the universe of The Legend of Zelda It is full of curiosities and probably in your adventure with the current The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom you will have lived countless anecdotes that are worth telling. However, this time we are going to look much further back to talk about one of the great secrets of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
What for many is considered the best installment of the saga was one of those essential titles in the Nintendo 64 catalog. The game is very special for many reasons, one of them being combat against the various final bossesbecause the truth is that some of these encounters are the best of the franchise.
For example, one of them is the battle against volvagia, the mighty fire dragon found in the Death Mountain Crater Fire Temple. But something that is special about this imposing creature is that when designing its movements, the outstanding Star Fox 64 was used as a base.
This was admitted at the time by the development team in a publication by Iwata Asks from Nintendo in 2011, in which the late big N’s former president spoke with two of his programmers, Kazuki Morita and Satoru Takizawawho were in charge of creating the different final bosses and their respective patterns.
It was in this particular interview that both admitted that in order to Volvagia’s design was based on a fight against an enemy from Star Fox 64 so that their behavior was identical, both when moving from one side to another and when aiming at Link himself.
Takizawa: An example from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is the boss Volvagia, who looks like a dragon.
Iwata: yes. The boss of the Temple of Fire.
Takizawa: Volvagia is a dragon, so it twists its body. I only gave Blueberry the parts of the dragon model, but she got it going right away. It was a mystery how she could do that.
Iwata: You were blown away, like “I don’t get it, but wow!
Takizawa: yes. I can’t help but wonder how she did it. He said it was the same as programming Star Fox 64. There’s a scene where another fighter jet follows the Arwing and…
Iwata: oh, that? That’s how it is! Is the same!
Takizawa: I should have known you’d notice right away! But when I heard that, I didn’t fully understand it. I just thought wow, that’s great!
Iwata: The way the enemy moves while flying and Volvagia’s movements are exactly the same.
Morita: I could easily do this by trading the dragon for the gunship.
Takizawa: I was like “wow!” and “I see!” and I had a great time those days surprising myself with everything.
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