{"id":428,"date":"2025-03-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/?p=428"},"modified":"2025-03-18T12:44:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:44:32","slug":"sakurai-says-japanese-developers-should-avoid-trying-to-appeal-to-western-tastes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/sakurai-says-japanese-developers-should-avoid-trying-to-appeal-to-western-tastes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakurai Says Japanese Developers Should Avoid Trying To Appeal To Western Tastes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;I think that they seek the uniqueness and fun of Japanese games&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Super Smash Bros.<\/strong> creator Masahiro Sakurai was recently awarded the Art Encouragement Prize from the Japanese government\u2019s Agency for Cultural Affairs for his remarkable achievement with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@sora_sakurai_en\">&#8216;Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games&#8217;<\/a> YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p>As part of that, he conducted an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entax.news\/post\/202503131845.html\">Entax<\/a> (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/super-smash-bros-creator-masahiro-sakurai-encourages-japanese-developers-to-pursue-the-kind-of-games-japanese-people-love-instead-of-adapting\/\">Automaton<\/a>) in which he stressed a need for Japanese developers to focus on creating games with domestic appeal rather than trying to cater to Western tastes.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/03\/sakurai-says-japanese-developers-should-avoid-trying-to-appeal-to-western-tastes\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I think that they seek the uniqueness and fun of Japanese games&#8221;. Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai was recently awarded the Art Encouragement Prize from the Japanese government\u2019s Agency for Cultural Affairs for his remarkable achievement with the &#8216;Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games&#8217; YouTube channel. As part of that, he conducted an interview with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}