/vr/ - Retro Games

I know some rooms and the staircases got used on the final game's Ganon's Tower but, was fstdan ever supposed to actually be a game area? (Either when they considered the whole game to be inside Ganon's Castle or after that). Or was it purely made to look pretty in the screenshots and was never nothing more than a test map?

I feel without context many of user have had this over-romantisized idea of what Zelda 64 for the 64DD was and in the end it's all just test maps. The imagination of children and teenagers from the late 90's/early 00's fueled by just glorified test areas that were never going to be in the final game.