 2002. QUOTE: Uemura: [Former President Hiroshi Yamauchi] loved hanafuda and card games. I remember once, early on, a birthday party for an employee and he showed up and got right into hanafuda with everyone. He was a Kyotoite. It’s a city with a lot of long-running businesses, some maybe five or even six hundred years old. In the hierarchy of the city, traditional craftspeople rank at the top. Nintendo, as a purveyor of playthings like hanafuda or Western playing cards, originally ranked down at the very bottom. Doing business in that environment made him very open to new ventures. He wasn’t interested in specializing. He was keenly interested in new trends.
Uemura on what kind of person Yamauchi was, 2020.
Source: Kotaku
#UemuraQuote, #YamauchiQuote
www.hyruleinterviews.com/30041fe961fd...
Resident Evil Requiem Director Koshi Nakanishi did a Creators Voice interview with Nintendo!
He revealed how an enemy in Resident Evil Revelations was directly inspired by Zelda II.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ8B...
We look forward to seeing @joshstrifehayes.bsky.social , Duklock, and of course, Ross in the press conference after the organisers meet with the @ec.europa.eu February 23! We'll keep everyone posted. Stay tuned and #StopKillingGames !
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXvs...
Shout out to The Legend of Zelda after 40 years! A game whose sense of exploration and adventure still feels unparalleled to me in many ways.
Art scans courtesy of @historyofhyrule.com: www.flickr.com/photos/histo...
Hand-drawn map by my dad, from when we played the game together in the 80s.
Happy 40th Anniversary of The Legend of #Zelda!
As a friendly reminder, anniversary celebrations for The Legend of Zelda typically begin in June.
![PEOPLE:
- Eiji Aonuma, age 50. Director of Majora’s Mask, The Wind Waker, and Twilight Princess. Producer for the Zelda series.
QUOTE:
Aonuma: I saw [the Spaceworld 2000 Zelda tech demo] and I thought, “No, this isn’t Zelda. This isn’t Zelda at all.”
I felt like this wasn’t what I imagined Zelda to be. It wasn’t the Zelda I wanted to make. That video clip didn’t actually contain any big surprises. There wasn’t any kind of revelation going on. It was more like a continuation of the previous version. … I wasn’t interested in it at all.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2e7f2uvcguv4d5qxqnyjmk32/bafkreicuhcjrw5iuy56lgla26uihbaa7phzjj3lbvzleafsgbzxxbwwdme)
PEOPLE: - Eiji Aonuma, age 50. Director of Majora’s Mask, The Wind Waker, and Twilight Princess. Producer for the Zelda series. QUOTE: Aonuma: I saw [the Spaceworld 2000 Zelda tech demo] and I thought, “No, this isn’t Zelda. This isn’t Zelda at all.” I felt like this wasn’t what I imagined Zelda to be. It wasn’t the Zelda I wanted to make. That video clip didn’t actually contain any big surprises. There wasn’t any kind of revelation going on. It was more like a continuation of the previous version. … I wasn’t interested in it at all.
Aonuma on his feelings towards the Spaceworld 2000 Tech Demo, 2013.
Source: IGN
#Zelda
#AonumaQuote
www.hyruleinterviews.com/30241fe961fd...
Thank you to whoever donated, we have enough to cover the replacement costs!
If anyone is feeling generous after trading their soul for wealth, one of our editors needs to replace their broken laptop screen.
ko-fi.com/zeldawiki
Screenshot of Jovani from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
Apropos of nothing, Jovani is a character from Twilight Princess whose insatiable greed leads him to trading his soul for wealth.
If in 2016 I purchased an item for $7.99 US then in 2026 that same item would cost: $10.83. Cumulative rate of inflation: 35.5%
(English) Pokémon LeafGreen Version, available for $19.99 US.
TPC may have spit on the subscription model of NSO, but don't be fooled.
FireRed and LeafGreen are double the price of most Virtual Console GBA games, which were typically priced at $7.99 US in 2016. Adjusted for inflation, it would be close to $11 today.
False scarcity, everyone.
Logo of HAL Laboratory
Today is the 46th anniversary of HAL Laboratory (@HAL_Laboratory), founded on February 21, 1980!
They may be best known for working on the Kirby and Mother series as well as Pokémon Snap and the first two Super Smash Bros. games.
https://bulbapedia.b...
