Mario RPGs And Director Chihiro Fujioka’s Life In Games - MinnMax Interview
742MinnMax's Ben Hanson interviews director Chihiro Fujioka about his amazing career in games, where he directed Super Mario RPG on the Super Nintendo, wrote Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, directed Tomato Adventure on the GameBoy Advance, and was a pivotal figure with the Mario and Luigi RPG series from AlphaDream. They talk about working with Shigeru Miyamoto, Geno in Super Smash Bros, and what it's like to be in band with Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu. You can unlock the podcast version of this interview by supporting MinnMax on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/minnmax
If you speak Japanese and want to hear the raw audio of the interview, check out this unlisted version here - https://youtu.be/T4N-cENBYXA
To learn more about the under-appreciated Tomato Adventure, check out our video feature here - https://youtu.be/Gt_Mnvo9zyQ
Thanks to (Resident Evil superfan) Alex Aniel for translating our interview - https://twitter.com/cvxfreak
To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:51 - Chihiro Fujioka’s nostalgia
00:03:13 - Developing Super Mario RPG
00:10:36 - Why Fujioka wants to create Super Mario RPG 2
00:11:19 - The early days of AlphaDream
00:12:46 - Developing Tomato Adventure
00:18:09 - Geno and Super Smash Bros.
00:19:01 - Creating the Mario & Luigi series
00:24:31 - AlphaDream’s unreleased games
00:25:50 - The closer of AlphaDream
00:26:49 - Working on Fantasian with Sakaguchi
00:28:39 - Fujioka’s post-development life
00:29:07 - Playing music with Final Fantasy’s Uematsu
00:30:27 - Summarizing Fujioka’s career
00:31:42 - Fujioka plays the drums
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