As the primary new 2D Zelda recreation in over a decade, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge was already a notable launch, however what made it much more so was, after all, the truth that it was additionally the primary mainline Zelda recreation to star the titular princess as its playable protagonist. That meant typical sequence hero Hyperlink ended up taking a little bit of a backseat- and if issues had gone just a little otherwise, his function within the recreation could have diverged from the sequence’ traditions much more.
Particularly, talking in a current interview with Famitsu, The Legend of Zelda sequence producer Eiji Aonuma and Echoes of Knowledge director Satoshi Terada revealed that initially, the sport featured a model of Hyperlink that talked, a primary for the character. Finally, nevertheless, the choice was made to characteristic a silent Hyperlink, as is conventional for the sequence, since a speaking Hyperlink simply didn’t fairly really feel proper.
“Truly, Hyperlink was talking at first,” Aonuma stated (through VGC).
“I had Hyperlink discuss just a little bit,” Terada stated. “It doesn’t matter what I made him say, it simply didn’t really feel proper.”
“Hyperlink would by no means converse like that,” Aonuma added. “It felt actually unusual. No person knew what Hyperlink would say – that’s solely pure, as a result of he’s by no means spoken earlier than. So we needed to provide you with a setting the place he couldn’t converse, and that’s how we got here up with a part of the story.”
Whether or not or not Hyperlink is all the time going to stay a silent protagonist is a query that Zelda followers have contemplated on various events, so it’s undoubtedly attention-grabbing to see the sequence’ builders additionally giving it some thought once in a while. With a reside motion movie primarily based on The Legend of Zelda presently within the works, it needs to be attention-grabbing to see the way it handles the character (at any time when it releases, that’s).
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge is offered on the Nintendo Swap. It offered 2.58 million items in its first 5 days. Learn our evaluate of the sport by way of right here.