{"id":106088,"date":"2019-12-24T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/12\/axiom_verge_creator_says_the_sequel_has_a_distinctly_heavier_zelda_influence"},"modified":"2019-12-24T02:05:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T02:05:00","slug":"axiom-verge-creator-says-the-sequel-has-a-distinctly-heavier-zelda-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/24\/axiom-verge-creator-says-the-sequel-has-a-distinctly-heavier-zelda-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Axiom Verge Creator Says The Sequel Has A &#8220;Distinctly Heavier Zelda Influence&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b4c7fa85ecea7\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b4c7fa85ecea7\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b4c7fa85ecea7\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BhWRJb2hLi0?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It might not feel like it, but earlier this month, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/axiom_verge_2\"><strong>Axiom Verge 2<\/strong><\/a> was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/12\/axiom_verge_2_revealed_for_nintendo_switch_heres_a_sneak_peak\">officially revealed<\/a> for the Switch during Nintendo&#8217;s Indie World Showcase. As explained within the title, it&#8217;s a sequel to the original game released on the eShop in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>While Axiom Verge has been compared to the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/metroid\">Metroid<\/a><\/strong> series in the past, the sequel has also been influenced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/legend_of_zelda\"><strong>T<\/strong><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/legend_of_zelda\">he Legend of Zelda<\/a><\/strong> series. This was revealed by the game&#8217;s creator Tom Happ during an interview with Nintendo Enthusiast recently:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I think I\u2019m pretty much always digesting every game I\u2019ve ever played and using them to flavor my work in some way, but in <em>Axiom Verge 2<\/em> there is a distinctly heavier <em>Zelda<\/em> influence. Also, the newer <em>Prey<\/em> has been very influential to me, as well as the modern <em>Tomb Raider<\/em> games, <em>Horizon: Zero Dawn<\/em>, and <em>Shadow of the Colossus<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Apart from Zelda, Tom has also drawn on games like <strong>Tomb Raider<\/strong>, <strong>Horizon Zero Dawn<\/strong> and even <strong>Shadow of the Colossus<\/strong> over the sequel&#8217;s four-year development cycle.<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you looking forward to playing this title next year? Leave a comment down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BhWRJb2hLi0?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] It might not feel like it, but earlier this month, Axiom Verge 2 was officially revealed for the Switch during Nintendo&#8217;s Indie World Showcase. As explained within the title, it&#8217;s a sequel to the original game released on the eShop in 2017. While Axiom Verge has been compared to the Metroid series in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}