A number of insightful interviews have taken place with Super Mario Wonder director, Shiro Mouri ,and Super Mario Wonder producer, Takashi Tezuka. One of the things that seems notable is that the legendary Shigeru Miyamoto took a back seat on the ambitious project and let the Super Mario Wonder development team’s creative juices flow. Speaking to IGN, Mr. Mouri and Mr. Tezuka explained that “With Wonder in particular, it wasn’t like Mr. Miyamoto was in our hip pocket during this whole time whispering in our ears or anything like that.” He went on to say that “Sometimes he would come by where we are working and look at things and give some opinions. He would generally observe things and make comments here and there, and even things that didn’t seem like they were big comments – I have worked with Mr. Miyamoto for a long time and really understand him, so I was able to get what he was implying or getting to and we would have conversations around those sorts of topics.” Super Mario Wonder will release on 20th October on Switch.
With Mario Wonder Mr. Miyamoto wasn’t in “our hip pocket during this whole time whispering in our ears”
Where is the transparent banner artwork for this article from? Looks so cool
On Nintendo of Europe’s site 😊 https://fs-prod-cdn.nintendo-europe.com/media/images/08_content_images/games_6/nintendo_switch_7/nswitch_supermariobroswonder/SuperMarioBrosWonder_Gang_img.png
Thank you! Is such great artwork!
This looks really really fun!!! I wonder if this will outsell Odyssey?
I never seen a 2D Mario game like this.
Yes you have seen a 2D Mario game like this, it was called Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s island
Good. He unfortunately won’t be alive forever, so he won’t be able to help one day, anymore. (The last 2 weeks, give or take a day, has reminded me of that.)
I’m wondering if they’re preparing for his retirement in the near future… He’s 70, after all, so it wouldn’t be a surprise.