Eiji Aonuma, producer of the Zelda series at Nintendo, has said some of the younger members of his team had never played the original Ocarina of Time, but insisted that was very much a good thing for the development of the remake.
Ocarina of Time launched on N64 28 years ago. While it is considered one of the most influential video games ever created, a generation of game developers were born after its release. Ahead of next week’s release of the remake, Aonuma told AFP (via Japan Times) that having people on the remake’s development team who had never played Ocarina of Time before actually helped.
"It's thanks to these young people, by thinking about how to adapt the game in the best possible way, how to make it fun once you have the controls in your hands, that this remake came into being," he said.
Given the 63-year-old Aonuma has been steering the Zelda ship for a quarter of a century, you’d forgive him for perhaps wanting to take his foot off the gas and pass the baton to someone younger. But it sounds like he’s still keen to lead Zelda into the future.
"I'm very interested to see what the younger staff will imagine" for future titles, he said, and he’s "extremely happy" to offer his guidance so they can "think together" about the next Zelda.
What might that be? In December last year, Aonuma suggested Nintendo’s collaboration with Koei Tecmo on Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment might influence the next mainline Legend of Zelda title .
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