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. A translation by [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] has been provided below.}}{{NeedsTranslation}}

!style="width:40%" align="left" valign="top"|Just make it simple. Controls easy. Don’t lean on the characters. If the games themselves have rhythm and are fun that's all you need. Don’t think of it as a sequel, but as something that even people who are only aware of this title in the series can enjoy. Don’t make a hard game. I suppose that covers it all.<br><br>Also, for the very first {{tt|Rhythm Heaven|Rhythm Tengoku}} we made this habit of hiding "Produced by Tsunku♂" until the game was released, and how long were we supposed to wait with this one… We’ve had this weird habit.<br><br>Even though we should be able to march it around, "Tsunku♂ is OF COURSE producing this one too!" (laughs).

!style="width:40%" align="left" valign="top"|There’s also the "remix" songs that appear at each juncture. There are a lot that are brand new takes on existing songs, so it’s that back and forth between the game-making staff and we sound staff, a collaboration between specialists. There’s this great "back stabbing" in a way - "We made this song with one image and mind and why on earth did you make this kind of completely unexpected game with it!" that just feels wonderful. You’d think, "usually you’d let the music guide you more, no?", but seeing the game making staff uninhibitedly weave in what they wanted to do or show felt amazing.

!style="width:40%; color:#047ED7" align="left" valign="top"|The real enjoyment of these collaborative creative partnerships is seeing the appeal form from seeing expectations shattered, so much that the first word that comes to mind is "backstabbing".

!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 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 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 Karate Man had this furious guitar in a minor key, and that furiousness rocked - so while we didn’t use it with 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"|Blue Bear also shows up in the TV CM, 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.

!style="width:40%" align="left" valign="top"|Although the title has "Best" in it, there are plenty of new games as well, so even people thinking "I've never touched the Advance version!" will be able to play remixes from that game, enjoying a fresh new take, also, there’s plenty of fun to be had in cooperative multiplayer³.

!style="width:40%; color:#047ED7" align="left" valign="top"|I’d also like to stress that it’s not just a "Best of" compilation. I’d like to finish with a message from Tsunku♂ to everyone reading this.

!style="width:40%; color:#047ED7" align="left" valign="top"|I’m incredibly happy that Tsunku♂-san was so willing to take my request for an Iwata Asks as the release date for the game drew near, and that he seemed so healthy and energetic.<br><br>In closing I’d like to announce the demo for Rhythm Heaven Megamix. This demo will be available for free on the 3DS Nintendo eShop starting from the day the game is released. This is the first Rhythm Heaven title that can be played by up to four people cooperatively on portable hardware, and that cooperate multiplayer is supported in the demo as well. Rhythm Heaven in cooperative multiplayer is quite fun, so I hope that as many people as possible will enjoy both single player and multiplayer.<br><br>Thank you for reading this to the end.