#spirittracksquote

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.

Satoru Iwata, age 49. President of Nintendo.

QUOTE: Aonuma: We had to think about what to use as a mode of transportation, in place of a boat, and at that point, I remembered a certain picture book.

Iwata: A picture book?

Aonuma: …Which I brought with me today…

Iwata: This book? 'The Tracks Go On'?

PEOPLE:

Satoru Iwata, age 49. President of Nintendo from 2002-2015.

Eiji Aonuma, age 46. Director of Twilight Princess, Producer of Phantom Hourglass.

QUOTE: Iwata: Aonuma-san, you're involved with both [Twilight Princess and Phantom Hourglass]. Are there any differences in how you work on the two?

Aonuma: When I work on the Wii edition, I'm right on-site, and I often do my job from a director's perspective. On the Nintendo DS version, I do proper producer's work.

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. …

PEOPLE:

Eiji Aonuma, age 46. Producer of Phantom Hourglass & Spirit Tracks.

QUOTE: "Aonuma: On handheld devices like DS, for the grand universe of Zelda to be correctly depicted, cel-shading or toon-shading style is the most appropriate. … If we're going to apply photorealistic proportions between human characters and objects, the player character would have to be really small.