Closing Fantasy 14 and Closing Fantasy 16 producer Naoki ‘Yoshi-P’ Yoshida has stated that one among his favourite current video games is definitely The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge for the way it reuses assets in attention-grabbing methods.
Chatting with Famitsu – with machine translated quotes and the assistance of Genki – the Closing Fantasy flagbearer stated that the entire current Zelda video games have been good enjoyable, however he was significantly smitten with Princess Zelda’s first correct solo journey.
“What I’m about to speak about is a bit nerdy, however even from a producer’s perspective, there have been many factors that made me suppose, ‘Wow, that is superb’, when it comes to how they used assets, how they made it, and the sport design,” he stated.
He additionally mentions how a variety of the “base assets” have been utilized in another video games within the sequence, most likely referring to belongings additionally discovered within the Hyperlink’s Awakening remake, however that is factor in his eyes. “That’s to say, the manufacturing prices have been stored to a minimal by focusing all of the efforts on making the sport enjoyable to play.” Yoshi-P then went on to encourage aspiring sport devs to play and examine Echoes of Knowledge to see methods to give attention to enjoyable in environment friendly methods.
In an period the place huge publishers are battling swelling manufacturing prices, many builders have talked about the advantages of merely reusing belongings and animations and atmosphere to innovate within the areas that really matter. The Like a Dragon video games are well-known for constructing the sequence with that in thoughts, and Elden Ring Nightreign’s director targeted on the identical factor.
