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I suddenly feel robbed haha

Hyrule Interviews @hyruleinterviews.bsky.social · Dec 28

Nakano & Takizawa on burly Link, 2017.

Source: Arts & Artifacts

#Zelda
#TwilightPrincessQuote
#NakanoQuote, #TakizawaQuote

www.notion.so/06aaee32280f...

PEOPLE:
- Yusuke Nakano, age 47. Twilight Princess Illustrator.
- Satoru Takizawa, age 44. Twilight Princess Art Director.

QUOTE:
"Nakano: The Link up till now [Twilight Princess] had been in his teens, but for this one we were talking about making him around 25... maybe even 30.

He would be well-built. A skinny man with a pretty face wouldn’t stand a chance against a large enemy, so we thought about making him quite sturdy. So the first illustrations were, in a way, pretty amazing.

Takizawa: ... There was even a square-jawed, burly-looking Link. [laughs]"

January 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM

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Zelda Universe

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"Keeping the viewer from being swallowed in the darkness of the evil train is a whole lot of cuteness."

Yuga’s Art Gallery: Candy-Coated Death Bomb #YugasArtGallery #Zelda #SpiritTracks
zeldauniverse.net/2024/12/13/y...

Yuga’s Art Gallery: Candy-Coated Death Bomb - Zelda Universe

Trains! Toon Link! Toon Zelda! Despite its initial cuteness, the actual story of Spirit Tracks is actually a surprisingly dark tale. Within the early moments, Princess Zelda is nearly killed only to h...

zeldauniverse.net

December 13, 2024 at 7:15 PM

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Hyrule Interviews

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Aonuma on how controlling Zelda in Spirit Tracks came about, 2010.

Source: GamesTM

#Zelda
#SpiritTracksQuote
#AonumaQuote

www.notion.so/d2c90e8b2fcf...

PEOPLE:
- Eiji Aonuma, age 47. Producer of Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks.

QUOTE:
"Aonuma: [In Phantom Hourglass’ battle mode] we had some solid response about the ability for the player to control the Phantom character by drawing the path he should follow. And we thought at that time that we would probably be able to take that and incorporate it into the main gameplay. That was actually one of the most important things that led us to the new project that eventually became Spirit Tracks.

… Why would an archenemy like the Phantom become your ally, we asked ourselves? And during that discussion we came up with the idea that one way would be if a second character took control of that Phantom for you. But who? We thought Zelda might be an interesting and appropriate character."

December 7, 2024 at 8:30 PM

Nasanerd09/yourlemons15

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How cool! Also I just realized he worked on literally all my favorite Zelda soundtracks 🥰

Hyrule Interviews @hyruleinterviews.bsky.social · May 15

Toru Minegishi. He's a composer who's worked on Majora's Mask, The Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Phantom Hourglass, and Spirit Tracks.

Over the last few years it he's been focused on the Splatoon franchise.

He also composed the Gamecube startup jingle!

PEOPLE:
- Toru Minegishi, age 31. Composer for Majora’s Mask, The Wind Waker, & Twilight Princess.

QUOTE:
"Minegishi: When I was 10 years old, the first Legend of Zelda was released in Japan. I really wanted to have the game after seeing the commercial for it on TV, which featured a battle between Link and Aquamentus. Not only did the game look exciting, but I thought the sounds were incredible.

I was taking swimming lessons in those days, but I could swim only about 25 meters. I promised my parents I would swim 40 meters and advance to the upper class of swimming school if they'd buy me the Zelda game and the Famicom Disk System."

PEOPLE:
- Toru Minegishi, age 31. Composer for Majora’s Mask, The Wind Waker, & Twilight Princess.
- Koji Kondo, age 44. Original composer for the Legend of Zelda & Super Mario Bros. series.

QUOTE:
"Minegishi: I had a huge amount of respect for the creators who'd produced such a great game. Mr. Koji Kondo, who is my boss now, was the man responsible for the game's music and sound effects. He worked on Zelda, along with many other games that I liked. When I was a kid, I never imagined I'd be working next to him as a sound designer for Nintendo. I have been influenced by Mr. Kondo a lot, and I consider him to be a true master."

November 28, 2024 at 5:38 AM

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Hyrule Interviews

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Something different today: Zelda devs talking about how they were inspired by, or grew up playing, Zelda titles!

#1: Eiji Aonuma, producer of the Zelda series since 2004 and director of many Zelda games

#Zelda #LinksAwakeningRemakeQuote, #OcarinaOfTimeQuote #AonumaQuote

PEOPLE:
- Eiji Aonuma, age 50. Director of Marvelous, Dungeon Director of Ocarina of Time.
- Shigeru Miyamoto, age 60. Producer of Ocarina of Time, Co-Creator of Zelda.

QUOTE:
"Aonuma: Playing [A Link To The Past] was actually the start of not only my involvement with the Zelda series, but also just the first game that made me want to make games. Before I had just been working as a designer [artist] at Nintendo, but when I played this, this was what made me think, 'Oh, I might want to make games.'

