Satoru Iwata: A true top-down view actually has lots of problems. If you make it truthfully, it doesn’t look interesting at all.
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Eiji Aonuma: Yeah. We had purposefully tilted the objects back so you could see Link and the others’ faces and bodies when looking from directing above.
Iwata: That way, instead of an unrecognizable green object, it looked like Link.
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Eiji Aonuma: Yeah. We had purposefully tilted the objects back so you could see Link and the others’ faces and bodies when looking from directing above.
Iwata: That way, instead of an unrecognizable green object, it looked like Link.
—Iwata Asks, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, "Beautiful Teamwork
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