Nintendo, Next Level discuss why Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon wouldn't work on smartphones
Coming from a Kotaku interview...
"Actually, I really think that the feeling and the core of the game is only possible because it's on this particular hardware, the 3DS. And it is really hard to imagine it running on anything else." - supervisor Yoshihito Ikebata
"For me, I would add that Luigi's an expressive personality. We spent a lot of time on the presentation and showing a lot of his face. Having your fingers on top of him—like you would have to do on a smartphone—would occlude some of that character. It's nice to have buttons basically. It also might be hard to do a fishing mechanic with siding and tapping on a touch screen rather than having a circle pad and shoulder buttons." - Bryce Holliday of Next Level Games
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"Actually, I really think that the feeling and the core of the game is only possible because it's on this particular hardware, the 3DS. And it is really hard to imagine it running on anything else." - supervisor Yoshihito Ikebata
"For me, I would add that Luigi's an expressive personality. We spent a lot of time on the presentation and showing a lot of his face. Having your fingers on top of him—like you would have to do on a smartphone—would occlude some of that character. It's nice to have buttons basically. It also might be hard to do a fishing mechanic with siding and tapping on a touch screen rather than having a circle pad and shoulder buttons." - Bryce Holliday of Next Level Games
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