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@sol-tree7/31/2023, 12:27 PM

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Keeg @armormodekeeg7/31/2023, 1:06 AM

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

GSK @gosokkyu7/31/2023, 4:51 AM

I would be sadder if I didn't know he's been getting royalties from Smash sales since Brawl

surasshu @surasshu7/31/2023, 5:12 AM

all his freaky little games are so good, freakin METEOS man, one of the best puzzle games ever made!!!

GSK @gosokkyu7/31/2023, 5:21 AM

it's a good one, and one I wish would come back in some modern form... that said, Mizuguchi & co. made several games without Sakurai and they're all quite aimless, so I don't know that I'd even trust them to bring it back

also relevant to the current discussion: one of the comments on Sakurai's old semi-secret Meteos dev blog: "hiring Sakurai to make a vs. puzzle game is like buying a Ferrari to drive to the corner store"

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2WaterGuns @2WaterGuns7/31/2023, 4:13 AM

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.

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Keeg @armormodekeeg7/31/2023, 8:49 PM

oh that's really funny actually. get the bag man. but yeah no it's not because of worries about his own creative fulfillment or anything I have that opinion for entirely selfish reasons of wanting to play more games that I like LOL