Interview:Iwata Asks in Writing - Rhythm Heaven Megamix: Difference between revisions

{{Interview|the Iwata Asks interview for ''[[Rhythm Heaven Megamix]]'', which was originally posted [https://www.nintendo.co.jp/3ds/interview/bpjj/vol1/index.html here] on June 11, 2015, along with an English translation by Matt Walker on [https://www.nintendoworldreport.com/feature/43066/iwata-asks-in-commemoration-part-3-rhythm-heaven-megamix-iwata-asks-in-writing-rhythm-heaven-megamix Nintendo World Report] on July 24, 2016.}}{{NeedsTranslation}}

!style="width:40%" align="left" valign="top"|<small>Meet and speak＝ In the past Tsunku♂ has appeared on “Iwata Asks” as the producer of the “Rhythm Heaven” series and chatted in person with Iwata-san. For more details please see [https://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/ds/rhythm-heaven/0/0/ {{tt|Iwata Asks “Rhythm Heaven Gold”|Iwata Asks: Rhythm Heaven}}] and [https://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/wii/rhythmheavenfever/0/0/ {{tt|Iwata Asks “Everyone’s Rhythm Heaven.”|Iwata Asks: Rhythm Heaven Fever}}]</small>

!style="width:40%" align="left" valign="top"|<small>Three Separate Rhythm Heavens＝ {{tt|“Rhythm Heaven”|Rhythm Tengoku}} (Released in 2006 for the Game Boy Advance), {{tt|“Rhythm Heaven Gold”|Rhythm Heaven}} (Released in 2008 for the Nintendo DS), {{tt|“Everyone’s Rhythm Heaven”|Rhythm Heaven Fever}} (2011 on the Wii).</small>

!style="width:40%" align="left" valign="top"|The same can be said of the music industry, but it’s quite difficult to compete with original compositions, so coming up with [[Karate Man (3DS)|the new {{tt|“Karateka"|Karate Man}}]] and [[Sneaky Spirits|{{tt|“White Ghost”|Sneaky Spirits}} series]] music while staying with the original theme was surprisingly difficult, but I’m also strongly attached to them.<br><br>One that comes at you full force, both as a game and sound is [[Tongue Lashing|{{tt|“Chameleon.”|Tongue Lashing}}]] It gets the adrenaline pumping. It’s like, pure fusion of sound and game.

!style="width:40%; color:#047ED7" align="left" valign="top"|{{tt|“Chameleon”|Tongue Lashing}} is in the TV commercials, so there are probably already plenty of fans that know it.

!style="width:40%" align="left" valign="top"|I asked someone I met in New York to write the lyrics for “I’m a lady now.” We had plans for a 6-year-old girl to sing a song in English intended for the whole world.<br><br>I loved the melody and lyrics of the song, {{tt|“For that big, single tear,”|Sono Hitotsubu no Ōkina Namida ni wa}} so we had a singer from Ishikawa Prefecture, Hikaru Obashi, sing it.<br><br>“Tokimeki no Story” is sentimental. As a song it feels like the evening twilight, and I selected singers that would be proper for singing a fresh song to sing it.<br><br>What Nintendo’s tastes guided me to was the song “Classmate.” It’s a song that you’ll find after you’ve sunk quite a bit of time into the game, and from the beginning I had a rather concrete image for it, that I startled myself, moved to tears at the thought of what kind of game it might become. It’s bitter-sweet, and it’s wonderful in its rawness, which I think is a perfect match.<br><br>I would love for people to listen to these songs in-game.<br><br>And then of course I think for Nintendo’s team as well, they had a passion for {{tt|“Karateka,”|Karate Man}} and we had several bouts of back and forth where the songs I wrote didn’t quite fit, and if I made a song just as instructed by Nintendo I’d rewrite it two or three times thinking, “But it doesn’t really line up with the image.”<br><br>The second proposal I wrote for {{tt|“Karateka”|Karate Man}} had this furious guitar in a minor key, and that furiousness rocked - so while we didn’t use it with {{tt|“Karateka”|Karate Man}}, which comes at the beginning, we did use it during the final battle…Anyhow, it’s the kind of game where these kinds of things came up.

!style="width:40%; color:#047ED7" align="left" valign="top"|That’s what you meant when you mentioned how it was hard to write the song for {{tt|“Karateka.”|Karate Man}}

!style="width:40%" align="left" valign="top"|As for new games, there’s this incredible sorrow with [[Blue Bear|{{tt|“Broken-Hearted Pair,”|Blue Bear}}]] where you’re surprised to see these kinds of characters in a rhythm game. It’s this kind of game with such a unique taste that it makes you want to question it like that.

!style="width:40%; color:#047ED7" align="left" valign="top"|{{tt|“Broken-Hearted Pair”|Blue Bear}} also shows up in the TV commercial, and that sorrow is evident just from watching.<br><br>Now then, I’d like to hear what you feel the appeal of this game is.