PEOPLE: - Kaori Miyachi. Assistant Producer for Emio – The Smiling Man. Coordinator for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. - Yoshio Sakamoto, age 65. Producer of Emio – The Smiling Man. QUOTE: Miyachi: One day during development [of Emio: The Smiling Man], I was surprised to receive several DVDs, some of which were gory or horror-movie-like. Sakamoto-san insisted that I watch them... I pleaded with him, ‘These really aren't my cup of tea,’ but he insisted, ‘Please, I need you to watch them.’ So I plucked up the courage, and they were...actually quite interesting! I learned so much from them and understood what Sakamoto-san wanted to express. Sakamoto: The pauses, use of sound, cuts, and cut transitions in the games are all influenced by what I've seen, so I wanted Miyachi-san to watch all those different works to understand where my inspiration came from.

Miyachi & Sakamoto on how they aligned with each others' creative influences for Emio, 2024.

Source: Ask the Developer

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PEOPLE: - Yosuke Hayashi, age 31. Producer & Director for Metroid: Other M. Later: Producer of the Hyrule Warriors games. - Ryuzi Kitaura. Cinematic Director for Metroid: Other M. - Yoshio Sakamoto, age 51. Producer & Director for Metroid: Other M. QUOTE: Hayashi: Well, when [Sakamoto and Kitaura] were explaining the movements on the storyboards [for Metroid: Other M], for example, there'd sometimes be a reference to an obscure old monster film that only the two of them would get. Iwata: So these references meant nothing to you, coming from a different generation? Hayashi: That's right [laughs]. They'd say things such as 'This part is just like Gyaosu'—I was none the wiser what they meant. Iwata: Ah, Gyaosu, eh? [laughs] Kitaura: It was just the two of us who understood. Iwata: Actually, I'm a member of the generation that knows about Gyaosu as well... [laughs]

Hayashi, Iwata, & Kitaura on generational knowledge, 2010.

Source: Iwata Asks

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PEOPLE: - Yoshio Sakamoto, age 58. Breath of the Wild music supervisor, Super Metroid composer. - Kenji Yamamoto, age 53. Director of Super Metroid. QUOTE: "Yamamoto: Back then [while finishing Super Metroid], we had a nap room with lots of futons lined up, and staff members took turns sleeping. Sakamoto: Sometimes we didn't know when we had last slept. Yamamoto: On Christmas night, we were—of course—working, and when Sakamoto and I had a late meal, we saw people having a good time on the TV news. We wondered why we couldn't do that too!"

Sakamoto and Yamamoto on Super Metroid crunch, 2017.

Source: Nintendo.com

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PEOPLE: - Kaori Miyachi. Assistant Producer for Emio – The Smiling Man. Coordinator for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. - Yoshio Sakamoto, age 65. Producer of Emio – The Smiling Man. QUOTE: "Miyachi: [Sakamoto] asked me to come up with a key event that would kick off the investigation [in Emio – The Smiling Man]. Q: This was again without much information? Miyachi: Here's the brief I got: ‘An older brother's well-meaning actions towards his sister incur her anger.’ That was it. I had no idea when or why this event would occur, or how the incident would begin, so I was at a complete loss. [Laughs] It was definitely a crazy demand. … Sakamoto: I had a good reason for withholding that information. I needed Miyachi-san to read the finished plot for the first time to judge whether it was interesting or not. It would've been pointless if she hadn't read it with a completely fresh mind."

Miyachi on Sakamoto's crazy demands for Emio – The Smiling Man, 2024.

Source: Ask the Developer

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