Ahoy! There (Could Have Been) Miis in That Thar Hyrule!

According to an interview conducted by MTV during GDC, Miyamoto apparently let it slip that there were indeed Miis hidden somewhere within the depths of Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess ““ but were added after the development process.

Stephen Totilo of MTV News quotes:

“With the popularity of the Miis, they’ve been having fun just fiddling around with Miis in the ‘Twilight Princess’ engine. This is something our development teams do all the time once they get done with a game and start thinking about other ideas. It’s kind of funny because you can see Miis running around in the ['Zelda'] world of Hyrule, but there’s no telling that would ever actually come to fruition. It’s just our team members having fun and taking off some stress after a tough development cycle.”

Aw, man. We were so close, too.

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