Over the years, Nintendo has grown its catalog of games to include a wide variety of genres. From kart racing to puzzlers, the industry's longest standing hardware and software developer has just about all of the bases covered. However, there is one area that, when compared to other publishers, they come up a little short in - third person action adventure games.
Sure, there are the 3D Mario games ("64," "Sunshine," and the "Galaxy") that keep them covered to a certain extent, but those are really platformers at heart. Their best example is "Luigi's Mansion" on the GameCube, a game where Luigi hunted down ghosts and sucked them up with a vacuum cleaner. It's no "Gears of War," but it's also not not. So, what happens when you give this unique franchise to a team of internal and external developers with a range of expertise to create its first sequel? Well, "Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon," is the easy answer, but I wanted to dig a little deeper.
Last week during a video conference interview that spanned four different cities, I posed the question, "What was it like to make a third person action-adventure game, especially one staring Luigi?" to the game's Supervisor, Mr. Yoshihito Ikebata, as well as the Director of Next Level Games, Bryce Holliday. They both had different takes on the situation given their unique backgrounds.
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