![PEOPLE:
- Eiji Aonuma, age 53. Director of the The Wind Waker. Co-Director of Majora’s Mask. Zelda series producer.
QUOTE:
Q: What is your favorite song from Zelda series?
Aonuma: There’s this song from The Wind Waker, the music in the battle in the desert against the sand worm, Molgera. I love that song. It has a kind of Japanese feel to it, with the Taiko drums.
Q: Clock Town or Hyrule Castle Town – which is your favorite?
Aonuma: Clock Town. Clock Town [in Majora’s Mask] is a whole society and microcosm, and I find that interesting.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2e7f2uvcguv4d5qxqnyjmk32/bafkreiagprciprvc3en7qwtraobncflzwdyl32bpcl6iois5gdc2a5ayhq)
PEOPLE: - Eiji Aonuma, age 53. Director of the The Wind Waker. Co-Director of Majora’s Mask. Zelda series producer. QUOTE: Q: What is your favorite song from Zelda series? Aonuma: There’s this song from The Wind Waker, the music in the battle in the desert against the sand worm, Molgera. I love that song. It has a kind of Japanese feel to it, with the Taiko drums. Q: Clock Town or Hyrule Castle Town – which is your favorite? Aonuma: Clock Town. Clock Town [in Majora’s Mask] is a whole society and microcosm, and I find that interesting.
Aonuma on his favorite music and town, 2017.
Source: Nintendo.com
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![PEOPLE:
- Eiji Aonuma, age 50. Director of The Wind Waker, producer of The Wind Waker HD.
QUOTE:
Aonuma: I’m aware that lots of users wanted those two missing dungeons [from The Wind Waker] to be implemented in The Wind Waker HD. But to be honest, we’ve already used those two dungeons for other titles after The Wind Waker already. [laughs] So right now, technically, they don’t really exist anymore…
We didn’t exactly use them as-is and implement them into another game. We’d add some [of their] features to other dungeons. So they’re in different dungeons now.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2e7f2uvcguv4d5qxqnyjmk32/bafkreiawxvn3hoewnxx3t3vdrtyskzs3luffce5ase7ifcpq5ivwmkswii)
![PEOPLE:
- Satoru Takizawa, age 41. Design (Art) manager on The Wind Waker.
- Eiji Aonuma, age 50. Director of The Wind Waker.
- Satoru Iwata, age 53. President of Nintendo.
QUOTE:
Takizawa: We had been trying to figure out which graphical direction to take for [The Wind Waker]. And we wondered whether continuing the path taken by Ocarina of Time, and evolving upon it by giving it more detail was really the right path.
Aonuma: Simply carrying on down that road was an option, and we proceeded with a prototype, but it was incredibly normal and didn’t exceed expectations.
Iwata: At Space World the year before we showed a demo video of an evolved form of Link from Ocarina of Time, so a lot of people were expecting something along those lines.
Aonuma: Yes. But it was difficult for us to imagine ourselves easily coming up with new ideas and expanding on that world if we had chosen that path.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2e7f2uvcguv4d5qxqnyjmk32/bafkreicwp6x4nij6tgcpzgfw4lzvhdpnpserlwopl2rd6bcm6qzp5tkwp4)
![PEOPLE:
- Yoshiki Haruhana, age 46. The Wind Waker Design [Art] Manager.
QUOTE:
Haruhana: We were asking ourselves ‘Is this the right direction to go?’ and ‘Does realistic equal a good game?’ At the time, as console hardware specs went up, many games were heading in a more photorealistic direction.
And, at that time, when I was flipping through a game mag, all I saw were really similar-looking games, and I began to worry we would be making one of them. So we thought about what we needed to do with our art to make [Zelda on the GameCube] stand out. How could we make the readers of that magazine stop and look at our project? We decided that making a realistic Ganondorf and Link wasn’t it...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2e7f2uvcguv4d5qxqnyjmk32/bafkreidifzntvap3vvgwtode5snug2ldgz3v5vrnz6ijbhxsiajnsmjr7e)
![PEOPLE:
- Eiji Aonuma, age 42. Director of The Wind Waker, Producer of Twilight Princess. Later: Director of Twilight Princess.
- Shigeru Miyamoto, age 52. Producer of The Wind Waker, General Producer of Twilight Princess. Later: Producer of Twilight Princess.
QUOTE:
"Q: After The Wind Waker, you joked that maybe you wouldn’t work on the next game. But here you are.
Aonuma: In fact, when we finished The Wind Waker, I asked Mr. Miyamoto, ‘Please give me some other assignment.’ He said, ‘Let me think about it.’
[Finally] he told me, ‘OK, you'll be the producer on the next Zelda.’ I said, ‘What? I wanted [something else].’ But he told me, ‘Rather than working on the details, you can coordinate and supervise and concentrate on making it a better game.’ So I was interested in taking the assignment."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2e7f2uvcguv4d5qxqnyjmk32/bafkreic35ip5imusipemmmfa6wn374266ulqy3qqn6r473klx3co43mz64)
![PEOPLE:
- Eiji Aonuma, age 40. Director of The Wind Waker.
QUOTE:
"Aonuma: At first [The Wind Waker’s Baton of Wind] wasn’t a baton. Do you know what a theremin is? The musical instrument that’s played like this [pantomimes]. It wasn’t a theremin, but we wanted to have something like it.
