Super Mario Odyssey – Nintendo Treehouse: Live @ E3 2017 (round 3, exclusive area footage)
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Yoshiaki Koizumi is hosting a Reddit AMA right now
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Update: Bumped to the top. It’s now over – we have almost everything below.
Yoshiaki Koizumi, the producer of Super Mario Odyssey, has just started a special AMA on Reddit. He’ll surely be inundated with questions, but you can nonetheless try your luck at having your question answered.
The AMA can be found here. We’ll add in any interesting responses throughout the hour-long session below.
Of all the things Mario can take control of in Odyssey, which is your favourite?
Dinosaur!
Is Koichi Hayashida involved in the development of Mario Odyssey?
Yes, he is!
How did you come up with the mechanic of Mario possessing enemies and objects?
So when we wanted to create Mario games this time around we wanted to focus on the actions Mario can do and in previous Mario games he was able to get power-ups and new abilities. But this time around when we were making many different prototypes and changed our approach that found capturing or “possessing” enemies worked well so we stuck with that.
Reggie on third-party Switch support, shifting visions, reintroducing franchises, how Skyrim happened
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Glixel has a massive interview up with Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime. We’ve included some of the excerpts below, but there’s much more here.
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Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle – Nintendo Treehouse: Live @ E3 2017 (Bowser Jr., boss fight)
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Splatoon 2 Salmon Run – Nintendo Treehouse: Live @ E3 2017
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As a small follow-up to last night’s Salmon Run report, you can actually increase the difficulty beyond 100% and go all the way up to 200%. Once you’ve taken on a successful run in this mode, 5% of additional difficulty will be available in your game.
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Miyamoto: Pikmin 4 “is progressing”
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A couple of years ago, Shigeru Miyamoto stated that Pikmin 4 was “very close to completion.” However, we’ve yet to see the game at all, and some have been concerned that Hey! Pikmin was the project he was referring to.
Eurogamer caught up with Miyamoto at E3 this week and asked for an update on Pikmin 4. There’s no need to fear, as Pikmin 4 and Hey! Pikmin are separate.
Regarding Pikmin 4, Miyamoto teased: “I’ve been told not to share anything about this from PR, but I can tell you it is progressing.” Nintendo also told the site separately, “We can confirm that Pikmin 4 is in development but that is all we can confirm at present.”
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Pokken Tournament DX Invitational – full event
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Splatoon 2 is 1080p docked, 60 FPS
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Nintendo shared a technical update about Splatoon 2 during the Treehouse Live stream today. According to one of the staffers demonstrating the game, it’ll run at 1080p when docked (720p in handheld mode). Splatoon 2 will also be 60 frames per second. When that information was brought up, Splatoon 2 producer Hisashi Nogami indicated that this is indeed correct.
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Yoshi Switch – Nintendo Treehouse: Live @ E3 2017
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Sakamoto on Metroid: Samus Returns – what’s new, no ties to Metroid Dread or Prime 4, started 2 years ago
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This information comes from Nintendo’s Yoshio Sakamoto…
“It’s the same game. … All of the fundamental design is the same … in that the basic map structure is all based off the Metroid II map. Basically what we’ve done is we’ve used this new technology that we have at our fingertips to just polish up what was already there and to improve upon it. Maybe the thing that felt so different was that it was in full color.”
On whether Samus Returns is getting the same expansion as Zero Mission…
“I believe that yes you can go ahead and look forward to some of those same experiences that you had with Zero Mission.”
On whether we’ll get an additional layer of back story like Zero Mission…
“[In] this game there’s a lot of background, there’s a lot of lore involved in this title. But it’s not like a novel or something. It incorporates the lore, but it’s not integral to the gameplay experience. It’s in the background more than in the foreground. There is definitely information for the players to get that revolves around sort of the larger storyline.”
