Moon Studios have cited the Nintendo lineage directly, and the structure is the shared part: a connected world gated by abilities rather than by level, where a new movement power reopens places you have already walked past.
Video GameSeries· 1986· Action
ゼルダの伝説 (The Legend Of Zelda)
by 宮本 茂 Shigeru Miyamoto, 青沼 英二 Eiji Aonuma
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The Zelda team has credited the American computer RPGs, Ultima among them, for the shape of the overworld: a continuous top-down land explored freely, with dungeons set into it and equipment that changes where you can reach. Miyamoto's own stated starting point was different and personal, a childhood memory of finding a cave, and Zelda drops the things that make Ultima an RPG. There are no experience points, no classes, no party and no statistics. Filed MEDIUM for exactly that reason: the debt is to the exploration structure rather than to the rules.