Miyamoto talks about what makes Luigi's Mansion 2, Pikmin 3 unqiue
This comes once again from the GameSpot interview...
GameSpot: Do you think Nintendo is putting its best foot forward, creatively, with Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon and Pikmin 3? What aspects of those games can you point to and call "uniquely Nintendo."
Miyamoto: Well, of course, when it comes to what Nintendo does, we create both hardware and software and so the software uniqueness in particular tends to rely on the uniqueness of the hardware. So with Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, one thing that's particularly unique about that game is the way that it relies on the bottom screen--the touchscreen--for the map. And the ability to play with that map and how you use it to explore the mansion adds a lot to the uniqueness to the game, compared to the previous version. In the case of Pikmin 3, we've taken an approach with that game where we really want to take what made the original Pikmin game unique and really simply go deeper with that experience.
And so what we've done is by taking advantage of the GamePad--the second screen there--and the HD graphics that are capable with Wii U and the higher processor--we've really been able to take that original Pikmin experience and do something that is much deeper and more fleshed out this time around. I think the other advantage that we have is the attention that we pay to interface. For example, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, that's a game that uses really almost all of the buttons on the 3DS.
But the way that we introduce that to people; you start off with just a couple of actions and gradually you learn the different actions of the game over the course of the game. By the end of the game, you feel like you've gotten very good and you're then using all these different actions to battle the ghosts and solve the puzzles. And so it adds a great deal of depth and growth for the player through that experience. Similarly, with Pikmin 3, really where we've put the energy is on improving that interface for the player. By taking advantage of the gyro functionality, we feel that we've managed to give the player a much easier route to achieving the things they want to achieve in the game through that control interfaces and so what that does is it really lets them get in a take advantage of the strategic elements of that game.
GameSpot: Do you think Nintendo is putting its best foot forward, creatively, with Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon and Pikmin 3? What aspects of those games can you point to and call "uniquely Nintendo."
Miyamoto: Well, of course, when it comes to what Nintendo does, we create both hardware and software and so the software uniqueness in particular tends to rely on the uniqueness of the hardware. So with Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, one thing that's particularly unique about that game is the way that it relies on the bottom screen--the touchscreen--for the map. And the ability to play with that map and how you use it to explore the mansion adds a lot to the uniqueness to the game, compared to the previous version. In the case of Pikmin 3, we've taken an approach with that game where we really want to take what made the original Pikmin game unique and really simply go deeper with that experience.
And so what we've done is by taking advantage of the GamePad--the second screen there--and the HD graphics that are capable with Wii U and the higher processor--we've really been able to take that original Pikmin experience and do something that is much deeper and more fleshed out this time around. I think the other advantage that we have is the attention that we pay to interface. For example, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, that's a game that uses really almost all of the buttons on the 3DS.
But the way that we introduce that to people; you start off with just a couple of actions and gradually you learn the different actions of the game over the course of the game. By the end of the game, you feel like you've gotten very good and you're then using all these different actions to battle the ghosts and solve the puzzles. And so it adds a great deal of depth and growth for the player through that experience. Similarly, with Pikmin 3, really where we've put the energy is on improving that interface for the player. By taking advantage of the gyro functionality, we feel that we've managed to give the player a much easier route to achieving the things they want to achieve in the game through that control interfaces and so what that does is it really lets them get in a take advantage of the strategic elements of that game.
