The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - 2023 (NSW)

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TEARS OF THE KINGDOM ゼルダの伝説 ティアーズ オブ ザ キングダム ©2023 Nintendo Version: Nintendo Switch (NSW) Publisher: NINTENDO CO., LTD. Production: NINTENDO - ENTERTAINMENT PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT DIVISION (EPD) - Production Group No.03 Development: NINTENDO CO., LTD. Additional Work: SRD CO., LTD. MONOLITH SOFTWARE INC. NINTENDO EUROPEAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT SAS MARIO CLUB CO., LTD. NINTENDO PICTURES CO., LTD. BLACK BEARD DESIGN STUDIO INC. SOUND RACER LTD. NEURON-AGE CO., LTD. IMAGICA DIGITALSCAPE CO., LTD.

KEY STAFF: NINTENDO CO., LTD Producer: Eiji Aonuma, Daiki Iwamoto, Makoto Miyanaga Director: Hidemaro Fujibayashi Staff: Yuya Sato, Yohei Fujino, Yasutaka Takeuchi, Mari Shirakawa, Kotaro Hiromatsu, Naoki Mori, Naoya Yamamoto, Ryuju Maeno, Kazuhiro Hosoi, Ryusuke Niitani, Kazunori Maejima, Junshi Jodai, Jordan Amaro, Jonghoon Park, HokWai Ng, Keiichiro Omura, Tetsuya Yamaura, Shinichiro Biwasaka, Tomo Oyama, Dai Takasuka, Takafumi Okawa, Ayaki Miyagi, Jun Yoshioka, Kazuhide Kawamura, Saburo Tateno, Chika Amemiya, Satoru Takizawa, Manabu Takehara, Aya Shida, Manabu Hiraoka, Hirohito Shinoda, Takafumi Kiuchi, Takehisa Taketoshi, Junki Ikeuchi, Daigo Shimizu, Yasuhiro Takao, Yohei Izumi, Hirotada Miyatake, Kazue Kaneoka, Kazuyuki Endo, Mareki Hosokawa, Rina Honda, Yutaro Sakai, Makoto Ota, Shunichi Shirai, Shikou Yamaue, Takayuki Yanagisawa, Shoko Naka, Karon Shiihara, Kanae Hamagishi, Shintaro Sasaki, Masato Amma, Kana Ichigaya, Haruna Noda, Ryota Iwai, Minami Akao, Hirofumi Orita, Koichi Miura, Ryo Inomata, Hajime Itou, Hitomi Matsuta, Taiki Mitsuishi, Hiroyuki Yagi, Yukari Kitada, Riki Kobayashi, Makoto Tada, Taro Nonaka, Hiroyuki Morishima, Takuma Tokita, Shungo Suzuki, Kojiro Inoue, Kyosuke Kashima, Hiroshi Ueda, Junya Hiramatsu, Naoki Nishimura, Chiharu Takabayashi, Yuki Hazama, Yuka Nagai, Ryoko Morita, Bolin Chen, Jyunichi Usui, Sota Kagino, Yuki Shimizu, Ryuji Kobayashi, Keijiro Inoue, Yoshiyuki Oyama, Takuhiro Dohta, Takahiro Okuda, Yuichiro Okamura, Katsuhisa Sato, Shigetoshi Kitayama, Haruki Sato, Corey Bunnell, Akira Furukawa, Haruya Uematsu, Masato Orishige, Takashi Kuboki, Fumi Konishi, Hiroki Taguchi, Yoshimitsu Yamada, Takahiro Takayama, Naoki Fukada, Yuji Demura, Yufei Zheng, Satoru Osako, Yosuke Sakai, Tomohisa Saito, Atsushi Asakura, Takanori Nishino, Daisuke Shimizu, Wataru Mori, Yuki Kaji, Nao Ueda, Mengyang Wang, Ryosuke Funaki, Hiroyuki Taniwa, Ryota Maruko, Shozo Hidaka, Yasuhiro Tokunaga, Shota Watanabe, Takahiro Miyagawa, Ryotaro Sato, Go Mimura, Yasushi Ebisawa, Toyoki Kataoka, Masaki Muto, Takahiro Matsuda, Kazuya Sumaki, Takuma Oiso, Shoka Ochi, Yuki Yamada, Masaki Ikeno, Naoki Ishiyama, Hitoshi Kanetani, Yoji Okudera, Yoshihiko Sakuraba, Takeshi Ishida, Kenichi Hirose, Ryuichi Kawamata, Isamu