The Wonderful 101 has a “really hard mode”, Kamiya couldn’t beat it

The Wonderful 101 includes a number of difficulty modes, one of which was so tough that director Hideki Kamiya couldn’t complete it.

Nintendo’s Hitoshi Yamagami, producer Atsushi Inaba, and Nintendo director Shingo Matsushita shared the news in a new Iwata Asks. The three said:

Yamagami: That’s right. We’ve also prepared a really hard mode that should probably be called ‘A challenge from Kamiya.’ How hard is it? Probably only Kamiya-san and the super debuggers from Mario Club are able to beat it.

Inaba: No, Kamiya can’t do it.

Matsushita: It was so challenging, I asked Kamiya-san to help us out with the debugging process, but he said he couldn’t do it.

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