How One Man Changed Zelda Forever
Many legendary Nintendo developers have worked on The Legend of Zelda series, but few may be more unsung than Yoshiaki Koizumi. Today we'll look at the impact Koizumi has had on entirety of the series by looking at his contributions to Link's Awakening and Majora's Mask.
00:00 Intro
00:50 Hatching Zelda's First Story
04:16 Unmaking Zelda's Side Stories
06:49 From Game to Art
08:00 Koizumi
Special thanks to Ishaan Sahdev's The Legend of Zelda: A Complete Development History
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A9KW...
Additional footage by @SonicGhost64 and @captburgersonsfootagearchive
Title card footage: https://pixabay.com/videos/drone-natu... and https://pixabay.com/videos/time-watch...
Music:
Waking Up In Tarin's House - Extended as composed by Kazumi Totaka, Minako Hamano, and Kozue Ishikawa
• Link Wakes Up - The Legend of Zelda: Link'...
Great Bay Temple as composed by Koji Kondo and Toru Minegishi
• Video
Ballad of the Wind Fish as composed by Kazumi Totaka, Minako Hamano, and Kozue Ishikawa, performed by @RozenDJ
• Ballad of the Windfish (from "Link's Awake...
The Legend of Zelda Theme as composed by Koji Kondo, performed by @aleta5660
• The Legen of Zelda Main Theme (Relaxing Pi...
Interviews
Iwata Asks 2009 - https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Iwata-...
Wired 2007 - https://www.wired.com/2007/12/intervi...
Interview 2000 - https://glitterberri.com/staff-interv...
Official Nintendo Magazine 2011 - https://web.archive.org/web/201311041...
Edge 2008 - https://web.archive.org/web/200802081...
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