The publisher's president dishes on the Harvest Moon series, King's Story, and more. http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=15040 Marvelous Interactive President Yasuhiro Wada was there when the first Harvest Moon came out for the SNES in 1996. Almost 20 games later, RPGFan interviews Mr. Wada to probe all of that perspective and find out what is next for his company.
First RPGFan asks about the upcoming Harvest Moon: Shining Sun and Friends for the Nintendo DS. Wada admits that the game "is pretty much complete" and undergoing debugging and fine-tuning before its commercial release in Japan. The previous Harvest Moon for Nintendo's handheld, Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness, has been out in Japan since February 2007 and has yet to see an American release.
The interview also discusses King Story, a Wii game which has combined the talents of developers Cing and Town Factory that Marvelous Interactive will publish. Wada doesn't disclose much about the game, but tries to describe the simulation's gameplay as a "king's distressful decision." He explains that, "the people who have to spend their daily lives possessing various ways of life: to bring in those people to fight, that's the leader's distressful decision."
On the topic of next-generation Wii development, Wada believes that "it is important to create games which are not enslaved to the controller." Yet he acknowledges that the Wii Remote has created "a new style of playing," and says that even though Nintendo's console is considered less technologically advanced than its competitors, "I personally believe there are still a lot of things we can do with the Wii."
Finally, RPGFan asks Wada what games he has currently been playing, and he confesses that he's finally beaten The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess after playing for more than 100 hours. He's also been playing Super Mario Galaxy, which he finds "too ordinary," but which he's committed to playing because "Mario and Zelda are bibles of game design."
For more on the Harvest Moon series and Marvelous Interactive, be sure to check out RPGFan's entire interview.
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