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Nintendo, Retro discuss hypothetical Metroid Wii U ideas, want to make Tingle a loved character

by rawmeatcowboy
18 June 2013
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The following info comes from a Gamesbeat interview with Michael Kelbaugh, Kensuke Tanabe and Risa Tabata.

- The ideas given are theirs and theirs alone, not an official statement from Nintendo
- ideas for Metroid on Wii U include the GamePad displaying Samus' suit HUD elements
- mini-game that plays like a Samus morphball version of pinball

“Samus obviously has a lot of features [in her space suit]. There’s a lot you can do with that thing — once she pulls her arm up and pulls out that [metal flap] and does some of this stuff [Tabata pretends to punch buttons on her forearm]. I can see mapping some of that to the GamePad. I think that would be really cool.” - Tabata

- The following comes from the translator

“I [told Tanabe], ‘What, you want to hook a GamePad on a Zapper [gun peripheral]?’ He said: ‘No, that’d be too heavy. Maybe something more streamlined. But like a Zapper-style thing with a GamePad feature on it or some device like that. I’d love to do some shooting stuff with something like that! Maybe some day.’”

- ideas for a Tingle Wii U game

“There’s no definitive plan or anything. It’s just me off the top of my head. I know how hated the character of Tingle is in the U.S. I know that people cannot stand Tingle. But to me that challenge is: Could I take this character that is so reviled in the West and just [do] a complete turnaround and make him a beloved, fun character? The idea of that really just gets me going. I know we have made a Tingle game in the past, but maybe at some point down the road.

It’s like love. It’s like romance: You meet someone and you’re like, ‘Oh god, I can’t stand that person.’ And then three weeks later, you’re madly in love — it’s that turn, that quick whip, that motivates [me] a little bit. If we we ever get a really successful Tingle game, maybe we will have like a big Tingle statue out there [points to Nintendo's E3 booth outside the room's walls].” - Tanabe

“Retro does Tingle!” - Kelbaugh

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