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Koichi Hayashida, the producer of Super Mario 3D World, is featured in the video below talking about the game’s camera feature – a feature explained by Nintendo president and CEO Satoru Iwata, during the firm’s E3 Nintendo Direct presentation. Game’s out on Wii U this December.

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Super Mario 3D Land director Koichi Hayashida has said hardware-driven innovation keeps the Mario franchise fesh, and that it doesn’t need creator Shigeru Miyamoto to progress.

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GDC organizers have announced Super Mario 3D Land and Resident Evil: Revelations postmortems from Nintendo and Capcom.

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“When we show a power-up to Mr. Miyamoto, we get a bit nervous, but he usually understands our ideas.”

“Mr. Miyamoto had an inscrutable expression when we showed him the designs [for the Bee Suit and Boo Suit]; he isn’t a big fan of making Mario cute.”

Nintendo staffers Koichi Hayashida and Yoshiaki Koizumi recall their feelings on working on Mario power-ups under the guidance of creator Shigeru Miyamoto, speaking with Kotaku.