At this point, Eiji Aonuma's name is just as synonymous with The Legend of Zelda as Shigeru Miyamoto – after all, he's now led the series just as long as the man who created it. But early in his tenure with the series, Aonuma actually wanted to move on to something entirely different. Until, that is, Miyamoto convinced him that making Zelda games was his inescapable fate.
"I had worked on three different Legends Of Zelda," Aonuma said in the June 2005 issue of Edge Magazine. Aonuma initially served as one of many directors on Ocarina of Time, and would take on more direct leadership roles for Majora's Mask and The Wind Waker.
