Charles Pulliam-Moore
@charlespulliam.bsky.social
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Now: Film / TV / culture critic @ The Verge. As previously seen in: io9 + Gizmodo + NPR. GLAAD Award-winning comics wonk. Adjunct Pokémon Professor. Quite gay. Friend to all cats. charles@theverge.com
![Question: Compared to Link and Zelda, Ganon has always been prone to the most creative reimagining across from game to game. Who did you want this Ganon to be? And the second half of this question — I’ve heard you guys talking about people’s reactions to Sidon, so I have to ask: what sorts of discussions did you have internally about this Ganon’s aesthetics? Why is he so attractive?
Answer, Hidemaro Fujibayashi: With Ganon, this design really started with Twilight Princess. There’s a staffer [Satoru Takizawa] who’s been in charge of Ganon’s design since Twilight Princess, and Ganon holds a really special place in this staffer’s heart. [laughing]
From my perspective, of course there’s the understanding that Ganondorf is, of course, the evil antagonist, but he also plays almost as important a role as the main hero who stand in contrast to each other as part of this legend. So my only request I made was that because he’s such an important character at the same level as the protagonist, was to really make him a very cool, very awesome demon king.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7aabooyqkx6gj7wqb3feieop/bafkreid73blwigiaw2ifxadvmto4w5yoopj7xd7dnme56pn3n5c4pv7bpe)
