Tezuka:

Yes. That was together with Capcom. At that time, Yoshiki Okamoto14 was at Capcom, and he wanted to make a Zelda game. The plan was to create a remake of the first The Legend of Zelda. I thought if it was just going to be an adaptation of the first one then it should be alright. Then, while we were talking about it, I realised he had quite a strong affection for the Zelda games. Normally, though, I would have been resistant to leaving games like Zelda or Mario to anyone else.