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Finally! I've had these numbers lying around that I've needed to subtract for years

@CarpeDiem The 2D Zelda team made Tri Force Heroes with assistance from Grezzo. That game had the same director as A Link Between Worlds, even. I wouldn't be surprised if Hiromasa Shikata and the 2D Zelda team are making the Link's Awakening remake with assistance from Grezzo as well. Kotaku is notorious for poor journalism, so take anything they say without a direct quote with a grain of salt. Unfortunately Nintendo Life often just reprints what they read on other sites

@DrLockdown You're forgetting about what happened to Mr. Resetti

Kinda weird to refer to Hisashi Nogami by his given name and not his surname

Edit: I see it's been corrected now!

Another case of automation killing jobs

It would have been funny if they just called him Doug Koopa in Japan

@BulbasaurusRex lol

Oh cool another sword fighter.

@Liam_Doolan lol no problem

"Seperate"? Spellcheck?

I personally really dislike achievements. They can be addictive for me in a very tedious, unfun way, and if I choose to ignore them then I feel like I'm leaving something unfinished which gives me anxiety. I'm fine with Nintendo adding them as long as there's an option to disable them completely, not even seeing other players' ranks or levels or whatever. Even knowing about them takes away from a game for me. But I'm glad that it seems to add something for other people.

@dartmonkey No problem!

Some of these credits are off. Hideki Konno directed Yoshi's Story, not Katsuya Eguchi. Yoshiaki Koizumi didn't direct Super Mario Odyssey, Kenta Motokura did. That's just what I see straight off, but you guys are trying and I appreciate that. You should credit Satoru Okada with Kid Icarus too, since that guy gets so little credit for what he's done generally.

It all depends on the games. Software is what brings people to platforms, not cool new tricks.

@KingMike First thing I thought of!

Tomato Adventure localization please!

I have high hopes for Takahisa Taura as a director. This game looks great.

..just FYI, "comprised of" is incorrect grammar. It should either be "composed of" or "comprising"

But I'm just an internet commenter, not a professional journalist, so what do I know?

@Retupmocnin Don't believe this at all. Yes, the casual video game player won't know who makes the things they love, just like a lot of regular moviegoers don't know the names of directors. But people who have a real interest in games will know gamemakers' names, in the west and Japan alike. A brand means nothing without the people behind it. And people know that. It doesn't matter where you're from.

@Delibheel Who said that?

Or see if it's for you with the Wii game you already spent your money on ~8 years ago!

@patbacknitro18 Who is heart, you say? Well, most of us know him by another name, but his real name is actually ♥♪!?

@avocadopear I also don't think Kumazaki worked on SSBU besides in a consulting capacity because he directs one of the character's games. HAL doesn't make Smash anymore.

Shinya Kumazaki directs all the mainline Kirby games since Kirby Super Star Ultra. Possibly just putting something he admires next to the character he has been working with for the last 10 years.

They did it on purpose, just like the Darksiders twitter "accidentally" leaking it a week ago. So obviously calculated.

Let me guess. Yoshio Sakamoto doesn't know how to make a Metroid game, as proven by the horrible Metroid: Other M? Now reiterated by this scrapped game. I'm honestly not surprised at all

@Liam_Doolan Loving the subtitle, haha

@Liam_Doolan No problem!

@Liam_Doolan "Party like it's 1995" doesn't make any sense. People weren't buying NES's in 1995. The only relevance of the year 1995 is that it's when these charts started. The quote you took the year from was saying that the NES has never led in sales on their charts until now.

My guess is that Masahiro Sakurai moved to the producer role and Shinya Kumazaki was brought in to take over directing and that's why Kirby Star Allies is a bit lackluster.

Nintendo Life misattribution of the day. Yuji Naka did not create Sonic the Hedgehog. He was just a programmer. Hirokazu Yasuhara led the design of the game and Naoto Ohshima designed the characters. Either of them could be said to be the creator of Sonic, but it's a huge stretch to say Yuji Naka did. Good reporting, guys.

@Julien I didn't read it so I can't re-read it. Can you explain it to me?

Where's ARMS?

@ThomasBW84 Not going to say the name of the composer though?

It's not even a Mario game.

@NinNin @SwitchVogel Nope. His alias 'Shikamoto' is credited for being the "New Matsuoka" for the game, a reference to Hirofumi Matsuoka who was an artist at Nintendo at the time. He was just an artist for the game. People commonly think he directed the game because there is another person credited as 'Yamamoto' with the credit "Directed by", but this person is Masao Yamamoto who was the programming director for the game. And then of course Satoru Okada is credited as chief director because he oversaw all elements of the game. A quick look at a credits video on youtube will verify this. And in this interview about the game Sakamoto says himself that he came in during the last 3 months before release, even though the interview is set up to give the two interviewees way more credit than they are due and it doesn't mention Okada by name once (just "another new employee"):
https://www.nintendo.com/nes-classic/metroid-developer-interview

Yoshio Sakamoto is NOT the creator of the Metroid series, not even close. He came in near the end of development on the NES game. The credit should go to Satoru Okada, who directed Metroid, but for some reason Nintendo seems to be hiding his name from publications as of late. Sakamoto took over the series afterward and ran it into the ground with rehashes of the same game over and over and then one different take (Other M) that was garbage because it didn't directly remake Okada's creation. Please don't continue this marketing lie from Nintendo to make it seem like Sakamoto brings value to a game @switchvogel

Stop teasing us Americans.

I've just been crying and crying. I don't know how to say how this affects me.

I could just tell that this interview was with Stephen Totilo. Hands down worst dude in video game journalism.