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What if I told you that Breath of the Wild wouldn’t exist without Twilight Princess? Or that Zelda as a whole may not exist today without it? For the uninitiated, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess may be among the most important games Nintendo has ever developed, for a variety of reasons:It was the game that saved the Zelda series from being shelved after the poor reception of The Wind Waker in the west and the onset of “gamer drift” in Japan. (Gamer drift was a term used by Nintendo to refer to the decline of the Japanese video game market.)It played a key role in Nintendo better understanding their western audience, and was also the game that helped Nintendo understand what it takes to develop a large-scale, big-budget, narrative-heavy title from a time, resource, and management standpoint.Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma himself has stated that Breath of the Wild wouldn’t exist without Twilight Princess having come first, as a lot of their ideas in BOTW were originally intende...