Tears of the Kingdom Team Reflects on Zelda Innovation, Player Creativity, and Designing a Complete Game Experience
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Tears of the Kingdom will not have downloadable content or expansions. The developers achieved everything they wanted in the base game.
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Players have come up with creative vehicles and builds exceeding the developers' expectations. This highlights the freedom afforded by the game's systems.
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The team is open to more radical reinventions of the Zelda formula in future games, but always focuses first on creating fun new experiences.
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The Depths area provides challenge and contrast to surface exploration. Developers intended it as high risk, high reward.
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Design inspiration comes from diverse sources, like haunted house techniques to manipulate emotions. This philosophy guided creation of Depths and sky areas.