Shiro Maekawa on Twitter:
Oh, again, I was made aware that our job … or rather, our goal is not producing interesting games but making the customers happy, and that interesting games exist only with methods for that purpose. It is a completely pathetic story.
Shiro Maekawa on Twitter:
Then in the end, when I made sure that I remade the tennis entirely and could play a rally game, the reputation went very well. ^^; The lesson that I got with this is that, no matter how interesting and original I make it, it will be something unnecessary if the customers do not want that enjoyment.
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The responses of the testers were extremely bad for this. “Why can’t we play rally in tennis?” It means that they were unconvinced before they would say whether it was interesting or not. As a creator, I wanted to say, “There’re other sports if I wanna play rally!”, but the fact is that the partners were unconvinced. They said that what they wanted to play in tennis is rally.
Shiro Maekawa on Twitter:
Then I tried to make it practically, and when I showed it even to the internal checking client, he turned out saying, “It’s out of the ordinary, but won’t it seem interesting?”, and I turned out presenting it to Nintendo’s play research. But….
Shiro Maekawa on Twitter:
If it is tennis, it will be a rally competition in ordinary circumstances, but badminton and table tennis were already ending up doing the rally, and here, it turned out that I would twist it a little, apply the focus to service, and make a one-match game with ace or return.
Shiro Maekawa on Twitter:
Among the 57 games, I was in charge of the production of tennis singles. Then I think the people who know this game would know that it is a collection of mini games which have cherry-picked a segment of the sports, and that means it turned out to be “What segment would I cut out for the tennis singles as well?”
Shiro Maekawa on Twitter:
I heard that foreign popularity is not good for Sonic and the Black Knight, but when I look at the user reviews on America’s Amazon, the reviews are better than Secret Rings, aren’t they? It was Black Knight > Secret Rings inside me as well, so I felt relieved just a little somehow.
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