A przecież ALBW to taki przedsmak tego, co ma być w Zeldzie Wii U. Dobrze, że Nintendo wie, że przesadziło z trzymaniem rączki, co często przyznają w wywiadach. Tu parę ciekawych cytatów:
Aonuma, who has held a major role in the series' development for more than fifteen years, recently stated in an interview that he "always makes these games with the thought that [each one] is going to be [his] last." He keeps coming back, however, always finding something he wishes he'd done differently. "Every time we finish work on a [game], I always still have regrets, wishing that we could do this or that, and end up wanting to make another Zelda game," he said. It's a cycle he recognizes as ongoing but can't see coming to an end any time soon. "I guess that could come to a close if I finally make a perfect game," he said. The odds of that happening are something he knows to be unlikely "even if I [spend] my whole life on it." That said, he aims to "create something as close to perfection as possible not too far into the future"
"For Skyward Sword, that kind of narrowed, focused world helped us with that, but at the same time it meant you didn't have that wide-open world to explore. We've heard the complaint about lack of openness from a lot of fans. As we're deciding what the core gameplay mechanic was, we have that open-world desire at the forefront of our minds, and we're trying to figure out how to incorporate that as well."
"We wanted to make it a game where it would be fun to get stuck and be lost," Aonuma explained. Aside from it being a sequel to a 22-year-old game, that's another way in which A Link Between Worlds connects to gaming's past: It doesn't completely guide players through the experience, which is a criticism levied at many modern games — including recent Zelda titles. "I think that one thing all game developers worry about when they're putting something into a game is, 'Will people notice it? Will people realize what they're supposed to do?' And we kind of have a bad habit of hand-holding, trying to make things easier for everyone," said Aonuma. "But more and more, I start to think that that kind of isn't actually that fun." Aonuma and his team wanted to implement hints judiciously in A Link Between Worlds. So they tried to design the game so that the people who need hints get them, and those who don't can do their own thing. "There's actually one area in the game where I fought for three days with my director over whether we should have a hint in there or not. As a result, after the end of that we actually decided to take it out," said Aonuma. "So if that part of the game is too difficult, it's my fault," he added with a laugh. "But it's fine — it'll be fine!"