“In my last job, I made a game called Chibi-Robo!” said Freakyforms director Hiroshi Moriyama, at the beginning of a new Iwata Asks interview focused on the downloadable 3DS game. “And the last game I made was called Okaeri! Chibi-Robo.”

In fact, Moriyama directed the first two Chibi-Robo titles (and likely the third, but I’m not sure he has the director credit on that?) while at Skip. He explained in the video interview that he was inspired to make Freakyforms when his niece found Chibi-Robo too difficult to play.

I’m totally not surprised that Moriyama used to work at Skip. Basically, whenever something weird and creative comes out of Japan, especially if it’s published by Nintendo, I assume that it was made by someone who was either Love-de-Lic staff, or staff of a company founded by someone from Love-de-Lic (like Skip).

This video is worth watching just for the surreal moment when Iwata proudly beams as he talks about being hesitant to greenlight the game.

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