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Keza MacDonald

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363 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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'The Legend of Zelda' 40th Anniversary Draft | Button Mash

The way that A Link to the Past's history had been written into the world was also really, really excellent.

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'The Legend of Zelda' 40th Anniversary Draft | Button Mash

I loved the way that the history of Hyrule was literally written on the walls in A Link Between Worlds Hyrule.

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'The Legend of Zelda' 40th Anniversary Draft | Button Mash

I liked the way that they played with

The Ringer-Verse
'The Legend of Zelda' 40th Anniversary Draft | Button Mash

how it was laid out so that if you thought you knew from 20 years ago where something was off and it was just a little bit different.

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'The Legend of Zelda' 40th Anniversary Draft | Button Mash

And I also really liked that that game was the stepping stone between old traditional Zelda and Breath of the Wild New Zelda in that it gave us all the items, it gave us all the things, but instead of tying them all to specific dungeons, you could rent them and therefore tackle the game in any order.

The Ringer-Verse
'The Legend of Zelda' 40th Anniversary Draft | Button Mash

And that was a really important design experiment that led us to what Zelda has now become.

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'The Legend of Zelda' 40th Anniversary Draft | Button Mash

and that we all love.

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'The Legend of Zelda' 40th Anniversary Draft | Button Mash

So it's a special one, and I just felt really good when I was playing it.

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'The Legend of Zelda' 40th Anniversary Draft | Button Mash

And I had a little look at it again when I was researching the book, and I just think it's one of the most underappreciated Seldas.

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'The Legend of Zelda' 40th Anniversary Draft | Button Mash

The book is called Super Nintendo, How One Japanese Company Unlocked the Power of Play in America.

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'The Legend of Zelda' 40th Anniversary Draft | Button Mash

And you can get it literally anywhere that sells books.

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'The Legend of Zelda' 40th Anniversary Draft | Button Mash

You can get it from Amazon or you can get it literally anywhere at all else.

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'The Legend of Zelda' 40th Anniversary Draft | Button Mash

It's available in audiobook.

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'The Legend of Zelda' 40th Anniversary Draft | Button Mash

And I'm also, of course, I'm games editor at The Guardian, where I write our Pushing Buttons games newsletter.

The Ringer-Verse
'The Legend of Zelda' 40th Anniversary Draft | Button Mash

So you can find me there as well.

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'The Legend of Zelda' 40th Anniversary Draft | Button Mash

What do you call the SNES?

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'The Legend of Zelda' 40th Anniversary Draft | Button Mash

S-N-E-S.

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'The Legend of Zelda' 40th Anniversary Draft | Button Mash

The S-N-E-S.

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'The Legend of Zelda' 40th Anniversary Draft | Button Mash

You left so many syllables.

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'The Legend of Zelda' 40th Anniversary Draft | Button Mash

It's simply what we call it.