Do you think this is real?

[Tupin]

"Katsuya Eguchi, director of the Animal Crossing games, has been interviewed in the latest issue of Famitsu. In it he discusses the upcoming Animal Crossing game on the Wii, although one of the questions ties into Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

FAMITSU: Have you been approached to contribute Animal Forest elements for the new Smash Bros. game?

KATSUYA EGUCHI: Yes, and there is quite a funny story to it. A few months after E3 2006, (Masahiro Sakurai) contacted me and asked if I'd like to develop possible Animal Forest ideas for Smash Bros. Originally, we settled on just a quick, simple Animal Forest item, but with the success of Wild World and the Animal Forest film, he asked if I'd be up for designing additional elements. [Laughs] Fast forward a few months and I had stage and character concepts created. Sakurai chose his favorite of the stage concepts, slightly tweaked it to his liking, and we together decided on the final Animal Forest character, which is a very fun character to play. With both the stage and character I utilized ideas from the games. For example, if you play the stage at night, the sky will be dark. If you play in the winter, expect to see snow, and leaves in the autumn time. And yes, trees will be decorated on Christmas! It's really something else. I worked very hard on this one little stage! [Laughs] The Animal Crossing character is very much like the one in the games. You know, he will use his axe, fishing rod, bug catching net, and everything else from the games."

The problem is that no article with this in it has been found, although it might be an unrelated interview from a random section of the magazine.

[Nayrman]

Where is your source for this? If it's someplace credible saying it's from Famitsu I might believe it.

[Tupin]

Where is your source for this? If it's someplace credible saying it's from Famitsu I might believe it.

Gamefaqs.

I believe they said this interview actually happened, but was in some other magazine.

[Nayrman]

Where is your source for this? If it's someplace credible saying it's from Famitsu I might believe it.

Gamefaqs.

I believe they said this interview actually happened, but was in some other magazine.

What part of gamefaqs? The forum or the news area? Don't trust anything from a forum unless it links to a credible site X_X;;

[Triforceman22]

was this recentley made?

[Tupin]

Where is your source for this? If it's someplace credible saying it's from Famitsu I might believe it.

Gamefaqs.

I believe they said this interview actually happened, but was in some other magazine.

What part of gamefaqs? The forum or the news area? Don't trust anything from a forum unless it links to a credible site X_X;;

Well, I managed to get the rumor on Gonintendo.

http://gonintendo.com/?p=26011

All they said was that the magazine didn't have the interview in it.

Supposedly, this interview was in another issue.

[QingXin]

I found this on some Animal Crossing site, too. I'd like to believe that this is real.

[Eizweir]

is it easy to fake an interview?

[Cornwad]

is it easy to fake an interview?

Yeah, but most fake ones seem really fake.... so I guess its hard to fake a realistic interveiw.

[Nayrman]

After some thought I just can't believe this. GoNintendo is hardly credible, and it really hasn't shown up anywhere else of note yet. Besides, I doubt they'd show animal crossing stage, music, demo, etc. without showing the character unless it was something VERY special, in which Sakurai wouldn't let it slip in an interview such as this...