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July 5, 2011

Iwata Asks: StarFox 64 3D - Cuthbert/Miyamoto taught each other English/Japanese

The following comments come from an Iwata Asks with Dylan Cuthbert, president of Kyoto-based Q Games...
- Cuthbert is director on StarFox 64 3D
- Cuthbert came to Japan when he was 18 to show off his 3D Game Boy engine, which truly impressed Nintendo
- Cuthbert didn't speak Japanese at the time, but picked up a language book to study on the way home
- when he returned to Japan, he could write Japanese hiragana alphabetic characters
- Miyamoto and Cuthbert began speaking to one another, teaching each other English and Japanese
- Miyamoto would speak in English to Cuthbert and Cuthbert would speak in Japanese to Miyamoto
- Miyamoto had trouble with his use of prepositions

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