by Mitch - 03.14.07
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.
Multiplayer: Nintendo’s Miyamoto On One-Handed ‘Mario,’ Miis In ‘Zelda’
The quote CLEARLY says that they were just having fun after the development was over.
But it would be awesome if they had put Miis into it.. maybe in the next Zelda the postman is a Mii of you!
Priyesh - 03.14.07 8:41 pm
Second sentence: “This is something our development teams do all the time once they get done with a game and start thinking about other ideas.”
Or, heck, even the remainder of the sentence you bolded: “but there’s no telling [if] that would ever actually come to fruition.”
He’s not talking about something in the commercial copies of TP, he’s talking about the tinkering they’ve done with the game after the fact as they work on ideas for the next Zelda.
JDavis - 03.14.07 8:43 pm
Brilliant reporting. I read the headline and almost went to pull out my copy of TP. Hurray for misleading sensationalism!
Greg Z - 03.14.07 8:51 pm
hmm… post production
geekrecon - 03.14.07 8:56 pm
see - I’ve always thought the miis would work great in the “celda” universe!
alto - 03.14.07 8:57 pm
Alright, I fixed up the post. Perhaps I left it open a little too wide to, as a grumpy old Greg Z said, “sensationalism.”
Sorry for the misleadingness, guys.
Mitch - 03.14.07 9:01 pm
“Close” like we were “close” to having star wings in OOT?
TakaM - 03.14.07 9:12 pm
I found all the hidden Miis. Unfortunately, I had to destroy them under very difficult circumstances
Link - 03.14.07 9:12 pm
What do you mean, Takam? You can still get them, with gameshark.
Mitch - 03.14.07 9:26 pm
the mii’s are probably running around hyrule town
Marv - 03.14.07 9:37 pm
MTV.com? Ugh. Almost as bad as 1Up.
Can you see these through gameshark or something?
yanipheonu - 03.14.07 9:40 pm
I wonder if you can battle them. If they do run around hyrule, then they must offer that option.
but alas they did away with that.
would have been nice though.
EOM - 03.14.07 10:07 pm
thats exactly what I meant mitch
TakaM - 03.15.07 12:11 am
They could have been the size of the Occo (flying human-bird thingys which act as a dungeon warp), that would have been hilarious to see those miis as tiny “borrowers” size characters running around avoiding the footsteps of the giant hylians.
I can see them hiding behind pots and pans on shelves in the middle of cutscenes in the bar in Hyrule town, excellent stuff…. if only.
Jamie - 03.15.07 5:53 am
Takam: ARWING. Not Star Wing. Don’t mess up that Arwing…. ’s name.
JDavis - 03.15.07 4:45 pm
Heh, it would be a pretty funny easter egg to have this really hard to get to secret area, only to find that they only real thing there is my grumpy looking old-man Mii Randal, sitting there looking bored.
Or perhaps the…erm…mini-Miis could be used as something similar to the Piccori in Minish Cap.
9th Sage - 03.15.07 4:45 pm
Jamie: And they would be referred to in-game as the “Miinish”?
JDavis - 03.15.07 4:48 pm
Bah, 9th Sage beat me to the reference, but I made it in a funnier manner >_>
JDavis - 03.15.07 4:49 pm
argh, I knew it didn’t sound right
TakaM - 03.15.07 6:16 pm