ETAO PODCAST, EPISODE 168.

Bryant Cannon tunes into our frequency to talk a bit about OXENFREE II: Lost Signals (which it’s too early to spoil), and a whole lot about The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (which it’s high time to start spoiling). We do in fact start spoiling the latest Zelda at 00:36:13.

OXENFREE II: Lost Signals is out now on Steam, Switch, Playstation, and Netflix.
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• The Boss Fight Book about Majora’s Mask goes deep into Zelda’s production pipeline, and into Yoshiaki Koizumi injecting narrative verve into these gameplay-first designs, and also into the prickly, paranoid nature of fan theories.

• Here’s the interview in which Eiji Aonuma contrasts the (remarkably fast) development cycle of Majora’s Mask with the (remarkably not-fast) development cycle of Tears of the Kingdom.

• Here’s Meg Jayanth’s GDC talk about giving NPCs agency.

• And here’s one of Bryant’s many ambitious TotK flying machines.

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“All The People Say (Season 5)” by Carpe Demon.
“Arcadia Station” and “To The Island” from the OXENFREE II: Lost Signals OST by scntfc.

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