Shigeru Miyamoto is holy word for Nintendo. Much more if it is a video game Super Mario Bros, a character that the same designer and producer created. However, there were hints that two of his most loyal workers ignored with one of the franchise’s recent titles. And fortunately everything went well for them and for the followers of this saga.
Two journalists from IGN Spain they interviewed Shiro Mouri and Takashi Tezukadirector and producer of video games Super Mario on Nintendo, respectively. So, with the intention of knowing the day-to-day of the company, they asked what were the common indications of Shigeru Miyamoto.
Shigeru Miyamoto currently serves as the company’s creative advisor. His job is not that of a daily job and on top of each project, although he does walk through the company’s laboratories to observe, analyze and, if necessary, make adjustments to what they are doing with any of the video games.
In this sense, Mouri and Tezuka told the aforementioned medium that Miyamoto was not entirely convinced with what was being done in the development of Super Mario Bros. Wonder. In fact, in the talk they specified that the creative advisor did not agree with the Mario Elefante that is so popular among those who have already managed to play the title of nintendoswitch.
“With Wonder in particular, it’s not like Mr. Miyamoto was 100% convinced with our ideas,” says Tezuka in a chat with IGN Spain.
“Sometimes he would stop by where we were working, look at things and give his opinion. Usually he would observe things and make comments here and there, and even things that didn’t seem worth even cursory notes. I have worked with Mr. Miyamoto for a long time and I really understand him, so he was able to understand what he was hinting at or what he was getting at and we would have conversations on those kinds of topics,” he adds.
Super Mario Elephant
“He made a comment about Mario Elefante. That doesn’t look like a Mario character. If an elephant was actually spraying water, it wouldn’t move like that,” Shiro Mouri said, referring to Shigeru Miyamoto’s comments adjusting the game.
In the end, this pair of workers knows in depth the tastes of the people and what Miyamoto would surely approve, because Super Mario Elefante was left and stuck in a good way.
In Super Mario Bros Wonder you can choose between 12 characters. You will also have new powers such as the elephant fruit, the bubble flower and the perforating mushroom and new abilities. pic.twitter.com/3MQ1GYaxcn
—Gios (@GiosxGaming) August 31, 2023