Shigeru Miyamoto would get "angry" during Zelda: Twilight Princess development and ask things like "who put this stone here" – now Tears of the Kingdom has a tool for that
Aug. 27, 2024What Miyamoto wants, Miyamoto gets
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It turns out The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has a development tool that attaches the identity of an individual developer to specific changes made in the game world.
Back in 2006 for the ‘Iwata Asks’ series of interviews, Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto recollected instances during development where he would become angry when finding rogue stones placed throughout the world which were sometimes disruptive to environmental development for various reasons. Miyamoto said he would demand to know the culprit, but everyone would just point fingers.
“‘Who put this stone here?'” Miyamoto said in the 2006 interview. “Somebody must’ve put it there! When I try to track the culprit down, it always comes back to the director. ‘The designers and programmers didn’t do it, so it must’ve been the director! Who’s in charge here!’ This happened quite a lot.”
Again, there’s no hard evidence to confirm this development tool was added to appease Miyamoto, but there is a strongly implied connection between that classic anecdote and the discovery of a tool that sure sounds like it would’ve made Miyamoto’s job a lot easier back in the day. At the very least, it’s hard to imagine a world where Miyamoto didn’t at least give this feature a big thumbs up when it was pitched.
Although I personally would rank Twilight Princess much higher, the official GR+ ranking of thebest Zelda gamesis more than respectable.
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