I see people here saying Zelda borrowed from western games. Sure it did and so did the western games from past Japanese games. Its called progress and really the games copy each other and make things better and more closer to perfection because of it. Rarely does a game introduce something absolutely new and it works to create an industry standard. The only games that introduced new things were the firsts of its genres.
Also people might not have noticed but shu did a little subtle marketing for his game by comparing it to an established series. Almost as much that I can imagine him winking when he mentioned that. Now its in our heads to think about horizon whenever we hear Zelda and vice versa so it is sort of like a little mentalism by shu
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