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Shikata & Oiwa on Tri Force Heroes outfit ideas that didn't make it out of planning, 2015.

Source: Nintendo Miiverse Channel

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PEOPLE: - Hiromasa Shikata. Director of Tri Force Heroes. - Mikiharu Ōiwa. Tri Force Heroes Boss Planning Lead & VFX Artist. QUOTE: Shikata: There weren't any outfits [for Tri Force Heroes] that we created but ended up cutting from the game, but we did abandon a few ideas in the planning phase. Let's see... We thought about creating a ‘Stinky Costume’ which would keep enemies at bay, or a ‘Kansai Outfit’ which would put the situation reports into the Kansai dialect of Japanese. Oiwa: We also considered ‘Emperor's New Clothes’, which would make you look naked to other players, and a "Handsome Outfit" that made you look really cool in photos.
June 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Shikata & Oiwa on the difficulty of getting Princess Styla's curse outfit right, 2015.

Via Nintendo Miiverse Channel.

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PEOPLE: - Hiromasa Shikata. Director of Tri Force Heroes. - Mikiharu Ōiwa. Boss Planning Lead & VFX Artist for Tri Force Heroes. QUOTE: "Q: Which costume was the hardest to create [for Tri Force Heroes]? Shikata: I think we had more trouble than we expected with the black tights that Princess Styla wears for most of the game. They were a major headache! … We asked the artists to draw something that would make players take pity on her and want to help, and this is the sort of thing they came up with. Oiwa: But some people thought that it actually looked cute and didn't seem like much of a curse, so we had to go back to the drawing board. We tried all sorts of styles for the tights … Shikata: Well, it was meant to be a curse, so we thought that anything even remotely stylish—like flowers or crosses—was out of the question."
March 3, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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Shikata & Oiwa on how Grezzo & Nintendo split the work on Tri Force Heroes, 2015.

Source: Nintendo Miiverse Channel

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PEOPLE: - Hiromasa Shikata. Director of Tri Force Heroes. - Mikiharu Ōiwa. Boss Planning Lead & VFX artist for Tri Force Heroes. QUOTE: "Q: Could you tell us a bit more about the cooperation between GREZZO and Nintendo [while making Tri Force Heroes]? Shikata: Well, roughly speaking, GREZZO did most of the work on making the levels, creating enemies, dealing with the user interface and so on, while Nintendo took care of programming the main game systems and laying out the level concepts. Does that sound about right? Oiwa: The way I recall it, it was the first time creating levels for quite a few of our staff, so some Nintendo people came to Shibuya and we agreed on how we wanted the levels to go and things like that. Later we got a lot more free rein, and, well, it was certainly a learning experience!"
June 25, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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Aonuma & Ōiwa on why they changed the boss battles in Majora's Mask 3D, 2015.

Source: Iwata Asks

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PEOPLE: - Mikiharu Ōiwa. Director of Majora’s Mask 3D. - Eiji Aonuma, age 51. Co-director of Majora’s Mask, Producer of Majora’s Mask 3D. QUOTE: "Ōiwa: Aonuma-san said that he wanted to change all of the boss battles [for Majora’s Mask 3D]. Aonuma: … All of the boss battles are weird. All of them. When you first face a boss, it is natural to start looking for its weakness so you can figure out where to attack it. However, in the Nintendo 64 version, you couldn't see the weaknesses at all. … Players won by randomly attacking the boss, without really figuring out what was its weakness. Ōiwa: … We reconstructed the battles by focusing on making the objective easier to understand, ensuring that there is the ‘a-ha’ moment for the players, and the strategic elements that are needed to take them down wherever possible."
May 21, 2024 at 6:04 PM
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Aonuma & Ōiwa on Aonuma’s frequent apologies for Majora's Mask, 2015.

Source: Iwata Asks

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PEOPLE: - Eiji Aonuma, age 51. Co-Director of Majora’s Mask, Producer of Majora’s Mask 3D. - Mikiharu Ōiwa. Director of Majora’s Mask 3D. QUOTE: "Aonuma: [For Majora’s Mask 3D] I wrote a bunch of comments on where I thought things weren't good [in the original]. Like, ‘I'm sorry that this comes from the one that made it this way, but...’ Ōiwa: That was on the top of every list. Aonuma: And ‘At the time, I think there was something wrong with me...’ Ōiwa: He said something similar every time we had a meeting! [laughs] Aonuma: Every time a ‘what in the world’ came up, I always apologized and made excuses on why I did what I did at the time."
August 31, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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Shikata & Oiwa on Tri Force Heroes outfit ideas that didn't make it out of planning, 2015.

