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Eiji Aonuma says A Link to the Past is the most special Zelda game to him besides Ocarina of Time: "So special, it's interesting. Let me see. Since we've been talking about the development of Ocarina of Time, maybe it's good to acknowledge the source of some of the ideas that I brought to the development of that project. And for me, this would be The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. I think before playing that game, to me, games were something that you either win or lose. And once I started to play A Link to the Past, that's when I started to realize they could be something else entirely. They could be a game that has a fully fleshed out world feel, something that seems so real, you can almost touch it. And I felt the impact of exploration and discovery in that game. Once you have that moment of realizing like, “Oh, you can do that in this game,” that's what inspired me to think about how to make games that gave the same kind of experience to players in the future. And I was very fortunate to then be pulled into a Zelda project after that. So in that sense, I would say A Link to the Past is very special to me in that regard. If Ocarina of Time was my professional start with the Legend of Zelda franchise, then perhaps A Link to the Past is the origin of a lot of the ideas that I brought to it." ign.com/articles/our-big-int…