Endo, Ryota Jinguji, Koichi Kyuma, Kazuma Takahashi, Yukihiro Wakigami, Yuta Yamamoto, Chihei Kawamura, Yuma Sakata, Yusuke Toda, Kentaro Nagasawa, Tabi Morinaga, Manaka Kataoka, Maasa Miyoshi, Masato Ohashi, Tsukasa Usui, Mitsutoshi Kodama, Yohei Miyagawa, Isami Yoshida, Takahiro Nosho, Yuki Tsuji, Riyu Tamura, Takuro Yasuda, Tomoyasu Taka, Eiji Nakamura, Chiharu Minekawa, Hiroki Taniguchi, Shotaro Arakawa, Yasushi Inomata, Jun Tanaka, Katsuya Eguchi, Shinya Takahashi, Shigeru Miyamoto, Shuntaro Furukawa SRD CO., LTD Staff: Takuma Deguchi, Yosuke Sakooka, Junya Okamoto, Yuki Hashizume, Daiki Kimura, Shinya Osaki, Hiroyuki Kira, Minoru Hamaura, Toshiyuki Doi, Naonari Fukumoto, Yukihiro Kanamaru, Takuma Fukui, Heita Fukuyama, Takahiro Isokane, Osamu Higuchi, Kenji Matsutani, Yoshitaka Takeshita, Hiromichi Miyake, Shinji Hatada, Nobuhiro Sumiyoshi, Tadashi Sakamoto, Naomi Iga, Miku Shimizu MONOLITH SOFT INC. Staff: Daiki Ito, Fumiya Obata, Hiroshi Ando, Kengo Yuasa, Kenta Takiguchi, Kohei Sato, Naoto Murakami, Saina Omatsu, Saori Kometani, Takafumi Uechi, Toshikazu Tsuruoka, Yuka Ogaki, Yuki Nakamura, Yuri Kurihara, Yuumi Shiraki, Andrzej Zamoyski, Takuya Nakamura, Toshikazu Onodera, Takahito Sekimoto, Yuma Hashimoto, Hiromi Takahashi, Makoto Fujisaki, Makoto Yodawara, Maya Katsurashima, Teruaki Takahashi, Bungo Takahashi, Satoko Iwase, Hiroki Omote, Nobuhiko Okayasu, Tetsuya Taniyama, Keita Kondo, Jun Kitaoka, Shinji Yato, Akari Iwakiri, Ayumi Yamazaki, Makiko Nihari, Rika Aoki, Tadatsugu Motomiya, Takafumi Shimotamari, Masato Adachi, Rie Motonari, Toshiyuki Hashimoto, Akinobu Yamakawa, Ayaka Sugimoto, Fumiya Ito, Kana Yamamoto, Kanako Uno, Kaori Shoji, Hiroaki Todo, Mai Yuguchi, Mayu Sato, Naoki Uemura, Natsuki Aibara, Natsuki Yokoyama, Natsuo Komatsubara, Ryunosuke Ogami, Satoko Nishio, Shinya Gima, Shota Akita, Takaaki Koido, Takamasa Yamaguchi, Tomomi Hampton, Tomoyo Yamanaka, Yuhei Iwasa, Yuria Hamada, Keihan Fujii, Shuichi Murata, Ayano Oshimi, Tatsuo Oshima, Erika Shinoda, Tokuhiro Yumoto, Seiichi Hishinuma, Shinya Moriyasu, Hiroyasu Sato, William Iamazi Ferro, Masafumi Naito, Shota Takizawa, Takeshi Okui, Kenta Sakai, Koh Arai, Moe Igarashi, Shunsuke Tateishi, Yukiko Maruyama, Syusaku Chiba, Taiki Yamanaka, Yosuke Nakashima, Yuki Ishikawa, Shoya Miyagi, Taiki Nakayama, Naoyuki Imanaka, Atsushi Domoto, Masumi Senoo, Yuko Morise, Jean-Baptiste Bongrand, Gomez Aristides, Yuya Tokaji, Shoya Masuji, Hiroki Ishida, Hiroki Nakamura, Nobuyuki Shinma, Daisuke Imoto, Hirotake Sawaguchi, Jumpei Itatsu, Kota Saito, Kota Tamaoki, Ryoma Seita, Naoto Takahashi NINTENDO EUROPEAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT SAS Staff: Philippe Phothisane, Sebastien Guido, Mirolyub Radoslavov Hristov NINTENDO PICTURES CO., LTD. Staff: Ryuichi Tsurunozono, Yumi Ooka MARIO CLUB CO., LTD. Staff: Yasunori Shibayama, Narimasa Hakodate, Rina Uramoto, Akitoshi Taniguchi, Aimi Ayashiro, Masahiro Hara, Hisashi