Nintendo says diversity was ‘extremely important’ for new Switch fighter Arms
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Later this month, Nintendo will launch Arms on Switch, a fighting game with an eclectic cast of characters reminiscent of Blizzard’s megahit shooter Overwatch. While the games are built on different genres, one key similarity between the two is the variety of their rosters. That was by design.
“As this is a game where characters fight each other, we thought that it was extremely important to have this kind of diversity for the players,” explains art director Masaaki Ishikawa, “so that they had something to latch on to.”
The cast of Arms is fairly small by fighting game standards. There are 10 fighters in all, including several who aren’t human. But while the…
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