On Pokemon games... (no spoilers)

[inkedfeathers]

Junichi Masuda: Morality in the story is one of the core things I think about when making these games. I think anyone who has the capacity to play the game will inherently be in a privileged position; they are above a certain level of poverty to even own video games. This means they might be in a more favorable position to change the world when

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[burning_phoneix]

Nintendo are really nice like that aren't they? While other developers are talking industry jargon and market analysis....they're just going around making games fun and nice.

For example, in the Wind Waker HD remake for WiiU they added the abilities for link to take selfies, like so:

[inkedfeathers]

Hee, you can take pictures in certain places in XY too, if memory serves!

♥ Nintendo's just lovely, seriously.

Now, who was it who was told not to discuss his hobbies in interviews anymore, because every time he started doing something new, he brought it over to the Wii or other consoles (got a dog, loved it, bring out Nintendogs! Need to work out more, oh, hey, let's bring sports and workouts to our games~).

[burning_phoneix]

I think it was Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario and Zelda.

IIRC, Zelda was created out of his childhood hobby of exploring caves. Pikmin was created after he took up gardening.

It's all so weird XD They just make games they seem to like and everyone buys millions of copies...I mean let's recap:

Animal Crossing: Creator of the series comes from a small village and was homesick when he moved to Kyoto to work for Nintendo, so he creates a village simulator!

Pokemon: Creator loved collecting and fighting Kabuto beetles, so he makes a monster training game!

Captain Rainbow: I....I have no idea what they were smoking when they made this game.

[inkedfeathers]

HAHA, your last example!

But yes, Nintendo's a strange, dreamlike company that somehow manages to be incredibly successful.