Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom was a "dungeon creation" game until Eiji Aonuma flipped the table a year in – "I was right next to them thinking of something different"

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Instead, it sounds like the customizable dungeons would’ve been part of a more traditional Zelda adventure.

“They showed it to me and told me to give it a try,” Aonuma says.

But it took around a year for Aonuma to suggest pivoting away from the dungeon-making concept.