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

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.

Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n' roll.

This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.

I try not so much to create new characters and worlds but to create new game-play experiences.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

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.