So Planet GameCube interviewed a Nintendo Localization Producer/Manager about the upcoming Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, but that interview also featured a tidbit about the Earthbound sequel. If you’re a big (and by now very disappointed) fan, I wouldn’t read the last sentence, it’s 🙁
Let’s agree with forumers that this needs more attention. At VGB we really think all 3 “Earthbound” games would be a perfect fit for the Wii’s Virtual Console download service. Cheap distribution, and the waters can be tested with the SNES game first. Make it happen Nintendo!
PGC: So Nate, for our readers at home, can you explain what it is you do at Treehouse?
Nate Bihldorff: Sure. My title is Localization Producer/Manager. The manager side of it, I manage three of our writers on whatever projects they’re working on, and the localization producer side basically covers the rest of what I do, which is the active writing that I do on specific projects and all the other corporate stuff that I have to do with the job. [Laughs]
PGC: Alright, so how much writing do you really do on a day-to-day, project-to-project basis?
Bihldorff: It really depends on the project. This last period that I just came through was a pretty interesting one. The two projects that I was working on simultaneously were Elite Beat Agents and Zelda [Twilight Princess].
PGC: If I were to say… would games like, I don’t know…Rhythm Heaven or Mother 3 be filed under that ‘awesome stuff’?
Bihldorff: Man, Mother 3. I don’t know what’s going on with that game. That’s already out in Japan, right? Was it awesome, did you play through it?
PGC: No. I’d like to, but it’s all in Japanese. That’s where you guys come in!
Bihldorff: No, me personally, I’m not working on Mother 3. I don’t have all the writers under me, so there may be other people in discussions going on with it, but I wouldn’t look forward to it in the immediate future, no. Sorry, I know! There’s a big Mother fanbase, there is. At least everyone can go back and play Melee to get your Ness on. [Laughs]