The Official Legend of Zelda Thread: EoW Trailer Shows Off Still World, Swordfighter Form

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Two more days to A Link Between Worlds!

Some new info on the game, courtesy of Zelda Informer:


Development was rough, as the dev team was split to work on Wii U projects

The project first was discussed after completion of Spirit Tracks

There were three people on the dev team for a whole year—this is when the idea for the wall-merge mechanic came up

The original idea wasn't to follow A Link to the Past

Miyamoto wasn't keen on the game idea at first. He said it felt like an idea that was 20 years old, but not as a compliment

Shikata came up with the wall-merge idea, and was extremely determined to include this idea in the game

The team then disbanded to work on Wii U games, with Shikata fearing the project would never see the light of day

Aonuma wanted to release a new 3DS Zelda by 2013's end to make fans happy

Aonuma quietly revived work on A Link Between Worlds without the core dev team

Nov. 2011 is when development really started, which was just after Skyward Sword's dev came to an end

Tominaga put together some ideas for a dungeon with the wall mechanic

He was so confident in the idea that he told Miyamoto he could make 50 more dungeons that used the mechanic

Miyamoto wasn't impressed again, but finally offered a hint to base the game off of A Link to the Past.

Aonuma also had the same suggestion

The team was skeptical of taking a remake approach with A Link to the Past

Aonuma decided to show what he meant by doing a prototype in three days

Miyamoto saw all these ideas together and finally gave the game the go-ahead

The top-down view took a lot of trial and error

Mouri wanted to do the game in 60fps and insisted on it

They decided at the true start of the project to do 60fps

The team believes this makes for much smoother music

The item touch screen management was something Aonuma wanted to do with Ocarina of Time 3D; the fact that that game was 30FPS meant they couldn't implement that idea

The team used ideas of height to factor in 3D visuals

The design of dungeons also allowed for more activity to take place outside dungeon walls

Iwata was originally unsure of the idea, but was convinced when he saw the E3 demo

The topic of how Link looked when merged with walls was a big topic of discussion

The team wanted to express that Link was being painted on walls, rather than entering them

Link could originally jump when wall-merged, but the team took that out to keep from confusing gamers

There was talk of naming the game The New Legend of Zelda. The team was afraid that the name would have people thinking the game was a remake

There are baseball and Cucco mini-games

Source: http://www.zeldainformer.com/news/iwata-asks-a-link-between-worlds-originally-called-the-new-legend-of-zelda