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

Throughout the Zelda series I've always tried to make players feel like they are in a kind of miniature garden. So, this time also, my challenge was how to make people feel comfortable and sometimes very scared at the same time. That is the big challenge.

If it turns out that Mario doesn't really fit into the type of game I want, I wouldn't mind using Zelda as the basis of the new game.

If we end up creating a gameplay structure where it makes sense for, whether it's a female to go rescue a male or a gay man to rescue a lesbian woman or a lesbian woman to rescue a gay man, we might take that approach.

I feel more reassured with physical media. Entertainment is something that will not just become digital.

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

Who knows how Mario will look in the future. Maybe he'll wear metallic clothes!