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Hyrule Interviews
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A database of interviews with the Zelda team. Our goal is to preserve that legacy, share it here, and build a safe community for our followers!
By Max Nichols
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It is Linktober! I gotta catch up- Today's theme is "Merchant": Aonuma on how past obsession with convenience combat economy. Via Den-Fami Nico Game Magazine, 2017 #Zelda #AonumaQuote hyruleinterviews.notion.site/Latest-Zelda...
![People in quote:
- Jin Fujisawa, Yuji Horii's successor as head of Dragon Quest.
- Eiji Aonuma, age 54. Shigeru Miyamoto's successor as head of Zelda.
Quote: "Fujisawa: Eventually, the rupees are useless [in past Zelda titles]. Even in dungeons, the player can use the arrows that are hidden inside the dungeons.
Aonuma: We feel bad if the player has to leave the dungeon in the middle, because they did not buy any arrows on the way, so we had to place some in the dungeon. As a result, the player who did not buy arrows never had to buy them. We were unintentionally destroying the cycle of ‘acquiring rupees by fighting off the enemies with weapons, and buying a weapon with the rupees to fight off the enemies’ because we were obsessed with convenience for the player."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:2e7f2uvcguv4d5qxqnyjmk32/bafkreibtblopgle7xgkxgdrp6rcglqlywkymypwfokd4cqlet74ynts35e@jpeg)
HI
Hyrule Interviews
@hyruleinterviews.bsky.social
A database of interviews with the Zelda team. Our goal is to preserve that legacy, share it here, and build a safe community for our followers!
By Max Nichols
278 followers21 following426 posts