Based on that, we transformed it until it became a baton. After looking everywhere for a new element to input the musical notes, we came up with the idea of the theremin. [laughs] But people would’ve become confused if we used a theremin, so we had to modify it somehow."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2e7f2uvcguv4d5qxqnyjmk32/bafkreib7qnc5ytndveckqo2ddsmgqeleieyq2ayt4rbpghubbkeekavkse)
![PEOPLE:
- Eiji Aonuma, age 50. Director of The Wind Waker, Producer of The Wind Waker HD.
QUOTE:
"Aonuma: We created [The Wind Waker] just as my son was born. At that time, I thought that I would like for my son to play this. The lines spoken by the Red Lion King boat that Link rides were written by me. Since I had just become a father, I had him speaking in a self-important manner that children would understand. [laughs].
Q: So at that time, those lines were messages directly from you?
Aonuma: When you read it again 10 years later, you wonder ‘What’s this guy trying to say?’ [laughs]. When I think back to my perceived image of a father figure back then, I’m a little embarrassed. As a result, the dialogue of the Red Lion King became a little more ‘mild’ for the remake."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2e7f2uvcguv4d5qxqnyjmk32/bafkreifjeh2v6jhklrpwxihvwwv65thh22urxrujmrmszgcqi33gdc6kki)
![PEOPLE:
- Eiji Aonuma, age 39. Director of The Wind Waker.
QUOTE:
"Aonuma: [In The Wind Waker] Tetra’s mother died when she was little, so Tetra herself has no idea that she’s actually Zelda. But her mother told her a number of things.
You can visit Tetra’s room in the game, and inside you find a picture of the Master Sword. Tetra’s mother told her to find it, but not even Tetra knows what it will mean for her. She just thinks it’s a treasure to be sought by pirates. That’s why she’s continuing to lead her pirate horde, searching for treasures such as the Master Sword and the Triforce, as well as the legendary hero. The picture of the green-clad boy that can be found in her room hints at her destiny."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2e7f2uvcguv4d5qxqnyjmk32/bafkreibqphhrpss6ptekpvikbz36vmrvake7lyhduvn4ysawc7jqvnwsxu)
![PEOPLE:
- Eiji Aonuma, age 41. Director of The Wind Waker.
QUOTE:
"Aonuma: People tend to forget that Link is just a child on an adventure. … When this happens, the things that the player is doing tend to become typical game actions and the awareness that the player is just playing a game becomes stronger. …
Players who need bombs to progress [in The Wind Waker] … will by chance [visit] the bomb shop in the middle of the night. When the shopkeeper says, 'Hey, you're just a boy!' the player who had not been consciously thinking that Link was just a boy realizes, 'Oh! That's right! I'm just a boy.' The player then reflects that he's walking around in the middle of the night and starts to feel the loneliness of the middle of the night. That leads the player to become one with the game world."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2e7f2uvcguv4d5qxqnyjmk32/bafkreiav7jkwst4uw3yz27ngogt4cang7gyiydcnqebr3kwwmy2q54uhaq)
![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 41. Director of The Wind Waker.
QUOTE:
"Aonuma: People … tend to forget that Link is just a child on an adventure. … When this happens, the things that the player is doing tend to become typical game actions and the awareness that the player is just playing a game becomes stronger. …
Players who need bombs to progress … will by chance [visit] the bomb shop in the middle of the night. When the shopkeeper says, 'Hey, you're just a boy!' the player who had not been consciously thinking that Link was just a boy realizes, 'Oh! That's right! I'm just a boy.' The player than reflects that he's walking around in the middle of the night and starts to feel the loneliness of the middle of the night. That leads the player to become one with the game world."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2e7f2uvcguv4d5qxqnyjmk32/bafkreigidgnbv46lsfetnddjrxe5teqj2t5oe6qe4egi75mrzs7fr5ne44)
![PEOPLE:
- Eiji Aonuma, age 39. Director of The Wind Waker.
- Shigeru Miyamoto, age 50. Producer of The Wind Waker.
QUOTE:
"Aonuma: As we managed to program the movement of the eyes [in The Wind Waker], we began to look at different ways we could make use of that. It became part of the natural process of figuring out how to make Link feel more alive and aware of his surroundings.
It was through this natural process that we began to put in items that would attract Link’s attention.
Miyamoto: When we decided to use the eyes in this way, we considered changing Link’s eye color throughout the game. There were points where his eyes were bright red while he was fighting, and there were some different opinions on that. … But even if you could see his eyes, we thought it was a little strange."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2e7f2uvcguv4d5qxqnyjmk32/bafkreiczqck3azunblejp54ry66lzokjmaqs26g3xzk5rb5a56hvp7grka)
![PEOPLE:
- Satoru Takizawa, age 33. The Wind Waker Art Manager, Twilight Princess Art Director.
- Eiji Aonuma, age 42. Director of The Wind Waker and Twilight Princess.
QUOTE:
"Takizawa: I remember the summer when we were deep into Wind Waker development: our [Takizawa & Aonuma] wives went off on their vacations to visit their parents, and we had to stay at work and focus on finishing the game. Suddenly, Aonuma- san’s wife sent a photo of his cute kid to his cellular phone, and he howled about wanting to be with his family.
Sigh—no doubt we’ll have another summer like that ahead of us as we head into final development on Twilight Princess!"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2e7f2uvcguv4d5qxqnyjmk32/bafkreiasmrwzshqb36mwnulwwrvewb6yquo5opna6cwxm5mi7kky7cdfda)
