When I create a game, I try to focus more on the emotions that the player experiences during the game play.

As I am ageing, naturally, how I want my videogames to be played must be changing.

Fortunately, because of the spread of smart devices, people take games for granted now. It's a good thing for us, because we do not have to worry about making games something that are relevant to general people's daily lives.

Throughout the Zelda series I've always tried to make players feel like they are in a kind of miniature garden. So, this time also, my challenge was how to make people feel comfortable and sometimes very scared at the same time. That is the big challenge.

I don't like all the attention. I think it's better to let my work do the talking.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

I am not Link, but I do know him! Even after 18 years, the Legend of Zelda never stops changing and this game is no different. We are now taking you to a world where Link has grown up--a world where he will act different and look different. In order to grow, Link must not stand still and neither will I.