Respected UK news publication The Telegraph has run an exclusive interview with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom‘s Eiji Aonuma and Hidemaro Fujibayashi. The team was asked why they believe both games have been so well-received critically and commercially. Mr. Fujibayashi believes it is not only because players are able to explore an open world in the Zelda series for the first time but also because these were the games that they really wanted to make and were unable to before due to hardware limitations which prevented them from achieving the vision they had when planning both games.
“Though it might have been tempting to learn from the failures of other games, Hidemaro Fujibayashi, director of Breath Of The Wild and its sequel, Tears of the Kingdom, is adamant that his team “didn’t create the game with the goal of differentiating it from other open world titles. Rather, I think it’s the case where we made the game we wanted to and this ended up being interpreted by the players as standing out from other games.””
Failures of other games? 🤔 I wonder what those games would be.
Pick an Ubisoft title.
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For some reason I was thinking they were talking about and an internal game 😂
Hopefully the developers realize the game has its flaws. There are ton of videos on youtube that justify the questionable game design seen in Tears of the Kingdom.
Like the Master Sword still needing to recharge (after it “breaks”) after untold millenia being powered up by divine energy from the Light Dragon. And if the theory that this Zelda has the WHOLE Triforce within her is true, it makes those untold millenia even worse.
I’ve seen people argue it’s to make it not be an overpowered broken mess but here was one, easy fix: reveal the Master Sword needing to recharge in BotW & actually being nearly destroyed by Ganondorf was actually due to the Master Sword’s divine power starting to run dangerously low. It would’ve also explained why Calamity Ganon needed Zelda to seal it & why you didn’t even need to get the Master Sword to defeat it. Also, it would have essentially revealed that the Master Sword was simply having it’s power restored to it’s original Demise sealing state. As to how to reveal this information, it’s quite simple really: just have either Fi directly reveal this (giving her a “physical” cameo outside of the Master Sword) or Zelda reveals it in the final dragon tear memory after Fi told her after it traveled back in time to find Zelda.
As to the annoying “if it doesn’t break, it makes the other weapons useless” defense for the Master Sword “breaking”, it’s called personal preference (some people probably prefer one of the other weapons to the Master Sword whether it be for aesthetic reasons or for an ability that one has that the Master Sword doesn’t have), simply just don’t use the Master Sword once you get it, or don’t bother getting it at all.
Learn to think for yourself, not what YouTubers that need views think.