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Zelda boss Eiji Aonuma was so impressed with Resident Evil 4 that he thought "I should have done it myself"

"I think I can learn quite a lot from RE4."

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Zelda boss Eiji Aonuma became part of the series because Miyamoto saw him making his own SNES game in the wake of A Link to the Past: "I really wanted to incorporate some essence of Zelda into it"

Aonuma would debut in the series as a director on Ocarina of Time

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Zelda: Twilight Princess did what Ocarina of Time couldn't because Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto really "wanted to see Link fight on horseback"

"Sometimes he mentions things so many times that I think maybe he really wants to do it"

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Eiji Aonuma tried to "graduate" from Zelda after Wind Waker, but Shigeru Miyamoto assigned him to Twilight Princess anyway and he figured he "should give up escaping" his "fate"

"I thought I had done almost everything I could"

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Nintendo has revealed it has 'decided to change' the release date for its Legend of Zelda live-action movie — but now it's coming out earlier than any of us expected

The Legend of Zelda's live-action film adaptation is now set to arrive in theaters earlier than anticipated.

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'The Legend of Zelda' Movie Updates Release Date: When Can Fans Expect It?

The live action The Legend of Zelda adaptation gets a new release date update from Nintendo. When can fans expect its release?

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Shigeru Miyamoto says the live-action Zelda movie is hitting theaters a week sooner than planned

"The team is united in advancing production" to get us the Zelda movie sooner

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Shigeru Miyamoto filled Star Fox with animals because Star Wars and Gundam already had human sci-fi covered: "We're going to create our own original science fiction!"

Peppy and Falco were based on folklore, while Slippy was added because frogs are good

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Is Star Fox 64 Being Remade? Nintendo Announces Surprise Switch 2 Reboot

Nintendo is releasing a Star Fox 64 remake for the Switch 2, featuring enhanced visuals, new content, and online multiplayer. The game launches on June 25, priced at £44 for physical copies.

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OG Star Fox character designer is "so proud" as Switch 2 remake is revealed: "This isn't a dream, right?"

The Star Fox 64 remake is releasing in June, and series veteran Takaya Imamura is clearly excited

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Nintendo boss Shigeru Miyamoto doesn't want dirty jokes in his Mario movies, but won't rule out a future appearance from Wario

The next Super Mario movie is expected in 2029

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Zelda was Nintendo's answer to "traditional RPGs," Shigeru Miyamoto says: "We wanted the player to interact with the game world using the controller, and conquer dungeons"

"We were eager to take advantage of the Disk System's features"

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Early Nintendo was a madhouse: "It was very difficult to finish Mario and then get the Mario programmers involved in the final push to finish The Legend of Zelda"

"We were worried that people wouldn't know what to do, even at the beginning of the game, and the game wouldn't be well received."

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Shigeru Miyamoto thinks Zelda 2 was "sort of a failure," and A Link to the Past is the "real sequel"

"The games I make usually get better in the development process, since we keep coming up with good ideas, but Zelda 2 stayed the same."

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Nintendo had the Zelda timeline planned out in an "enormous document" as far back as 2003, but Shigeru Miyamoto said it's actually "not that important to us"

"We care more about developing the game system"

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When Grand Theft Auto started to blow up, Shigeru Miyamoto figured it was Nintendo's "duty to produce alternatives to GTA"

"Apparently many older gamers like Grand Theft Auto, but that doesn't mean Nintendo will develop similar games"

TechRadar

Nintendo teases they'd 'like to adhere' to the Super Mario Galaxy Movie's lore in future games — including Princess Peach's backstory

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie could inform future Nintendo games, despite the mixed response from audiences.

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'It's Truly Baffling': Here's What Shigeru Miyamoto Thinks About The Super Mario Galaxy Movie's Negative Reviews

Shigeru Miyamoto addresses criticism of 'The Super Mario Galaxy Movie', which, despite negative reviews, earned over $747 million worldwide, becoming the year's highest-grossing film so far.

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Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto wants to keep The Super Mario Galaxy Movie's Princess Peach backstory changes canon in Nintendo's future games

But personally, I can't see this ever actually coming up in a game

Total Film

Miyamoto felt negative Super Mario Movie reviews were "understandable" but doesn't agree with the Galaxy sequel backlash

The Mario creator speaks out

Total Film

Shigeru Miyamoto gave Exit 8's director some advice 10 years ago that completely changed the approach to his indie horror adaptation

He didn't want to make a direct adaptation of the game

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Street Fighter 6 director says Shigeru Miyamoto is "a North Star guiding all game creators" and working with him on Zelda: The Minish Cap "shaped the way I approach game development"

Takayuki Nakayama congratulates Nintendo on the "incredible milestone" of Zelda's 40th anniversary

Total Film

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie releases a taster of its best moment online for free and, yes, we're talking about the Star Fox anime sequence

Reporting for duty

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Super Mario 64, Star Fox programmer says devs weren't historically given free copies of their games, so they had to "wait until supply caught up with demand" if their work sold out

Fox McCloud's original designer isn't getting an early screening of the Super Mario Galaxy Movie either

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The Legend of Zelda movie begins filming in legendary Lord of the Rings landscape

A live‑action Legend of Zelda film has begun production in New Zealand’s iconic Glenorchy region, blending Nintendo’s fantasy world with one of cinema’s most beloved filming locations

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