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A portion of an MTV interview with Team Meat's Edmund McMillen...
MTV: What game has most influenced you, and why?
ED: The very 1st "Zelda" for the NES probably influenced me most, design-wise. I loved the mystery in the game and the fact that it felt like it was based off the idea of exploring as a child. It was also an extremely well done game technically, its exploration aspects were amazing, dungeons and enemy introduction were very inspired and over all it feels like the perfect game to me, even now.
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