To be honest, for the most part I let Mr. Aonuma take care of the project and I was very surprised to see a smartphone-like device in the game. (laughs) At first, I said to myself: “Can we really do that?” But effectively, since the first Zelda, we have thought about including technological elements and make Link a link between eras through a program. Now that programming has made huge progress and rendered graphics are more and more beautiful, we thought it would be appropriate for the expression of technological ideas. — Mr. Shigeru Miyamoto
So it seems it was Aoununas idea to include more technological elements in the new Zelda. This was something I suspected from the fact Miyamoto stepped back from this one.
I personally think it is a great thing. I don't think Zelda should be confined to any particular era. I've heard people whinging in the past about Zelda having to be a medieval fantasy 'anything else is untrue to the series' but I have never held that opinion. It's not true to even say that it is a medieval fantasy series in the first place there has been technology in the series from very early on and the original games were post apocalyptic so they weren't going to be that advanced technologically. Personally I think they can work the series in any era they wanted and I hope we continue to see new things like technology appearing.
Anyone here love the technological direction too?
So it seems it was Aoununas idea to include more technological elements in the new Zelda. This was something I suspected from the fact Miyamoto stepped back from this one.
I personally think it is a great thing. I don't think Zelda should be confined to any particular era. I've heard people whinging in the past about Zelda having to be a medieval fantasy 'anything else is untrue to the series' but I have never held that opinion. It's not true to even say that it is a medieval fantasy series in the first place there has been technology in the series from very early on and the original games were post apocalyptic so they weren't going to be that advanced technologically. Personally I think they can work the series in any era they wanted and I hope we continue to see new things like technology appearing.
Anyone here love the technological direction too?