Have you ever wondered what episode of Pokemon series has been the most tiring to make for Game Freak? If the answer was negative, if I’m asked my colleagues on the US magazine Game Informer, who posed the question directly to Junichi Masuda, director of the series.

As revealed by the developer, the most difficult challenge was to give life, the Game Boy Advance, Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire. Some problemsthey came right from the need to optimize the game for the hardware: “with Ruby and Sapphire, the screen had become a bit longer and there was a different aspect ratios. Also, there were more colors and more channels to the sound, then the technology was way way ahead. [Game Boy Advance] has allowed us to do so much and gave us great freedom, but at the same time it served more time to accomplish things. “

However, the technique has not been the most difficult part: “afterthe output of Gold and Silver, which was a huge success worldwide, everyone started saying, ‘ well, it’s over. The fad of Pokemon is now over, the saga is dead. ‘ At that time, the atmosphere in General, spoke of the fact that the fashion of Pokemon was over and we had a huge pressure, because we needed to prove everyone wrong. “

Actually, cope with this stress must not have been easy, since the good Masudaended even at the hospital: “I have accumulated so much stress [for Ruby and Sapphire], at the end I had to go to hospital and I had stomach problems and I had to go, you know, by inserting a camera to go see. It was very stressful. The night before the game’s release, also I dreamed it would be a complete failure, it was really a nightmare» concluded Masuda in his interview.

After these confidences, the words of a few days agotake on even more depth: Masuda had asked fans to not exaggerate too much their expectations for the new Pokemon for Nintendo Switch. Hopefully, at least this time, does not have to end up in hospital!

Source: GameSpot