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Linktober 13: Town/Village Shikata on the design of Clock Town, 2000.

Source: The Hyrule Journals

https://www.notion.so/24fa4198de744c62ba8345fd4cba9c9a

PEOPLE:

Hiromasa Shikata. Field Designer responsible for Clock Town & Romani Ranch in Majora’s Mask.

QUOTE: Shikata: Organizing all the various parts of [Clocktown in Majora’s Mask] while managing the size was difficult. We created a complicated area so players would feel uneasy and uncomfortable, like they are in a strange town in a foreign country, carrying the sense of uncertainty that comes with that sort of situation.

However, “I don't understand it at all” and “I played for a whole day, but I still don't know what to do” among others were many of the opinions that we kept hearing, so we continued to adjust.

Now I think getting lost is a positive part of the game.

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Shikata & Aonuma on the first year of A Link Between Worlds development, 2013.

Source: Iwata Asks

https://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/3ds/a-link-between-worlds/0/0/

PEOPLE:

Hiromasa Shikata. A Link Between Worlds Director.

Eiji Aonuma, age 50. A Link Between Worlds Producer.

Shiro Mouri. A Link Between Worlds Sub-Director & Programming Lead.

QUOTE: Shikata: When Spirit Tracks was over, much of the staff went to develop Skyward Sword. The only ones left were Mouri-san, another programmer and I. The Nintendo 3DS wasn't out yet, but our goal was to make a Zelda game for the handheld that would follow the Nintendo DS, so for about the first year, we thought a lot about what to do.

Iwata: Just the three of you for a whole year? Wasn't that hard?

Shikata: Yeah. We anguished over it every day, wondering what we should do.

Aonuma: To add to that, it didn't mean that nothing came of it that one year. As we were testing things, that was a period when we hit upon the most distinctive feature of this game.

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Shikata & Mouri on a failed Zelda pitch, 2013.

Source: Iwata Asks

https://www.hyruleinterviews.com/21da00adcfff4ce4b22bbc81d1676ee9

PEOPLE:

Hiromasa Shikata. A Link Between Worlds Game Director.

Shiro Mouri. A Link Between Worlds Assistant Game Director.

Shigeru Miyamoto, age 61. A Link Between Worlds General Producer, General Manager of Nintendo EAD.

QUOTE: Shikata: No, A Link to the Past wasn't on our minds at all [for early A Link Between Worlds pitches]. We didn't even have the idea of Link entering walls. We were thinking about a Zelda game with the theme of communication. …

Mouri: As soon as we started the presentation, I could clearly see Miyamoto-san's facial expression rapidly darkening. I thought, “This is bad…”

And then at the end he said, “This sounds like an idea that's 20 years old.” That was the killing blow. We were down on the floor.

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Shikata & Oiwa on Tri Force Heroes outfit ideas that didn't make it out of planning, 2015.

Source: Nintendo Miiverse Channel

https://www.notion.so/fa02c7e932674b86a0d723212e7cb923

PEOPLE:

Hiromasa Shikata. Director of Tri Force Heroes.

Mikiharu Ōiwa. Tri Force Heroes Boss Planning Lead & VFX Artist.

QUOTE: Shikata: There weren't any outfits [for Tri Force Heroes] that we created but ended up cutting from the game, but we did abandon a few ideas in the planning phase. Let's see… We thought about creating a ‘Stinky Costume’ which would keep enemies at bay, or a ‘Kansai Outfit’ which would put the situation reports into the Kansai dialect of Japanese.

Oiwa: We also considered ‘Emperor's New Clothes’, which would make you look naked to other players, and a "Handsome Outfit" that made you look really cool in photos.