The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s map is based on Kyoto
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It turns out that the latest version of Hyrule is grounded in the modern day. According to Hidemaro Fujibayashi, viagra sale director of the just-released Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, while the game’s map may take players to an exciting fantasy realm filled with monsters and magic, it was actually based in part on his hometown of Kyoto, Japan.
“When I first started looking at this game, I had Link in an empty game field and I would just walk around and try to map out and get a feel for the distance and where landmarks should be,” he says. “What helped me with this was my hometown, Kyoto. I took a map of Kyoto and overlaid it on the game world, and I tried to imagine going to places that I know in Kyoto. I’d think ‘It takes this much time to…
