Nintendo’s strategic RPG series Fire Emblem has many fans around the world, and one of them is the president of Nintendo, Shuntaro Furukawa. The news was revealed on an episode of the Kit and Krysta Podcast where Krysta Yang described her story of meeting the current president of Nintendo and discovering his enduring love for the long-running Fire Emblem franchise. Here’s what Krysta Yang had to say:
“The other thing about Mr. Furukawa that’s really fun is that, you know, he came to our office when he became the global president to like, to introduce himself, to meet him, and I like how, yeah, that it was like seeing his personality for the first time and getting to know who he is as a person. At the time he was telling us how he was a huge fan of Fire Emblem and he was like playing Fire Emblem and he said, “I’m a huge fan, I was playing Fire Emblem, but then I got to the end of Fire Emblem and I was like, logouts are lined up, and it got to the very end and it was like, Executive Producer: Furukawa” like him, right, and he said like “it was a hard cold reality that I had to go back to work”.
