While talking at Nintendo’s E3 roundtable last week. Head designer and all-round super-human, Shigeru Miyamoto had some interesting tidbits abouyt two of Nintendo’s most saught after games, the new Zelda for Wii and Super Mario Galaxy 2.
It is possible that the new Zelda could be a Wii MotionPlus compatible only game, like Ubisoft’s Red Steel 2.
“The goal at this point is that we would make Wii MotionPlus required in order to play Zelda. The bigger hurdle for us is not really whether people have a Wii MotionPlus or don’t have it, it’s whether or not the experience is one where people will think they want to have a Wii Motion Plus in order to experience it. There may be a group of people out there who look at people playing motion control games and have a hesitancy to try to play those because they’re worried that they might not look so cool, swinging a Wii remote around. But in watching people play New Super Mario Bros. Wii, even though it’s just a simple shaking motion, I’m watching people play [it] with a big grin on their face. So I’m hoping that we might be able to create a similar-feeling experience for Zelda.”
As far as Super Mario Galaxy 2 is concerned, Miyamoto believes that Mario games do not really need much of a story and the sequel will have less than the first. That’s good news to us as we thought the Rosalina story from the first Galaxy was a bit, erm… pointless.
“I’d like to go with as little story as possible. I’ve always felt that the Mario games themselves aren’t particularly suited to having a very heavy story…I just feel that the Mario games are something that should be a much more bright and active experience. With the Mario games, you don’t need to have such a complicated setting where you have these particular characters with complicated backstories that can weigh down the bright and fun feel of the game…Mr. Koizumi is the type of person who, whenever we’re working on a new Mario game, he always wants to bring more story elements into it, as he did with Super Mario Galaxy. But in talking with him this time, he agrees and feels that with Galaxy 2, there won’t be a need for as deep of a story. I think you did see a person carved out of a tree stump in the trailer. That person has a bit of a story.”
Thanks Nintendoeverything via Wired