Takizaki, Riwa Kunitake, Shingo Adachi, Kaoru Ishiyama, Naoki Inoue, Shohei Ueno, Hayato Ono, Yuko Kadosaka, Nao Kawasaki, Taishi Kanchi, Ryota Kimura, Sakie Kondo, Kanta Sawai, Yuichi Shimoda, Naoya Takechi, Kota Nagame, Daisuke Nishikawa, Saki Fujihara, Masaki Furukawa, Hayato Horiuchi, Emiko Yanai, Ayaka Yamane, Ryohei Otani, Tomoaki Tatsumi, Kazuhito Nagahara, Shunsuke Muneyasu, Takeshi Ikeda, Kazehiko Furuta, Masaki Mori, Akane Terashima, Nobuya Kato, Asuka Sakai IMAGICA DIGITALSCAPE CO., LTD. Staff: Makiko Yamamoto, Miho Mashimo

NOTES: Staff List: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Credits) Research: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (KRIM) The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a 2023 action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. The player controls Link as he searches for Princess Zelda and fights to prevent Ganondorf from destroying Hyrule. The development team created ideas for this sequel during the development of Breath the Wild. The technical director, Takuhiro Dohta, said that he was inspired by Wii Sports Resort to reuse a setting, but build around it and add new mechanics: "The idea of having new discoveries in the same setting was a main objective." Dohta also noted that using familiar locations is useful for players when diving from the sky. The team extended the exploration areas into the sky and underground. Aonuma referred to Skyward Sword commenting that due to the limitations of the hardware the developers were not able to achieve a seamless descent from the sky to the surface. The Ascend ability was developed from a debug feature that Aonuma and Fujibayashi used to exit the caves. They agreed that it was tiresome to navigate all the way through the caves and wanted a cheat to get to the surface. Aonuma cited inspiration from the open-world games Red Dead Redemption 2 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Additional graphic work from Imagica-Digitalscape, Digital Fronter, Creek & River, Black Beard Design Studio, and others. Development time for this project was approximately 5 years. By March 2022, Tears of the Kingdom was essentially complete, but Nintendo delayed it for a year to refine it. Both Nintendo and Monolith Soft recruited permanent and contract staff specifically for this project. Technology/Engine: ModuleSystem, AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 1.0 Personnel: 200+ Developers from Nintendo Co., Ltd. Personnel: 100+ Developers from Nintendo Group (Monolith Soft, SRD, NERD, Mario Club) Cooperation: Mario Club (Debug), SRD (Program), NERD (Program), Monolith Soft (Visuals, Program), Nintendo Pictures (Visuals) Cooperation: Black Beard Design Studio Inc. (Visuals), Neuron-Age (Visuals), Sound Racer (Sound) Development: Nintendo Co., Ltd. (Director, Planning, Visuals, Program, Sound) Nintendo EPD - Production Group No.03

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