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Max Mraz
@maxmraz.bsky.social
Game developer, founder of Moth Atlas. Made Ocean's Heart and Yarntown, now working on Tombwater
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It's interesting that Aonuma describes this negatively. It's taking out a middle step of kill enemy -> rupees -> shop/arrows -> kill enemy? Instead the enemies can drop arrows directly. While it's not always good to remove friction from a loop, I don't know how fun traveling to a shop really is.
![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)
If you follow this through, assuming you require arrows for puzzles, you need to provide enemies to drop them often enough. And at that point, what's the real benefit of having a consumable ammo anyway? That's probably how you end up at Link Between Worlds' universal energy system.
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Max Mraz
@maxmraz.bsky.social
Game developer, founder of Moth Atlas. Made Ocean's Heart and Yarntown, now working on Tombwater
mothatlas.co
35 followers95 following16 posts