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"It all Started with Wires and Rubber Band"
Written by Scott   
Tuesday, 06 May 2008
General News

TSA over at Zentendo pointed me to an interesting little article, Iwata Asks: Link's Crossbow Training. In it, Miyamoto explains the origins of Link's Crossbow Training. Details after the jump.

The article is a translation of an article from the Japanese Wii website that's been around for a few weeks, but no one translated 'til now.

Ideas for the game were wide and varying, might have even ended up as a full-blown Zelda game, according to the article. But, the time wasn't right yet, or something. The article also says that Miyamoto thinks first-person games are fun, and his design team considered making Ocarina of Time a first person game, but the technology wasn't there for it. I wonder how much different the world of video gaming would be if that had happened...

All in all, an interesting read.




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Comments (5)add comment

Braydend said:

  YAY! thanks you guys for the birthday message!!
soo... im gonna read the article now.
May 06, 2008

ginger17 said:

  Well I love Link's Crossbow Training but I don't want a whole Zelda game thats FPS view. It would be to weird and too much like a car racing game or something. I'd be okay with a game that let you switch views if you wanted.
May 06, 2008

Z-MAN7 said:

  hmm...this little interview might hold a clue to the next Zelda. I would not be surprised if the new one is a first person adventure like Metroid Prime.
May 06, 2008

zantdarksage said:

  agh, i don't feel comfortable with FPS or FP at all. i STILL haven't got LCT yet haha, but i'm fine with that. so long as they don't make the zelda franchise FP, because it's 'fun to be in FP'.
May 07, 2008

trenchdigger said:

  i think FP sounds amazing! it would be awesome
May 08, 2008

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