![PEOPLE:
- Eiji Aonuma, age 43. Director of The Wind Waker, The Wind Waker 2, & Twilight Princess.
QUOTE:
"Aonuma: What I was told was that the toon-shading technique [in The Wind Waker] was giving the impression that this Zelda was for a younger audience and that, for this reason, it alienated the upper teen audience that had represented the typical Zelda player [in North America]. Having heard that, I began to worry about whether The Wind Waker 2, which used a similar presentation, was something that would actually sell. …
That’s when I decided that if we didn’t have an effective and immediate solution, the only thing we could do was to give the healthy North American market the Zelda that they wanted."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2e7f2uvcguv4d5qxqnyjmk32/bafkreiagkizxthm3avs7hfwhxozhnl6u3q7kev4fudn3tr5ohgftvtius4)
PEOPLE: - Eiji Aonuma, age 43. Director of The Wind Waker, The Wind Waker 2, & Twilight Princess. QUOTE: "Aonuma: What I was told was that the toon-shading technique [in The Wind Waker] was giving the impression that this Zelda was for a younger audience and that, for this reason, it alienated the upper teen audience that had represented the typical Zelda player [in North America]. Having heard that, I began to worry about whether The Wind Waker 2, which used a similar presentation, was something that would actually sell. … That’s when I decided that if we didn’t have an effective and immediate solution, the only thing we could do was to give the healthy North American market the Zelda that they wanted."
Aonuma on why they abandoned The Wind Waker 2, 2007.
Source: Game Developers Conference (GDC)
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