A few more Smash Bros. tidbits from Sakurai – Smash Run length, music, tips, daily screenshot

We’ve translated a few, final tidbits about Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS from director Masahiro Sakurai’s latest Famitsu column. These excerpts cover the Smash Run time, music, tips, and how Sakurai goes about handling the “pic of the day”.

As usual, you can find all of the responses below!

Please tell us why Smash Run is set to 5 minutes.

Isn’t 4 minutes too short and 6 minutes too long? Kid Icarus: Uprising’s aerial fights were about 5 minutes, right? In Smash Run, because song use fits perfectly and feels good, I decided to use two songs tracks as a time length.

The approach for music is incredible. Why go to such lengths?

My games always have a sound test. Game music which creates a scene in a short loop and brings back many things, including the situation when it played, is really likeable, right?

Especially in a project like Smash Bros. where it is possible to bring everything together, that chance must be used to the fullest!! The required coordination for rights is tenfold compared to a normal software so that multiplies the efforts.

How many tips there are in total?

The truth is that is that the total can be updated. It is possible to add them without any notification, as this is a game with content that cannot exactly be “completed.” Though, if you add more tips, then there is translation work to be done, and with every country in mind, this is more difficult than it seems at first.

Updating the website with “pic of the day”, in what way you do the updates?

First I decide what theme to show, photographed at the desk, come up with a manuscript, and then I have to ask someone at Nintendo to update. Since I’m usually very busy, when I get the chance, I finish several posts in advance. Also, because of all the translations, I have to have the posts ready 10 days in advance.

Over the past few days, we’ve posted other tidbits from Sakurai’s column. Here’s a quick look at some of the other posts:

Sakurai on why Smash Bros. 3DS came out before the Wii U version, changes in Final Smashes, stage tidbit
Sakurai says an announcement about Smash Bros. Wii U is on the way