Source: Nintendo Miiverse Channel

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www.notion.so/fa02c7e93267...
PEOPLE: - Hiromasa Shikata. Director of Tri Force Heroes. - Mikiharu Ōiwa. Tri Force Heroes Boss Planning Lead & VFX Artist. QUOTE: "Shikata: There weren't any outfits [for Tri Force Heroes] that we created but ended up cutting from the game, but we did abandon a few ideas in the planning phase. Let's see... We thought about creating a ‘Stinky Costume’ which would keep enemies at bay, or a ‘Kansai Outfit’ which would put the situation reports into the Kansai dialect of Japanese. Oiwa: We also considered ‘Emperor's New Clothes’, which would make you look naked to other players, and a "Handsome Outfit" that made you look really cool in photos."
August 24, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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Shikata & Oiwa on the difficulty of getting Princess Styla's curse outfit right.

Via Nintendo Miiverse Channel, 2015.

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www.notion.so/fa02c7e93267...
PEOPLE: - Hiromasa Shikata. Director of Tri Force Heroes. - Mikiharu Ōiwa. Boss Planning Lead & VFX Artist for Tri Force Heroes. QUOTE: "Q: Which costume was the hardest to create [for Tri Force Heroes]? Shikata: I think we had more trouble than we expected with the black tights that Princess Styla wears for most of the game. They were a major headache! … We asked the artists to draw something that would make players take pity on her and want to help, and this is the sort of thing they came up with. Oiwa: But some people thought that it actually looked cute and didn't seem like much of a curse, so we had to go back to the drawing board. We tried all sorts of styles for the tights … Shikata: Well, it was meant to be a curse, so we thought that anything even remotely stylish—like flowers or crosses—was out of the question."
November 27, 2023 at 5:20 PM
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Majora's Mask 3D devs on adding the C-stick camera control to the remake, 2015.

Source: Iwata Asks

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Majora's Mask 3D devs on adding the C-stick camera control to the remake, 2015. Source: Iwata Asks #Zelda #MajorasMask3DQuote #ŌiwaQuote,#SanoQuote,#AonumaQuote https://www.notion.so/aaab9d927dee468680bb01ba0da3812f
July 29, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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Ōiwa and Yamamura on the challenges of adding c-stick camera control to Majora's Mask 3D, 2015.

Source: Iwata Asks

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PEOPLE: - Satoru Iwata, age 55. President of Nintendo. - Mikiharu Ōiwa. Director of Majora’s Mask 3D. - Tomohiro Yamamura. Majora’s Mask 3D Project Coordinator. QUOTE: "Iwata: But wasn't it hard to add the camera rotation feature [to Majora’s Mask 3D] near the end of the development process? Ōiwa: It was. After all, Majora's Mask has many types of programming that determines the camera controls. Yamamura: There are various types of camera programs that adjust to match different scenes like climbing ladders and flying as Deku Link. … Above that, we needed to consider Link's transformations. The default Link and Goron Link are different heights, so the height of the cameras are different, too. Ōiwa: And by being able to moving the camera around freely, you're now able to see stuff that you weren't supposed to see..."
May 28, 2024 at 4:11 PM
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Oiwa on his most painful moment in Tri Force Heroes' development.

Via Nintendo Miiverse Channel, 2015.

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PEOPLE: - Mikiharu Oiwa, Boss Planning Lead & VFX Artist for Tri Force Heroes. - Hiromasa Shikata, Director of Tri Force Heroes. QUOTE: Oiwa: The closest I came to ‘painful’ was when I announced the names I'd come up with [for the bosses in Tri Force Heroes]. Though I suppose it wasn't painful so much as it was painfully embarrassing... … That's the one, the mid-boss of The Dunes. He's like the king of the Vultures, but he's so big that he can't really fly, so I tried to make a pun that combined ‘can't fly’ and ‘vulture’. When I brought up the name in a meeting, the reactions around the table were pretty much just ‘What?’ - I don't think I'll forget that moment as long as I live. Shikata: If someone ever asks me to repeat myself in that sort of context, I'll probably be so embarrassed that I'll quit my job on the spot.
November 12, 2023 at 12:15 AM