Posted at 05:43 PM on Sunday November 27th, 2011
The following interview concerning the then-unnamed Pokémon Gold & Silver was taken from Game Staff List Association Japan, a Japanese site that aims to, among other things, summarize, transcribe, and categorize interviews with video game developers. It took place in 1997, with participants Shigeru Miyamoto, Satoshi Tajiri (the creator of Pokémon), and Tsunekazu Ishihara (the [...]
Posted at 04:14 PM on Saturday November 26th, 2011
Contrary to the rumors that originated with this post on the Playstation forums, the nicknames below appear to be the only alternate names for the Colossi. The names Malus, Cenobia, etc. that were so enthusiastically adopted by the fans seem to be fan-made themselves. View the thread debunking the original forum post here for more [...]
Posted at 03:53 PM on Wednesday November 23rd, 2011
The official Shadow of the Colossus guidebook includes an explanation of the game’s ending, concept art, an interview with the developers, and unused Colossi. The synopsis below sheds light on the untold aspects of SotC’s story, but be sure to check out the other features as well! Click the images to enlarge. A heavy price [...]
Posted at 12:00 AM on Tuesday November 22nd, 2011
Here we’ve gathered the untold stories from Pokémon’s creators. Show off your newfound knowledge to your friends! 1. Mew was born because of a programmer messing around! It was Morimoto, a programmer, who brought Mew into the world. It seems that the final game had just a little room to spare, so he secretly slipped [...]
Posted at 12:00 AM on Monday November 21st, 2011
Did you predict that Pokémon would be such a big hit? Watanabe: I didn’t think it would be such an explosive hit when we were first making it. I felt the games would be a success if we were able to do what we liked. Sugimori: Of course, I knew that in order for the [...]
Posted at 03:44 PM on Sunday November 20th, 2011
The mystery of the secret garden you can climb to at the top of the Shrine of Worship is touched on by the official guidebook to the game. The Beautiful Scenery Stretches Out Before You Once you arrive at the top of the shrine, follow the path to the left to arrive at a garden [...]
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Let’s move on to Gold and Silver. What sort of features did you devise for those two games? Watanabe: The first order of business was to expand the number of places you could go and increase the number of Pokémon. We also tried to realize the things we couldn’t do in Red and Green due [...]
Posted at 12:00 AM on Tuesday November 8th, 2011
Did you have everything planned out from the very beginning, right down to the little details? Or did you gradually add things along the way? Masuda: Game Freak’s modus operandi is that we add ideas and break things down. For example, at one point we took out the health gauge during battles and tried using [...]
Posted at 12:00 AM on Monday November 7th, 2011
There are many different types of Pokémon, like water and grass. Did you have that in mind from the beginning? Sugimori: The idea came to us during development. Battles would get monotonous if there were only strong and weak Pokémon, so by affixing types to the Pokémon we were able to give the fighting more [...]
Posted at 12:00 PM on Sunday November 6th, 2011
What was your first impression when you heard about the idea of Pokémon from planner Satoshi Tajiri? Sugimori: Pokémon is an idea that was inspired by the Game Boy’s hardware. Tajiri said “Wouldn’t it be interesting if we could use the Game Boy link cables, up till now only used by players to compete against [...]
