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Hayashida on an early pitch for some courses in Super Mario World 3D, 2014.

Source: Nintendo Life

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PEOPLE: - Koichi Hayashida, age 45. Director of Super Mario 3D World, Producer of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. - Shinya Hiratake. Level Designer for Super Mario 3D World, Director of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 62. Creator of Zelda. General Producer of Super Mario 3D World and Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. QUOTE: Q: [Captain Toad began life as a Zelda project?] Hayashida: It seems like the truth has gotten a little twisted here [laughs]. When we started work on Super Mario 3D World, we created a number of tests, one of which was a stage where you look in from the outside; a little diorama stage using Mario. The thing we noticed was that if Mario could jump, the stages become pretty big so we wondered whether it would be possible to make a game with a character who can’t jump. Hiratake submitted an idea to Mr. Miyamoto … to use Link as the character. Unfortunately, this idea was stopped right at the planning stage.
December 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM