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Feature: How David Lynch’s Twin Peaks Influenced The Legend Of Zelda Series

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As many of you will have been reminded by playing the recently released remake on Switch,
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is a surreal little adventure with an odd cast of characters which give Koholint Island a very specific feel. The first portable entry in the celebrated series, this diminutive adventure would go on to influence every Zelda game to come with its otherworldly, dreamlike sense of place and motley crew of oddballs. The developers have noted the conscious influence of David Lynch on the 1993 Game Boy original, so it follows that the writer/director/artist has left a lasting impression on the series as a whole.

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, director Takashi Tezuka was reminded of his desire to build a world of characters inspired by
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when he set about creating the original
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in the early '90s. Broadcast in Japan as development began, David Lynch and Mark Frost's hugely influential and bizarre series was as popular there as it was in the west and Tezuka was keen to infuse some of its idyllic small-town flavour and surrealism into his diminutive Game Boy title.

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