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

Source: Iwata Asks

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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.
June 25, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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#Linktober 13: Town/Village
Shikata on the design of Clock Town, 2000.

Source: The Hyrule Journals

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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.
October 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Shikata & Mouri on a failed Zelda pitch, 2013.

Source: Iwata Asks

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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.
December 16, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Shikata on over-estimating dungeon choice in his memories of A Link to the Past, 2013.

Source: Iwata Asks

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PEOPLE: - Hiromasa Shikata. A Link Between Worlds Director. QUOTE: Shikata: Every time we make a new Zelda game, we always look for a different approach, and looked for a long time. When it was time to make this game, I had the vague idea that in A Link to the Past, you could clear multiple dungeons in parallel. But when I played the game again, that wasn't very true. So I thought it would be good to do that for [A Link Between Worlds] and we made it so that when it comes to the seven dungeons in the latter half, you can go to any of them as you like.
April 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Aonuma on his typical day as the Zelda producer in 2010, 2010.

Source: Official Nintendo Magazine

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PEOPLE: - Eiji Aonuma, age 46. Producer of Skyward Sword & A Link Between Worlds. - Hidemaro Fujibayashi, age 37. Director of Skyward Sword. - Hiromasa Shikata. Director of A Link Between Worlds. QUOTE: "Aonuma: As soon as I come to my office I start checking my emails from the Japanese companies as well as from NCL and overseas companies. Then I start chatting with the directors on my right and left hand - my desk is situated between the DS director [Shikata] and the Wii director [Fujibayashi]. I start talking with them about the progress made in the last day and then we decide a priority order of what we as a team need to do in the next 24 hours or so. If there are any versions of the software ready by the morning I start checking those."
February 27, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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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

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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.
June 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Shikata on the design of Clock Town, 2000.

Via The Hyrule Journals.

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PEOPLE: - Hiromasa Shikata. Field Designer responsible for Clock Town & Romani Ranch in Majora’s Mask. QUOTE: "Shikata: Organizing all the various parts of the town 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."
December 6, 2023 at 5:28 PM
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Shikata & Oiwa on the difficulty of getting Princess Styla's curse outfit right, 2015.

Via Nintendo Miiverse Channel.

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PEOPLE: - Hiromasa Shikata. Director of Tri Force Heroes. - Mikiharu Ōiwa. Boss Planning Lead & VFX Artist for Tri Force Heroes. QUOTE: "Q: Which costume was the hardest to create [for Tri Force Heroes]? Shikata: I think we had more trouble than we expected with the black tights that Princess Styla wears for most of the game. They were a major headache! … We asked the artists to draw something that would make players take pity on her and want to help, and this is the sort of thing they came up with. Oiwa: But some people thought that it actually looked cute and didn't seem like much of a curse, so we had to go back to the drawing board. We tried all sorts of styles for the tights … Shikata: Well, it was meant to be a curse, so we thought that anything even remotely stylish—like flowers or crosses—was out of the question."
March 3, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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Shikata & Aonuma on the first year of A Link Between Worlds development, 2013.

Source: Iwata Asks

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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."
March 27, 2024 at 7:44 PM
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Shikata & Oiwa on how Grezzo & Nintendo split the work on Tri Force Heroes, 2015.

Source: Nintendo Miiverse Channel

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PEOPLE: - Hiromasa Shikata. Director of Tri Force Heroes. - Mikiharu Ōiwa. Boss Planning Lead & VFX artist for Tri Force Heroes. QUOTE: "Q: Could you tell us a bit more about the cooperation between GREZZO and Nintendo [while making Tri Force Heroes]? Shikata: Well, roughly speaking, GREZZO did most of the work on making the levels, creating enemies, dealing with the user interface and so on, while Nintendo took care of programming the main game systems and laying out the level concepts. Does that sound about right? Oiwa: The way I recall it, it was the first time creating levels for quite a few of our staff, so some Nintendo people came to Shibuya and we agreed on how we wanted the levels to go and things like that. Later we got a lot more free rein, and, well, it was certainly a learning experience!"
June 25, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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Aonuma on the wall mechanic and camera angles in A Link Between Worlds, 2013.

Via Iwata Asks.

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PEOPLE: - Eiji Aonuma, age 50. A Link Between Worlds Producer. - Hiromasa Shikata. A Link Between Worlds Director. - Kentaro Tominaga. A Link Between Worlds Planning Lead. QUOTE: "Aonuma: When I first saw Shikata-san's gameplay of entering walls [for A Link Between Worlds], I was surprised, but as we played for a while from an overhead, diagonal angle view like in Spirit Tracks, that surprise faded after a time. Iwata: Why was that? Aonuma: It didn't look different enough when you entered the wall. Then, as I was discussing various things with Tominaga-san, we considered placing the camera directly overhead and fixing it there, and we made a test version. It felt really intriguing when Link entered a wall and the view switched from a top-down view to a side view. "
February 18, 2024 at 11:56 PM
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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

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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."
August 24, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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Shikata & Oiwa on the difficulty of getting Princess Styla's curse outfit right.

Via Nintendo Miiverse Channel, 2015.

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PEOPLE: - Hiromasa Shikata. Director of Tri Force Heroes. - Mikiharu Ōiwa. Boss Planning Lead & VFX Artist for Tri Force Heroes. QUOTE: "Q: Which costume was the hardest to create [for Tri Force Heroes]? Shikata: I think we had more trouble than we expected with the black tights that Princess Styla wears for most of the game. They were a major headache! … We asked the artists to draw something that would make players take pity on her and want to help, and this is the sort of thing they came up with. Oiwa: But some people thought that it actually looked cute and didn't seem like much of a curse, so we had to go back to the drawing board. We tried all sorts of styles for the tights … Shikata: Well, it was meant to be a curse, so we thought that anything even remotely stylish—like flowers or crosses—was out of the question."
November 27, 2023 at 5:20 PM
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Oiwa on his most painful moment in Tri Force Heroes' development.

Via Nintendo Miiverse Channel, 2015.

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PEOPLE: - Mikiharu Oiwa, Boss Planning Lead & VFX Artist for Tri Force Heroes. - Hiromasa Shikata, Director of Tri Force Heroes. QUOTE: Oiwa: The closest I came to ‘painful’ was when I announced the names I'd come up with [for the bosses in Tri Force Heroes]. Though I suppose it wasn't painful so much as it was painfully embarrassing... … That's the one, the mid-boss of The Dunes. He's like the king of the Vultures, but he's so big that he can't really fly, so I tried to make a pun that combined ‘can't fly’ and ‘vulture’. When I brought up the name in a meeting, the reactions around the table were pretty much just ‘What?’ - I don't think I'll forget that moment as long as I live. Shikata: If someone ever asks me to repeat myself in that sort of context, I'll probably be so embarrassed that I'll quit my job on the spot.
November 12, 2023 at 12:15 AM