The Squirrel Suit is pretty innovative actually. I thought there might be some kind of more modern flying device (was thinking bungie jump). Hope theres more of them!!!
Other great quotes form the article -
Occasionally, as with the squirrel suit, Nintendo will throw a special craft your way – a pedal-glider with a speed cool-down or a dangerously zippy jet-plane, perhaps – but the central trio remain enticing enough on their own, each of them shifting the nature of the game somewhat.
Early offerings might task you with simply snapping a few photos, or popping balloons that trail from a moving car. But later events see you escorting UFOs, putting out fires and nudging airborne crates back and forth. After the novice round, you'll be penalised for every bump and crash – just like in the real air corps! – and, while it's generally pretty easy to achieve each objective, three-starring everything will require real attention and timing as you swoop through bonuses, break down special gates that require you to hit them while travelling at a specific speed, and pull off perfect stunts.
Unlocking the later levels requires plenty of stars, but each challenge also comes with a handy post-mortem breakdown showing you the aspects you need to improve on to pass. (I'm great at bumping into things, for example, but you don't want to be there when I try to land.) It all makes the road to mastery a little more alluring.
Im officially pretty fucking excited for this now.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
