Game Informer Interviews Eiji Aonuma About Majora’s Mask and Personal Hobbies

The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D was released two weeks ago and is one of the most unique games in the franchise. Game Informer recently had a chance to interview Eiji Aonuma about the production of Majora’s Mask, as well as ask some questions about the lore and mechanics of the series as a whole. However, Game Informer also had the opportunity to grill Aonuma about other topics, such as his hobbies outside of video games and what games he enjoys playing on consoles not made by Nintendo. Some of his answers may surprise you!

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The interview from Game Informer starts out with questions relating to Majora’s Mask specifically, but soon delves into other topics. The reasoning behind reusing so many of Ocarina of Time’s assets, the divisive nature of Majora’s Mask, and people not reacting to Link transforming before their very eyes are but a few of the topics covered. While you can read the entirety of the interview here, I have included a couple of questions below that I found particularly interesting:

Why are bottles so hard to find in the Zelda universe? Is there a shortage of glass?

As it turns out, in this remade version of Majora’s Mask, we added one extra bottle. If you happen to collect all of them, you’re going to see a slightly interesting event. It certainly is true that they were hard to find in the original games, and we wanted to address that by giving people more chances to find bottles by adding this extra one.

Regarding the bottles themselves being very valuable? I suppose it’s true since they can hold so many different things it makes it possible for you to do more in the game. They do have a very precious existence, from that perspective. As to why there are so few, I would simply say it has to be that way based on how powerful they are in the game.

Not quite the answer I was expecting, but bottles are indisputably powerful, so it makes sense.

When you play games for pleasure, what genres do you gravitate towards? Have any non-Nintendo games caught your attention recently?

I don’t play a lot of video games outside of work because for me video games are work. There are a lot of things I choose to do with my free time besides play games. But whenever I do hear about something interesting – if there is a new game that has a particularly interesting hook – that is something I will want to spend some time playing. But when it comes to genre, I definitely don’t specify one particular genre that I’m interested in. I’ll absolutely play anything in regards to genre.

As for games I’ve been interested in lately that were made by people outside of Nintendo, I guess one that stands out is Far Cry 4. I’ve long been interested in the Far Cry series and just had the chance to start playing this one, but I haven’t really seen all of the game yet so I’m just beginning to get into it.

I never really pegged Aonuma as someone who was interested in the Far Cry series, but it’s certainly fascinating. I definitely recommend reading the rest of the interview if you have the time.

What did you think of the interview? Do you have any burning questions you would love to ask Aonuma?

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Source: Game Informer