Close To 100 Link Designs Were Considered For Zelda: Breath Of The Wild, Devs Explain Blue Tunic

It's not so easy being green.

Changing the appearance of your hugely popular series mascot would be a pretty bold move for anyone, but that's exactly what the team behind The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild did when the game arrived on Switch and Wii U last year. Gone are the days of the classic green get-up, replaced by a rather fetching blue number that even ditches that famous pointy hat.

So why was this change in design implemented? Was it necessary for the game in some way? Was it perhaps just to shake things up? Well, comments made by series producer Eiji Aonuma, lead artist Yoshiyuki Oyama, and art director Satoru Takizawa explain exactly that (the comments below have reportedly been translated from one of the game's recent art books).

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