When The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker was revealed to the public, most fans of this series were not happy with the visuals. For many, putting aside the realistic aspect that we saw in Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask, as well as the Space World demo, was a throwback. Now, to the surprise of many, It has been revealed that Shigeru Miyamoto, father of this series, thought in a similar way.
Recently, Did You Know Gaming? managed to translate an interview with Eiji Aonuma, director of The Wind Waker, in Nintendo Dream magazine in the middle of the first decade of the 21st century, where it is revealed that Miyamoto was against the cartoonish style of this installment. This is what he commented on it:
“If I had gone and talked to him early on, I think he would have said ‘How’s that for Zelda?’… Miyamoto had trouble leaving Link’s realistic art style until the end.
At some point he [Miyamoto] he had to make a presentation against his will. That’s when he was like, ‘You know, it’s not too late to change course and make a realistic Zelda.’”
Miyamoto was not very happy with the result, but he was left with no choice but to accept this new look due to time constraints and to the fact that it supposedly took the team “10 years” to make a realistic-looking Zelda game.
Along with this, it is mentioned that the original plans for Zelda on GameCube, was simply to improve the visual section that we saw during the N64 games, something like what was seen in the remembered Space World teaser from the year 2000. At the end of the day, The Wind Waker is remembered as one of the best installments in the seriesand for all those who wanted a realistic style, twilight princess fulfilled this dream.
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Editor’s Note:
The Wind Waker is a fantastic game with a visual style that hasn’t gotten old. To this day, the original GameCube release still looks pretty good, and the Wii U remaster just gave it a fresh coat of paint. A game to remember.
Via: Did You Know Gaming?