Ultimate Fantasy 14 and Ultimate Fantasy 16 producer Naoki ‘Yoshi-P’ Yoshida has mentioned that certainly one of his favourite current video games is definitely The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge for the way it reuses sources in attention-grabbing methods.
Chatting with Famitsu – with machine translated quotes and the assistance of Genki – the Ultimate Fantasy flagbearer mentioned 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 assume, ‘Wow, that is wonderful’, by way of how they used sources, how they made it, and the sport design,” he mentioned.
He additionally mentions how loads of the “base sources” have been utilized in another video games within the sequence, in all probability referring to property additionally discovered within the Hyperlink’s Awakening remake, however that is a great 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 recreation devs to play and examine Echoes of Knowledge to see learn how to concentrate on enjoyable in environment friendly methods.
In an period the place huge publishers are fighting swelling manufacturing prices, many builders have talked about the advantages of merely reusing property and animations and surroundings 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 centered on the identical factor.