Tag: Kensuke Tanabe

Remember the Egg that opens at the end of Link’s Awakening and sort of signifies the end of a world that doesn’t actually exist? Turns out, the actual concept of the giant egg looming over the land and being cracked to end the world was a concept intended for A Link to the Past, before the idea itself was scrapped. In an interviewed centered on the just released Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze, Kensuke Tanabe talked about various things he did for that game, but he also specifically brought up an instance during A Link to the Past development. Head inside for the quote.

Kensuke Tanabe was “thinking aloud” the other day, noticing that Tingle is really not that popular here in the west. We all know Tingle. He had his big debut in Majora’s Mask and since appeared in Oracle of Ages, The Wind Waker, Four Swords Adventures, and The Minish Cap; as well as staring in some games of his own that never became all that popular. Looking at his games, they almost seem like just fillers for the younger generations to…