The developers working on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom "experienced strong deja vu" whilst developing the sequel due to its similarities to Breath of the Wild.
In an official Nintendo interview, producer Eiji Aonuma, director Hidemaro Fujibayashi, and designer Satoru Takizawa discussed the similarities between Tears of the Kingdom and its predecessor Breath of the Wild. "The word 'déjà vu' cropped up many times during development," Aonuma explains, "we were supposed to be making something different, but the various things we made gave off a similar impression to what we'd done previously."
