If you don't know me then just let me say I really do spend as much time as I can hiking. So, one day, I was talking about why I love Breath of the Wild and the very early Zelda games and one of my oldest and best Zelda friends, Max, started posting some of the best Miyamoto quotes and I felt like I needed to gush about them a little more.
"Zelda has an epic story and all, but the truth is, to me it’s all about hiking. (laughs)" - Shigeru Miyamoto, 1998... "I think it's clear that Melora, too, is all about hiking xD " -Max
I mean, it's no wonder to me that the guy who created Zelda would speak to my soul like this!
"The spirit, the state of mind of a kid when he enters a cave alone must be realized in the game. Going in, he must feel the cold air around him. He must discover a branch off to one side and decide whether to explore it or not. Sometimes he loses his way." - Miyamoto
"When I was a child, I went hiking and found a lake. It was quite a surprise for me to stumble upon it. When I traveled around the country without a map, trying to find my way, stumbling on amazing things as I went, I realized how it felt to go on an adventure like this."
"When I went to the university at Kanazawa, it was a totally strange city for me. I liked walking very much, and whenever I did, something would happen. I would pass through a tunnel and the scene was quite changed when I came out."
"I was living in an apartment in Kyoto, and nearby was a building that had a small manhole cover mounted in the wall. I walked by it every day and I noticed it. I wondered, why is a manhole on the wall? Where does it lead?"
"I want people to get really into the geography [...], since I think it’s a really natural thing to be able to look around while you’re walking. At first when we were developing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, I even proposed using a first-person perspective.
"I wanted to create a game where the player could experience the feeling of exploration as he travels about the world, becoming familiar with the history of the land and the natural world he inhabits."
Here is a video of him talking about all this!
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