MinnMax Interview - Mario RPGs And Director Chihiro Fujioka’s Life In Games

MinnMax'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.

Watch and share the video version of this interview here - https://youtu.be/Is2IaYj5fpU

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 

Thanks to (Resident Evil superfan) Alex Aniel for translating our interview - https://twitter.com/cvxfreak

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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