cusman said:
Everything starting with Ocarina of Time is Aonuma I think Miyamoto's last where he was the game director was A Link to the Past |
Nope, Miyamoto directed Ocarina of Time, Aonuma was only one of several designers. Aonuma co-directed Majora, and was the full director for Wind Waker and TP. Skyward Sword was directed by Hidemaro Fujibayashi, who also directed or co-directed the Oracles games, Minish Cap, and Four Swords. For that matter, Hiromasa Shikata was technically the director on A Link Between Worlds. Daiki Iwamoto directed Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks, as well as the HD remake of WW. So in all reality, Aonuma was only the director for MM, WW, and TP. Beyond that, he basically took Miyamoto's old palce as producer of the series, while Miyamoto himself is basically just a creative advisor, and general supervisor of most of Nintendo's internal teams, along with Tezuka.
For that matter, Miyamoto himself only co-directed the original Zelda, and produced Zelda II, ALttP, etc. He didn't direct again, for the last time, until Ocarina of Time. His co-director Takashi Tezuka (the guy also behind the Yoshi's series), directed ALttP and Link's Awakening. And two other fellas co-directed Zelda II under Miyamoto's supervision, because at the time he was busy with Mario 3 among other things.
So while Miyamoto and Aonuma are seen as the "faces" of the franchise, people actually give them too much credit, when many others have been involved as well.
