[seventeen] Aonuma discussed that the design staff wished to express Link being an more mature teen: "The fact that we're looking at Link on horseback and swinging a sword, I think that's one more way through which Link has matured".[12] In Twilight Princess, Link has the ability to transform into a wolf. Aonuma stated that the design staff thought

Mainly because of the Slumber of Restoration, Link is chronologically more than a hundred years aged in Breath of the Wild, Even though the Slumber seems to possess allowed him to retain a young Organic age - in fact, He's refused support in the Noble Canteen in Gerudo City because of this.[119] He is even so permitted to climb Mount Lanayru, which