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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
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Hayashida & Mouri on the direction they received from Tezuka for Mario Wonder.

Via Ask the Developer, 2023.

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#SuperMarioBrosWonderQuote
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PEOPLE: - Koichi Hayashida. Game Designer on Super Mario Bros. Wonder - Shiro Mouri. Sub-Director of A Link Between Worlds, Director of Super Mario Bros. Wonder - Takashi Tezuka. Co-Creator of the Zelda series, Producer of Super Mario Bros. Wonder QUOTE: "Q: Did you have a clear direction of what you wanted to achieve? Hayashida: Tezuka-san gave us the task of creating a Mario game full of hidden surprises and wonders. Mouri: When I think back to the first time I played the original Super Mario Bros. game, I remember feeling that it was full of hidden surprises and wonders. Coins would come out when you hit the blocks, and your body would grow bigger with Super Mushrooms. Back then, everything was new and packed with unexpected delights. However, now … those things have somehow become ordinary. Hayashida: … What used to be wondrous back then is no longer wondrous today, neither for players nor for us developers."
October 31, 2023 at 3:53 PM
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Mouri & Hayashida on Tezuka wanting live commentary in Super Mario Bros. Wonder, 2023.

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PEOPLE: - Shiro Mouri. Sub-Director of A Link Between Worlds. Director of Super Mario Bros. Wonder. - Takashi Tezuka, age 62. Director of the first four Zelda games. Producer of Super Mario Bros. Wonder. - Koichi Hayashida, age 54. Game Designer on Super Mario Bros. Wonder. QUOTE: "Mouri: Tezuka-san also once asked, ‘Can’t we have live commentary [in Super Mario Bros. Wonder]?’ I had absolutely no clue what he meant. [Laughs] … Hayashida: We actually spent about six months seriously developing live commentary. We tried adding voices to match the player's actions. … Tezuka: I was quite a fan of it. [Laughs] Mouri: Even the team was evenly split between those in favor and those against. [Laughs] The default voice was very generic, like a newscaster, but you had the option to switch it to a Tsundere commentary. Mouri: In fact, according to our play test records, quite a few people were switching to the Tsundere commentary. [Laughs]"
January 5, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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Tezuka & Hayashida on remote work's impact on meetings for Mario Wonder, 2023.

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PEOPLE: - Takashi Tezuka, age 62. Director of the first four Zelda games. Producer of Super Mario Bros. Wonder. . - Koichi Hayashida, age 54. Game Designer on Super Mario Bros. Wonder. . QUOTE: "Tezuka: Remote work may have also had a major impact [on Super Mario Bros. Wonder]. Since meetings now took place online, we no longer had to limit the number of participants due to limited space in meeting rooms, so we made it a rule to open meetings to the entire development team so that anyone could join at any time. Hayashida: We let members join online meetings without turning on their cameras so that they could just listen in while multitasking. … Of course, there were difficulties developing a game in an unfamiliar, work-from-home environment, but we were able to take advantage of the situation and work on new approaches."
December 14, 2023 at 1:18 AM
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Tezuka & Hayashida on their confidence in finding new ideas for Mario Wonder, 2023.

Via Ask the Developer.

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PEOPLE: - Takashi Tezuka, age 62. Co-creator of the Zelda series, Producer of Super Mario Bros. Wonder. - Koichi Hayashida, age 54. Game Designer on Super Mario Bros. Wonder. QUOTE: "Tezuka: Some … were saying that Super Mario Maker had eliminated the need for another 2D Mario game. But I kept saying that the next Mario game would be completely different from Super Mario Maker, so there was no need to worry. In hindsight, those kinds of sentiments may have been what motivated me to come up with ideas for this game. Q: So you were already confident that you could create something completely fresh. Tezuka: Well, yes. Hayashida: No, no, I wasn't! (Laughs) Players have created so many different courses … that I was worried about whether we could do anything new that would go beyond that. ...But apparently, Tezuka-san thought it would be fine. [Laughs]"
December 8, 2023 at 5:17 PM