More details of Sakurai’s last interview with Famitsu thanks to Siliconera. On this occasion, we discover how Sakurai valued including special aerial attacks to the game during its development, an idea that he ended up discarding in order not to divide the competitive game too much from casual in the title: During the initial planning ...
An interesting message comes back to us related to one of the most outstanding games in the Nintendo Switch catalog. We are talking in this case of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. In the tweet that we leave you below, we can see what its director is doing now that the title has already received all ...
Sakurai yesterday caught our attention when he shared an image of himself riding a horse, and now he’s got social media’s attention again, this time for purchasing an Xbox! Yes, that’s right – the director of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has finally got his hands on Microsoft’s latest and most powerful console, the Xbox Series ...
Image: @Sora_Sakurai We still find it hard to believe, but after multiple years, the development of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has finally wrapped up. While there’ll still likely be patches, the fighter DLC for the all-star brawler is now officially complete. The game’s director Masahiro Sakurai last month mentioned how he no longer had to ...
Masahiro Sakurai’s final Weekly Famitsu column has leaked online and within it he is asked whether he would like to return to the Smash Bros franchise if a new entry in the long-running series is announced and green-lit by Nintendo. Mr. Sakurai said in the column that at this point in time he hasn’t actually ...
Has finally come out the latest installment of Famitsu with great coverage to the race of Masahiro Sakurai, and in it, there is a most interesting interview in which the creative has given light to many topics of great importance, such as the future of Super Smash Bros. now that Ultimate has finished its development. ...
Image: via Nintendo Super Smash Bros. Ultimate might be the greatest crossover video game of all time, but it’s been far from easy for the game’s director Masahiro Sakurai over the years. Apart from health issues and struggles when adding certain fighters – whenever he appeared on a show, did an interview, or posted something ...
Masahiro Sakurai doesn’t seem keen on being misquoted, not even for an online joke.Screenshot: Haradas Bar / YouTube Game developer Masahiro Sakurai, the man behind it Kirby and Smash bros.He may be an industry legend, but that doesn’t mean he’s happy to be meme fodder. During the last Harada’s bar Consequence, Tekken Designer Katsuhiro Harada ...
Image: Harada’s Bar The first part of the Harada’s Bar episode featuring Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai has been uploaded. A lot of focus was on Sakurai as a person, rather than his work. In one section of his chat with Katsuhiro Harada (also known as the director of Tekken), Sakurai addressed the memes on ...
Image: Nintendo / Nintendo Life Update [Thu 12th Aug, 2021 05:45 BST]: Following on from our original story, Harada has now confirmed Sakurai will be appearing on his YouTube channel Harada’s Bar – in a “special talk”. Harada teases it as one of the most exciting videos yet… Original story [Sun 8th Aug, 2021 08:00 ...
