#iwamotoquote

PEOPLE:

Daiki Iwamoto, age 40. Director of Phantom Hourglass & Spirit Tracks.

QUOTE: "Iwamoto: If we'd concentrated too hard on making [Spirit Tracks] a sequel [to Phantom Hourglass and The Wind Waker], people who hadn't played the previous games wouldn't understand this one. We were careful to pay close attention to the parts that would pull people into the story even if they weren't familiar with the previous game.

PEOPLE:

Eiji Aonuma, age 46. Producer of Spirit Tracks.

Daiki Iwamoto, age 40. Director of Spirit Tracks.

QUOTE: Aonuma: “Let's make it so that you can lay the tracks yourself.” I brought it up, and we started [Spirit Tracks] from that experiment. …

Iwamoto: We thought it would be a lot of fun to lay the tracks any way you liked, to be able to travel anywhere at will. … But the problem is that, even if people can lay the tracks anywhere they like, they won't know where to lay them. Then, to make the story work, there are places where you absolutely mustn't go, and other places where you really can't be at certain points in time. …