Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good.

There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story.

Of course, when it comes to Japanese role-playing games, in any role-playing game in Japan you're supposed to collect a huge number of items, and magic, and you've got to actually combine different items together to make something really different.

Anything that is impractical can be play. It's doing something other than what is necessary to continue living as an animal.

I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.

To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.

My days all follow much the same pattern. They are structured and typical.