Highlights
- Celebrating The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s first anniversary, the producer and director talked concerning the success of the sport.
- The builders added new options just like the Ultrahand mechanic, permitting for exploration and distinctive gameplay experiences within the huge world of Hyrule.
- Each Aonuma and Fujibayashi hope to make use of the expertise gained from Tears of the Kingdom to create extra pleasurable video games sooner or later for followers to sit up for.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom celebrated the sport’s first anniversary by sharing a pair of messages from collection producer Eiji Aonuma and director Hidemaro Fujibayashi. Nintendo has been celebrating the momentous recreation’s milestone over the previous few weeks in just a few alternative ways, corresponding to a brand new piece of Tears of the Kingdom art work, a soundtrack launch, and an artbook. The builders of the sport have additionally gotten into the festivities with a particular message concerning the recreation.
Simply over one 12 months in the past, on Could 12, 2023, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was launched to essential acclaim. It was the follow-up to 2017’s Breath of the Wild, which had a lot of completely different options and components to assist Hyperlink discover the huge world of Hyrule. Followers and critics have praised Tears of the Kingdom for its new additions, with the Ultrahand being probably the most prevalent and continuously used mechanic within the recreation. Each Aonuma and Fujibayashi focus on the sport’s reception and the way gamers have been enjoying with the sport’s new instruments.
Associated
Zelda Voice Actors Reveal Nintendo’s Main Restriction on Widespread Fan Requests
Zelda actors focus on the foundations they need to observe concerning the enduring Nintendo characters, stopping them from agreeing to a standard fan request.
In a brand new interview with Japanese journal Nintendo Dream (translation courtesy of SatsumaFS, Philip Proctor, and Simon Griffin from NintendoEverything), Aonuma recollects an incident when he met a child who excitedly proclaimed he performed Tears of the Kingdom for over 1000 hours. Aonuma remembers the kid’s mom smiling at his proclamation, with Aonuma additionally being shocked that one particular person may play a recreation for that a lot time. He recollects that loads of different folks would fortunately inform him how they performed Tears of the Kingdom for a lot of hours, and hopes to make use of the expertise gained from engaged on Tears of the Kingdom for future titles. “Zelda is a longstanding collection, and I wish to make the most of the expertise from this title to create extra video games that everybody can get pleasure from sooner or later, so please sit up for it. To all those that have performed The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, thanks very a lot,” says Aonuma.
Eiji Aonuma and Hidemaro Fujibayashi’s Have fun Tears of the Kingdom’s First Anniversary
Tears of the Kingdom director Fujibayashi says he noticed the various methods folks have been enjoying and having fun with the sport, noting that it introduced pleasure to the workers as a complete. He singles out the Ultrahand particularly, the place its distinctive potential to connect and detach objects has helped create distinctive automobiles and gadgets, which contributed to a core idea that the builders had been engaged on. He thanks the various gamers for taking part in the sport as a lot as they did and the way it provides the event group an awesome sense of motivation.
Zelda is a longstanding collection, and I wish to make the most of the expertise from this title to create extra video games that everybody can get pleasure from sooner or later, so please sit up for it. To all those that have performed The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, thanks very a lot.
Fujibayashi notes that Tears of the Kingdom’s and Breath of the Wild‘s tales had been constructed in a approach that the context and particulars are advised in a approach that subsequent playthroughs permit gamers to take a look at issues from a brand new perspective and uncover issues they did not discover earlier than. Followers will doubtless dedicate the identical period of time to Tears of the Kingdom as its predecessor, constructing and discovering lots within the course of.