Twin Peaks – Inspiration for Zelda?
There have long been rumors and whispers about whether or not Twin Peaks was the inspiration behind Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda, which according to the creators of the Zelda series Eiji Aonuma and Takashi Tezuka may not be as far fetched as it appears.
Of course, the hugely popular game didn’t feature any of the treatises on pies, school murders or the frankly bizarre Twin Peaks cast, but the Game Boy iteration sports a number of so called ‘suspicious'looking types in the cast of characters used, influenced by the increasingly popular and truly wacky mystery serial airing at the time.
Twin Peaks was hugely popular and concerned a small group of people in a small town, with nothing small about the event happening therein. The plan was to make Zelda small enough for anyone to easily becomes engrossed but with zany enough characters and events to really set the mind working.
Aonuma claims to have initially questioned his partner’s sanity, but clearly saw his genius which has become common knowledge for anyone looking deeply enough into the matter. Indeed, in a hugely popular strategy guide for Link’s Awakening, Tekuza is cited as suggesting all of the characters should be afforded a little Twin Peaks-esque mystery and suspicion.
This should really clarify the matter as much as it needs to be for anyone and for those still on the fence, it is clearly so much more fun to assume a Zelda and Twin Peaks connection than otherwise.
Either way, it was certainly never going to inspire a package of time management software. So why not Zelda?
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