JackHandy on 01 February 2026
| Wman1996 said: If this is true, at least crunch seems to be mostly gone at Nintendo now. Early GameCube games were pretty quickly developed, and Majora's Mask was quickly developed as well. |
Crunch time or not, the NES and SNES was when they were at their creative peak. They didn't just make Zelda, Maro and Metroid Games. They invented Zelda, Mario and Metroid games. It came out of their minds, out of thin air, and with no road to go by. There were no prior installments to refine and build off of. Yet they were able to dream them up. So if that's what Nintendo crunch time produces, perhaps--at least within their company--it's not such a bad thing.
