always gonna be a little sad that so much of masahiro sakurai's time in game development was devoted to super smash bros because i think that man has a knack for making monstrously cracked single-player-focused action games that he ended up not getting to flex nearly enough
kirby super star and kid icarus uprising are actual masterworks of game design
It seems the consensus from him and his peers is that he's "the only one" who can do Smash, which is... I don't know, weird to hear? Not saying that he doesn't do a good job, but like, I don't expect Miyamoto to be the only one capable of making a Mario game. Feels like he could've said no at some point, or raised a successor or even a long-term team, but maybe that went out the window when he left HAL.