… The game I made after that was called Marvelous, which actually never came out in North America, but Mr. Miyamoto actually saw that game and he was like, 'If you really want to make a Zelda game that bad, why don’t you just actually make a Zelda game.' And that's what led me to work on Ocarina of Time."

PEOPLE:
- Eiji Aonuma, age 56. Producer and Director of many Zelda games, Producer of the Link’s Awakening remake.

QUOTE:
"Q: What's so special to you about Link's Awakening and why did you want to remake it instead of any other Zelda game?

Aonuma: So, when the original Zelda came out, or Link's Awakening came out, I was honestly not involved in the development. I was only a player. So it was very interesting and refreshing because a lot of games I thought would be something like sports or racing, but this was an experience for me where I felt like it was a very fresh take on a game. And so once I was involved in creating the Zelda series, I was very much influenced by this game."

May 4, 2024 at 6:16 PM

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kn 🥨

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🤍 #eaJ

November 24, 2024 at 4:28 AM

Nasanerd09/yourlemons15

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“Everything is NOT gwaenchana” -Butter, probably

eaJ @eajbark.bsky.social · Nov 20

The face of betrayal

November 20, 2024 at 5:10 PM

Nasanerd09/yourlemons15

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Character art of my DnD character that I FINALLY finished! Glorikebelle “Glory” Amberforge is an Earth Genasi artificer, though if you asked her she will insist she’s a Dwarf (dad who raised her is a dwarf, mom is an earth genie).

November 15, 2024 at 4:20 AM

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choo

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always ( ˶'ᵕ'˶)

November 13, 2024 at 4:33 PM

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Martin Bracken - FRAS -CitySpaceAstro

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Seagull Nebula from 2023. Love the shock wave in the centre. #astrophotography

November 14, 2024 at 6:39 PM

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I’m COLD. I’m cold and grumpy and cold. It’s supposed to warm up for a few days at least but really where I live we get like 3 weeks of fall-ish weather (with a lot of HA BITCH YOU THOUGHT) before it snaps into winter and stays cold and I HATE IT

November 5, 2024 at 4:47 AM

Nasanerd09/yourlemons15

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Jae I distinctly remember you saying Voices was on the next EP don’t make me go dig up receipts!

Also you have to release Come Over everyone at the IG shows loved it you can’t just leave all your new fans hanging like that! #eaJpark

Boopeaj @boopeaj.bsky.social · Nov 1

Talking about Burn being a strong song and probably be reading the chat: "I think it's more impressive that these songs recently written" w/ the exemption of Friendly Fire.

🫙 I always thought that it was going to be vault songs coming out

November 4, 2024 at 5:22 PM

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So I find this RIDICULOUSLY funny because in TLH Link’s a musical prodigy… he’s learned so many instruments that he can pick up new ones fairly quickly and actually sound good.

EXCEPT the theremin. He’s tried, so hard, multiple times, and it always just screeches at him

Hyrule Interviews @hyruleinterviews.bsky.social · Nov 1

Aonuma on what they originally wanted instead of the Baton of Winds, 2003.

Source: Nintendo Prime

#Zelda
#TheWindWakerQuote
#AonumaQuote

www.notion.so/12641fe961fd...

PEOPLE:
- Eiji Aonuma, age 40. Director of The Wind Waker.

QUOTE:
"Aonuma: At first [The Wind Waker’s Baton of Wind] wasn’t a baton. Do you know what a theremin is? The musical instrument that’s played like this [pantomimes]. It wasn’t a theremin, but we wanted to have something like it.

Based on that, we transformed it until it became a baton. After looking everywhere for a new element to input the musical notes, we came up with the idea of the theremin. [laughs] But people would’ve become confused if we used a theremin, so we had to modify it somehow."

November 4, 2024 at 5:19 PM

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Hyrule Interviews

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Linktober #30: Mount

Aonuma on how he was a new father when he wrote the King of Red Lions' lines, 2013.

Source: Zelda Dungeon

#Zelda
#TheWindWakerQuote
#AonumaQuote
#Linktober

www.notion.so/1144d02d32de...

PEOPLE:
- Eiji Aonuma, age 50. Director of The Wind Waker, Producer of The Wind Waker HD.

QUOTE:
"Aonuma: We created [The Wind Waker] just as my son was born. At that time, I thought that I would like for my son to play this. The lines spoken by the Red Lion King boat that Link rides were written by me. Since I had just become a father, I had him speaking in a self-important manner that children would understand. [laughs].

Q: So at that time, those lines were messages directly from you?

Aonuma: When you read it again 10 years later, you wonder ‘What’s this guy trying to say?’ [laughs]. When I think back to my perceived image of a father figure back then, I’m a little embarrassed. As a result, the dialogue of the Red Lion King became a little more ‘mild’ for the remake."

October 30, 2024 at 4:37 PM

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Yasmeen ✨ ياسمين

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Zelda II: Adventure of Link comic I worked on over the past month. It's a speculation on how Link would have found out about the plot for Ganon's revival.

more commentary in the posts below the comic.

Please enjoy and share your thoughts!
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