Tetsuya Nomura in Iwata Asks!

[Oracle Spockanort]

Iwata Asks - Tetsuya Nomura

(sooo much mooooon)

Andriasang made a summary

This was actually the first time Iwata and Nomura met. Iwata admited that he'd wanted to meet Nomura from some time back.

The interview began with some talk about Theatrhythm Final Fantasy. Regarding the game's demos, Nomura said that they decided to release these after seeing the strong reaction to the game at game events. Following such events, people posted on blogs and Twitter that they'd lined up multiple times. The staff realized that the impression seemed to get better after playing, prompting the decision to release the demos.

Have you ever lined up in a line to play a Square Enix game at an event. Nomura may be watching you. Nomura said that the staff watches people's reactions as they view the trailers that are shown to those in line. They're able to see what areas cause reactions.

Moving on to Kingdom Hearts, Iwata first asked about the Kingdom Hearts series in general. The original PlayStation 2 title, released in March 2002, was Nomura's first game as director, Iwata noted (for the record, Iwata managed to discuss the first KH without mentioning PlayStation 2).

We've all heard the story that Kingdom Hearts came to be due to Disney and Square being in the same building at the time. Nomura revealed to Iwata the actual starting point for a collaboration between Disney and Square.

One day, producer Shinji Hashimoto and Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi were conversing. Nomura had been called over for something else and ended up joining in on the conversation just as the two were discussing Disney, saying something to the effect of "Mickey is nice, but he can't be used." Nomura jumped in and said that he'd like to work on whatever it was they were talking about.

Nomura admitted that at the time he didn't really have a desire to work on a Micky game. The reason for his interest can actually be attributed to a Nintendo game, Mario 64. This game came out around the time Nomura was working on Final Fantasy VII, and it shocked Nomura greatly. He spoke to his staff about making a game like that, but was told that Mario is a character who's known throughout the world, and it would be impossible to do the same thing by making a new character. The same person said to Nomura that unless it's a Disney-level character, it would be impossible. This stuck in his mind as he volunteered to work on the project Sakaguchi and Hashimoto were discussing.

 

[sub6snoopy]

Would it be possible for someone to post the translation? Google does a crappy job at translating.

 

[kupo1121]

Can I just say that Nomura looks like such a bad*** just sittin' there across from Iwata.

P.S. According to Google Translate:

"Iwata
, As the start of the story a little
"Shiatorizumu" (※ one) I'd like to ask you about, the other day while in the producer acid (Between) (※ two) and have heard the story and to see you , says the " (mentor) is "I'm Mr. Nomura Mentor is not felt."

Yes, yes, I totally understand what it means.

 

[Oracle Spockanort]

We're currently getting somebody to translate. Don't get your panties in a bunch xD

 

[kupo1121]

We're currently getting somebody to translate. Don't get your panties in a bunch xD

jkjkjk I really wanted to post that.

 

[sub6snoopy]

We're currently getting somebody to translate. Don't get your panties in a bunch xD

Thank you very much. Tell them thank you and that they are awesome.

 

[Shamdeo]

Can I just say that Nomura looks like such a bad*** just sittin' there across from Iwata.

P.S. According to Google Translate:

"Iwata
, As the start of the story a little
"Shiatorizumu" (※ one) I'd like to ask you about, the other day while in the producer acid (Between) (※ two) and have heard the story and to see you , says the " (mentor) is "I'm Mr. Nomura Mentor is not felt."

Yes, yes, I totally understand what it means.

He's talking about the producer of Theathrythm -- Ichiro Hazama. He looks up to Nomura as a mentor.

There was a previous iteration of Iwata asks where Hazama was asked about Nomura.

 

[Keyblade0]

Thank you very much. Tell them thank you and that they are awesome.

Yes. That person or people are awesome.

Thank you very much! ^_^

 

[Roro]

Ugh google does do a crappy job at translating, it hurts just to read the jumbled up mess it produces, but yea tell whoever's translating thank you! I'm curious to what was said in the interview

 

[destiny seeker]

Very nice and interesting. I can't believe that this is the first time they have ever met. Anyways it's really cool to see two very big people in the gameing injustry talking together.

 

[Gexus]

He sure likes to laugh...

 

[rokudamia2]

So nomura wanted to make Epic Mickey before Epic Mickey? Interesting.

 

[Reagan Rayden]

In that mesh of google's translation I saw the words Kingdom Hearts followed shortly by Super Smash Bros Brawl.

Extreme Hype Mode activated.

 

[kupo1121]

In that mesh of google's translation I saw the words Kingdom Hearts followed shortly by Super Smash Bros Brawl.

Extreme Hype Mode activated.

You can't do this people! If there isn't something about this in the translation I'm about to pull a hernia all up in these forums!!!

 

[Straythe]

So nomura wanted to make Epic Mickey before Epic Mickey? Interesting.

He didn't want Mickey lmao, just his fame.

He wanted HIS character with lots of light spots on .