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On this week’s episode: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Black Friday Sales Guide, Super Mario 3D Land Launch Event and Mario Kart 7.

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Nintendo of America has added a new 26-page discussion to the Iwata Asks website. Rather than focusing on a particular game, this feature is much more general. Topics include meetings, development, Shigeru Miyamoto as a boss, and a whole lot more.

Satoru Iwata, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Shigesato Itoi were the three lone participants who were involved in the discussion. You can read up on the latest Iwata Asks here.

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Nintendo continues to celebrate Zelda’s 25th anniversary with the following video. The Big N made a Hyrulian inspired room in honor the series’ big birthday. I sort of wish my room looked like this!

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Last week, Famitsu published an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto following the end of Zelda: Skyward Sword’s development. The latest issue contains a discussion with producer Eiji Aonuma and director Hidemaro Fujibayashi.

The two divulged some interesting information. Aonuma, for instance, told the magazine that Fi was created before the staff decided to support MotionPlus. However, when she was shown at E3 2009 for the first time, “you used her in a completely different way gamewise than you do now.”

Aonuma also said that he hopes to get the next Zelda title out more quickly. Skyward Sword took five years to develop.

Fujibayashi shared a few particular noteworthy comments regarding the game’s structure. Originally, the staff did not plan on limiting the world to three main sections. Eventually they came to the conclusion that “the world was too big and a little too thinly spread out”, leading to what players are experiencing now. Some content was cut (Fujibayashi wouldn’t elaborate on this), though “much of it wound up getting used in the game regardless in the end.”

Another interesting tidbit relates to the Silent Realm. According to Aonuma, the team considered making the world into a completely separate dungeon, but decided against this because “this type of gameplay works best when you’re already intimately familiar with the field it’s taking place in”.

For all of the responses from Aonuma and Fujibayashi, head past the break.

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Two new rewards have been added to the Japanese Club Nintendo website. Members can now use their coins to purchase a Super Mushroom Tote Bag or The Legend of Zelda Poster Set.

The tote bag will set you back 350 points. It holds up to 8 kilograms of “stuff”.

The poster set, meanwhile, will provide you with three B2-sized posters for 250 coins. It comes with a general 25th anniversary poster as well as two posters for Skyward Sword.

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This video has been up on the Nintendo Video service for about a week. Those without a 3DS can watch the “Great Fairy’s Fountain” recording now as well.