Nintendo’s strategic RPG series Fire Emblem has many fans throughout the world and one of those is Nintendo president, Shuntaro Furukawa. The news was revealed in an episode of the Kit and Krysta Podcast in which Krysta Yang described her story of meeting Nintendo’s current president and finding out his enduring love for the long-running Fire Emblem franchise. Here’s what Krysta Yang said:
“The other thing about Mr. Furukawa that’s really fun is that, you know, he came to our office when he became the global president to like, introduce himself, for us to get to know him, and I love how, yeah, it was like, sort of the first time we were seeing his personality and getting to know who he is as a person. At the time he was telling us like, how he was a huge Fire Emblem fan and he was like playing Fire Emblem and he was like “I’m a huge fan, I’ve been playing Fire Emblem, but then I got to the end of Fire Emblem and I was like, the credits were rolling, and it got to the very end and it was like, Executive Producer: Furukawa” like him, right, and he was like “that was a hard cold reality that I had to get back to work”.
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