“@DanielTepesKraus” Nintendo did intentionally implement the five stages of grief, yes. Eiji Aonuma stated in an interview that the grief emotions are in each area. However, the grief emotions are not only those emotions within each area.
Eiji Aonuma: “It’s certainly true that each one of these different episodes you talked about has a different emotional cast to it. One feels like it’s tinged with sadness, and another with anger - that certainly was intentional. But, I also want to point out that it’s not that each one of these episodes only has the one emotion that they are conveying. There are certainly other notes that we’re trying to hit as well, and the reason we did this is always to allow the player to experience that emotion”
