Adam Robinson-Yu, creator of 2019 indie hit A Short Hike, has said in an interview that "micro puzzles" such the Korok Seeds from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are how traveling through open world games can stay compelling and "create interest in your mind."
As part of a larger interview with Edge Magazine in issue 413, in which numerous creatives and designers speak about the challenges of creating open worlds in video games, Robinson-Yu holds up Korok Seeds and the puzzles associated with them in both Zelda games as inspiration for his own content in A Short Hike.
