they really took some of the most complained about parts of the story and doubled down...
even shrines, there's possible ways to offer progression with some slight nonlinearity. but nah....

Absolutely, yea. I think a part of them not acknowledging the game in the west is also a part they play to not even bring it up to anyone who's not familiar with it. After all, the only way to play it in the west is through emulation

(and then it's also this non answer that's fueled speculation all these years, and we get a reminder of it all when Lucas keeps coming back in smash)

Love Moony, yea! But it's even more interesting to me how any official statements dodge the question, or like mentioned in the video, give a corporate neither "yes or no" answer

those games were landmark titles in localization, needing big script and sprite changes, which needed more communication between the Japanese and American teams for quality assurances. It wasn't common back then at all

my favorite was Reggie being asked after he retired: "Well, it's fortunately not my problem anymore"

I drew this in the Switch‘s hidden internet browser because I didn‘t wanna spend money on a drawing app lol
It didn‘t let me zoom out so I had to check and do some work on my ipad as well, here‘s the full thing

I'm just chilling...

shiiiiit, this doing numbers....

play the legend of zelda: spirit tracks.