After being credited in every single The Legend of Zelda series entry (well, almost) since inception, Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto is officially nowhere to be found in the credits for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom in a series first. First spotted by GoNintendo and separately confirmed by IGN, Miyamoto's name isn't anywhere in the credits for Echoes of Wisdom, despite him being listed in just about every single other mainline Zelda game to date. In fact, the only Zelda or Zelda-adjacent games he's been missing from prior to this (per MobyGames) are clear spin-offs and series odd ducks.
He's not in Crypt of the Necrodancer: Cadence of Hyrule , for instance, nor is he listed in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (though he is listed in the original Hyrule Warriors as a special thanks). And Miyamoto is also nowhere to be found in the early CD-i Zelda games, Zelda's Adventure, The Faces of Evil, or The Wand of Gamalon . But in all those cases, it's pretty understandable why the series creator wasn't especially involved.
They were all developed entirely by outside studios, in genres and styles that are arguably not "core Zelda." But Echoes of Wisdom feels different. Even though it's co-developed by Grezzo, the outside studio worked in partnership with Nintendo EPD.
And even though Zelda's the protagonist and the gameplay's a bit different, there's really no arguing that it's not a "mainline Zelda game" by every possible metric. Rather, this seems to be further evidence of M.
