Kensuke Tanabe, from Nintendo, has acknowledged that the title may have included several explorable worlds, not just two worlds (Light and Darkness).
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past could have included more than two worlds. Nintendo, during the development of this famous iteration of the saga in SNES, considered the introduction of multiple parallel worlds so that players could explore not only the World of Light and the World of Darkness, but others.
World of Light and Dark World: two worlds for the sake of the game
Kensuke Tanabe, producer of Luigi’s Mansion 3 and Metroid Prime 4, participated in that project led by Takashi Tezuka and produced by Shigeru Miyamoto, but many things happened until it was released in November 1991 in Japan; including problems and perspective changes.
One of them was in the design department, as he has recognized in a meeting with Kotaku. The Japanese, who remembers with jubilation his participation in this title, assumes the unpredictability and changes of plans as something natural:
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"There are many moments in the development of video games where things do not go as expected initially," he begins. “When that happens, I try not to think about that initial idea too much. For example, when we worked on The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past; At the beginning, we were thinking of structuring the game with numerous parallel worlds. However, in order to establish the gameplay in the end, we decided that it would be better to reduce it to two worlds: World of Light and Dark World, ”he adds as an example of a situation that is more common than it might seem. "I think the development of video games involves a lot of work that you didn't have unless you can really try it," he ends.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past was a commercial success without palliatives. Only in SNES, not counting its version adapted for Game Boy Advance, the game managed to sell 4.61 million units worldwide. His legacy has led the game to have a sequel – only numbered with a "2" in Japan – in 2013 under the name of The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds for Nintendo 3DS.
Despite fans' desire for this title to live the same fate as The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (Game Boy, 1993) on Nintendo Switch, with an adapted graphic remake, at the moment it is simply a wish.
The next big date of the saga with fans will be on Nintendo Switch, although it still has no release date: the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
