Splatoon 2 devs name their favorite games

The following interview snippet comes from the most recent issue of GamesTM magazine...

Director Yusuke Amano’s shortlist consisted of over 30 games with the Nintendo games including ‘Mother’ (“I wrote an essay in high school with the first-generation Mother strategy guide”), ‘Perfect Dark’ (“I played all night in my university days”) and ‘The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening’ (“It’s perfect”).

Producer Hisashi Nogami narrowed it down to just four games with ‘The Legend of Zelda’ (“I cleared about 30 times front to back”), ‘The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’, ‘Virtua Fighter 2’ (“I don’t know how many hundreds of hours I spent practicing multiplayer and midair combos”) and ‘Diablo’ (“For about a year and a half, I went into the dungeons once in the morning and twice at night searching for rings and swords”).

Producer Shintaro Sato chose just three games: ‘Lode Runner’ (“I preferred creating weird stages in Edit mode over clearing the provided stages. The stage that I created that I liked most was a stage that had only one enemy robot at the beginning but increased to three robots after collecting all the gold”), ‘After Burner Climax’ (“This game allowed me to stop thinking about everything and feel refreshed”) and ‘The Orange Box: Team Fortress 2’ (“I think this was the trigger for me noticing the appeal of shooter games based around completing an objective”).