Including, sadly, an even WEIRDER-sounding Tingle game we never got
And that... is how he ended up as an uncredited localization producer for Donkey Kong Country
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It SOUNDS like he may have been burnt out and struggling around that time, as he relates here, so his career took a new turn (after some more Kirby and Mario work)
After that was Link's Awakening. The Windfish's egg and his concept, and though he left the script of the main quest to Yoshiaki Koizumi, he himself wrote most of the odd side characters' dialog.
His NEXT role was as a Script Writer for A Link to the Past.
Kensuke Tanabe announced that he is retiring in an interview today!
He was a script writer who worked on A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening, so let's talk a little bit about him and his career.
LTTP team:
Tanabe on his favorite movies set in a post-apocalyptic world, 2018.
Source: Kotaku
Tanabe and Tsuda on the inspiration for Dillon the armadillo, 2018.
Source: Kotaku
Tanabe on a surprising cancelled Tingle game, 2018.
Source: Kotaku
Tanabe on what the Donkey Kong Country soundtrack brings to mind, 2010.
Source: Iwata Asks
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