#thewindwakerquote

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Aonuma on his favorite music and town, 2017.

Source: Nintendo.com

https://www.hyruleinterviews.com/30441fe961fd8075a637e2b3c48f3f97

PEOPLE:

Eiji Aonuma, age 53. Director of the The Wind Waker. Co-Director of Majora’s Mask. Zelda series producer.

QUOTE: Q: What is your favorite song from Zelda series?

Aonuma: There’s this song from The Wind Waker, the music in the battle in the desert against the sand worm, Molgera. I love that song. It has a kind of Japanese feel to it, with the Taiko drums.

Q: Clock Town or Hyrule Castle Town – which is your favorite?

Aonuma: Clock Town. Clock Town [in Majora’s Mask] is a whole society and microcosm, and I find that interesting.

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Takizawa on seeing Toon Link for the first time, 2017.

Source: Arts & Artifacts

https://www.hyruleinterviews.com/06aaee32280f4729b4fc936ee28c16c0

PEOPLE:

Satoru Takizawa, age 44. The Wind Waker Design [Art] Manager.

Yoshiki Haruhana, age 46. The Wind Waker Design [Art] Manager.

QUOTE: Q: What was your first impression when you saw the new Link [for The Wind Waker]?

Takizawa: It wasn’t something I had in my wheelhouse, so I was, frankly, shocked. But at the same time I saw it as a worthwhile challenge. In any event, I thought it looked easy to make move. You know how writers and manga artists say, “The characters began to move on their own”…?

When I saw Haruhana’s sketch, I felt possibilities begin to stir within myself. All these images and ideas began to well up inside me.

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Aonuma on the fate of the unfinished Wind Waker dungeons, 2013.

Source: Keza MacDonald, IGN

https://www.hyruleinterviews.com/30241fe961fd80488ed4c4cdb459cc72

PEOPLE:

Eiji Aonuma, age 50. Director of The Wind Waker, producer of The Wind Waker HD.

QUOTE: Aonuma: I’m aware that lots of users wanted those two missing dungeons [from The Wind Waker] to be implemented in The Wind Waker HD. But to be honest, we’ve already used those two dungeons for other titles after The Wind Waker already. [laughs] So right now, technically, they don’t really exist anymore…

We didn’t exactly use them as-is and implement them into another game. We’d add some [of their] features to other dungeons. So they’re in different dungeons now.

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Aonuma on the biggest change they ever made as a result of fan feedback, 2013.

Source: Zelda Universe

https://www.notion.so/690c8afba27340ab9551aabdcd124f5e

PEOPLE:

Eiji Aonuma, age 50. Director of The Wind Waker & Twilight Princess.

QUOTE: Q: What is the largest or most important change that you’ve made to the Zelda series because of feedback from fans?

Aonuma: Hmm… I think the project that reflects our reaction to fan opinion is probably Twilight Princess. The incentive for us to create that different version of the Zelda universe was certainly a result of The Wind Waker criticism that we received. Fans were saying that it wasn’t what they were looking for, it wasn’t what they were hoping for, so that’s why we went with this different graphic presentation.

So I think that’s probably the one, the biggest change that we made.

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Aonuma on what they originally wanted instead of the Baton of Winds, 2003.

Source: Nintendo Prime

https://www.notion.so/12641fe961fd80399d97c766ad5d6528

PEOPLE:

Eiji Aonuma, age 40. Director of The Wind Waker.

QUOTE: "Aonuma: At first [The Wind Waker’s Baton of Wind] wasn’t a baton. Do you know what a theremin is? The musical instrument that’s played like this [pantomimes]. It wasn’t a theremin, but we wanted to have something like it.

Based on that, we transformed it until it became a baton. After looking everywhere for a new element to input the musical notes, we came up with the idea of the theremin. [laughs] But people would’ve become confused if we used a theremin, so we had to modify it somehow. "

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Aonuma on why Zelda games have stealth sections, 2005.

Source: Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM)

https://www.notion.so/19841fe961fd80a5b9c6f877329478ba

PEOPLE:

Eiji Aonuma, age 42. Ocarina of Time Dungeon Director. Director of Majora’s Mask, The Wind Waker, and Twilight Princess.

QUOTE: Aonuma: I really don’t know why, but I love that kind of stealth action. Maybe it’s because I liked it when I was a child… the feeling of walking around and doing something secretly.

Since most of the time in The Legend of Zelda, players have to engage in swordfights; it's very active and looks cool, but once again, in terms of making a good contrast, I think working in some quiet, silent, and stealthy moves is a very good idea. So, I'm willing to incorporate some of those stealth-game ideas.

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Aonuma on asking to be reassigned, 2005.

Source: Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM)

https://www.notion.so/19841fe961fd80a5b9c6f877329478ba

PEOPLE:

Eiji Aonuma, age 42. Director of The Wind Waker, Producer of Twilight Princess. Later: Director of Twilight Princess.

Shigeru Miyamoto, age 52. Producer of The Wind Waker, General Producer of Twilight Princess. Later: Producer of Twilight Princess.

QUOTE: "Q: After The Wind Waker, you joked that maybe you wouldn’t work on the next game. But here you are.

Aonuma: In fact, when we finished The Wind Waker, I asked Mr. Miyamoto, ‘Please give me some other assignment.’ He said, ‘Let me think about it.’

[Finally] he told me, ‘OK, you'll be the producer on the next Zelda.’ I said, ‘What? I wanted [something else].’ But he told me, ‘Rather than working on the details, you can coordinate and supervise and concentrate on making it a better game.’ So I was interested in taking the assignment."