Nintendo has beforehand spoken concerning the affect Twin Peaks had on The Legend of Zelda: Hyperlink’s Awakening throughout improvement. Talking in 2010, director Takashi Tezuka mentioned the present “was all a couple of small variety of characters in a small city” and the way he “wished to make one thing like that, whereas it might be sufficiently small in scope to simply perceive, it might have deep and distinctive traits.”
Then final 12 months, the Twin Peaks x Zelda: Hyperlink’s Awakening connection got here up once more after Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost mentioned on social media that he “met with them about it and gave them some concepts”.
Frost has now supplied some extra perception into what occurred behind the scenes all of these years in the past. Regardless of it being simply “a single dialog,” he informed The Verge that “it was enjoyable.”
Frost additionally mentioned the next about his discussions with Nintendo, which occurred between Twin Peaks’ first and second seasons:
“I keep in mind assembly somebody who was type of their resident engineering genius. He had hyperhidrosis, so his fingers have been actually sweaty, and he was frequently wiping his palms all via the assembly.”
“They have been speaking to me a couple of Twin Peaks recreation, they usually talked about Zelda on the time. They mentioned, ‘One of many issues we love about your present is how there’s all kinds of sideways associations that may drive the story ahead.’ They requested me about that as they have been interested by increasing the Zelda universe.”
Having grown up with Dungeons & Dragons, Frost mentioned he “was aware of the type of story they have been interested by. I believe I mentioned, ‘Don’t be afraid to make use of dreamlike, Jungian symbolism. Issues can join thematically with out having to attach concretely.’ It was issues like that that I used to be urging them [to consider].”
The Legend of Zelda: Hyperlink’s Awakening first arrived on the Sport Boy in 1993 with a DX model for the Sport Boy Shade following in 1998. A remake was launched for Swap in 2019.