Zelda: A Link Between Worlds director worked on plenty of Zelda games, Pikmin, and even Geist
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Wondering who directed The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds? That would be Hiromasa Shikata.
Shikata has worked on a bunch of Nintendo titles in the past – some of which may surprise you.
Shikata began making the backgrounds and fields of Zelda games, including Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask, and Wind Waker. You may be interested to learn that he created the design of the Kakariko Village windmill in Ocarina of Time and a great deal of Wind Waker’s Forsaken Fortress. Shikata also helped out with Twilight Princess as an assistant director and was a lead planner on Spirit Tracks.
Shikata also contributed to the first Pikmin, Geist, and Nintendo Land before eventually moving on to A Link Between Worlds.
Latest Atlus teaser involves an ultrasound
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Atlus is up to its teasing ways once more. However, the latest teaser is quite… odd. Atlus included the image above in a recent US email. It doesn’t seem to show much other than an ultrasound. What could the company be up to here?
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Zelda: A Link Between Worlds – a look at retro references
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Masahiro Sakurai is recorded regularly at work, doesn’t like it
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Masahiro Sakurai is being recorded regularly while developing the new Smash Bros. games. A camera typically captures his words when he talks about editing and changes at work.
This may seem like a biazzare thing to do from an outside perspective. However, it’s all done in order to retain the accuracy of his orders.
Sakurai wrote in his weekly Famitsu column:
“It remains as an accurate recording. The people under supervision can check over and pick up things that would become blurred in something like a written memo.”
“Everything I say or talk about is recorded as is, but to be honest, it doesn’t feel very good. You know how most people don’t really like listening to [a recording of] their own voice?”
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Zelda: A Link Between Worlds – StreetPass footage
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Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty hitting Wii U “shortly” after PlayStation releases in spring 2014
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Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty was given a new spring 2014 release window on PlayStation systems earlier today. But what about other platforms, like Wii U? Oddworld Inhabitants has confirmed that other versions will follow “shortly” after the PlayStation releases.
Hitoshi Ariga worked on several Pokemon designs for X/Y
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Hitoshi Ariga, perhaps best known for his work on the Mega Man manga series, has revealed his involvement with Pokemon X/Y.
Ariga worked on several creature designs for the two games. Pangoro, Inkay, Malamar, Honedge, Doublade, Aegislash, Tyrunt, Tyrantrum, Amaura, and Aurorus are all Ariga’s creations.
Ariga wrote in a new deviantART post, “the Pokemon art director, Sugimori, had taken notice of some of my past work and that’s why he asked me if I’d be interested in doing some design work for Pokemon XY.”
So in some ways, designing Pokemon for XY was like an extension of my days of drawing monsters for “ActRaiser 2” and “Beyond Oasis”. I am a Pokemon Trainer as well as an illustrator, so needless to say I was incredibly honored and pleased to have this opportunity.
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Zelda: A Link Between Worlds – full title opening
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds reviews roundup
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Reviews are starting to pour in for The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. You can get an idea as to how the game is sitting with critics in our roundup below.
CVG – 10 / 10
Destructoid – 6.5 / 10
DigitalSpy – 5 / 5
EDGE – 8 / 10
Eurogamer – 8 / 10
Game Informer – 10 / 10
GameSpot – 9 / 10
GamesRadar – 4.5 / 5
GameTrailers – 9.8 / 10
IGN – 9.4 / 10
Joystiq – 5 / 5
Nintendo Life – 10 / 10
NintendoWorldReport – 9.5 / 10
Nowgamer – 8 / 10
USGamer – 4 / 5
Videogamer – 10 / 10
European Zelda: A Link Between Worlds site open
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The European Zelda: A Link Between Worlds website is now open for business. You can find it here. As usual, there’s plenty of information, screenshots, and videos to check out.
Thanks to Tytygh for the tip.
