#alinkbetweenworldsquote

PEOPLE:

Ryo Nagamatsu, age 31. Composer for A Link Between Worlds.

Tōru Minegishi, age 38. Composer for Majora’s Mask, The Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, & more.

QUOTE: Q: The Milk Bar Folk Duo acoustic tunes [in A Link Between Worlds] are amazing. Can you tell us if these are actual live recordings and, if they are, who performed them?

PEOPLE:

Hiromasa Shikata. A Link Between Worlds Director.

Eiji Aonuma, age 50. A Link Between Worlds Producer.

Shiro Mouri. A Link Between Worlds Sub-Director & Programming Lead.

QUOTE: Shikata: When Spirit Tracks was over, much of the staff went to develop Skyward Sword. The only ones left were Mouri-san, another programmer and I. The Nintendo 3DS wasn't out yet, but our goal was to make a Zelda game for the handheld that would follow the Nintendo DS, so for about the first year, we thought a lot about what to do.

Iwata: Just the three of you for a whole year? Wasn't that hard?

Shikata: Yeah. We anguished over it every day, wondering what we should do.

PEOPLE:

Eiji Aonuma, age 50. Producer of Skyward Sword and A Link Between Worlds.

QUOTE: Aonuma: When we created Skyward Sword, by checking the internet and seeing comments people made about it, it came to mind that maybe the users have started to get bored with Zelda, the traditional Zelda.

PEOPLE:

Hiromasa Shikata. A Link Between Worlds Game Director.

Shiro Mouri. A Link Between Worlds Assistant Game Director.

Shigeru Miyamoto, age 61. A Link Between Worlds General Producer, General Manager of Nintendo EAD.

QUOTE: Shikata: No, A Link to the Past wasn't on our minds at all [for early A Link Between Worlds pitches]. We didn't even have the idea of Link entering walls. We were thinking about a Zelda game with the theme of communication. …

Mouri: As soon as we started the presentation, I could clearly see Miyamoto-san's facial expression rapidly darkening. I thought, “This is bad…”

PEOPLE:

Eiji Aonuma, age 50. Franchise Producer for the Zelda series.

QUOTE: Aonuma: Even when I get home, I'm getting home late. I want some vacation. I want some time off.

Q: How much longer do you have … before you get that time off?

A: What we're looking at, really, is a sort of trend. I finish one project and the next one is just overlapping. My family is not happy.

Q: But they do like Zelda games, right?