Aonuma explains how the item shop in A Link Between Worlds came to be
Posted on October 16 2013 by Knowlee
Shack News recently posted a news post about an interview they had with Eiji Aonuma. In that news post it has Aonuma explaining how they came up with the idea of having a rental shop in the upcoming 3DS Zelda game, A Link Between Worlds.
He mentions in this brief interview that it was known that in the previous Zelda games, there would be times where the player would accumulate a lot of rupees, but would have nothing to spend them on. He said that this was what had them focused on finding a way to remedy this problem when making the game. What they came up with was the rental item shop.
Click the link below to see exactly what he said!
Eiji Aonuma: “Collecting rupees have always been a big part of Zelda games. But there was always a point in Zelda games where even if you collect rupees, there wasn’t that much left to do with them. Making a game where there was a reason to continue collecting rupees was a big challenge for us on this game. One idea there was to make you purchase all your items, and obviously that would give you a reason to collect rupees. But, that would make it very difficult to get items in the beginning. So, we made a rental service so that you could pay less money and rent items. The downside there is that if you have items that are rented, if you Game Over, you lose them all. We wanted people to feel like they want to save up their rupees and buy all these items and buy them forever.
The idea of the rental system actually came from my own experience by getting into a hobby by first renting something and then deciding to actually buy something, but I can totally see how that kind of system would be a good business model, and I think that character in the game is a great businessman.”
To see the post for yourself, please click here.
I really like the idea that they had to give a reason why Link would have to obtain so many rupees. I know that in some other games in the series, it would have you getting all these rupees, but there would be nothing to spend them on. It’s nice to see that they’ve noticed this and are trying to fix the problem in this new game.
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Source: Shack News
Via: GoNintendo
