The latest Iwata Asks segment covers all things Spirit Tracks. No doubt many of you have already picked up Link’s latest adventure and are already riding the rails and constantly playing with the train’s whistle. I know I am.

On the subject of the train, Spirit Tracks director Eiji Aonuma revealed that he got the idea of centering the game around them from Senro wa Tsuzuku (The Tracks Go On), a book he used to read to his son.

“…It’s a very simple [story], but the pioneering spirit, the kids building the railroad… Something about it seemed as though it would fit with The Legend of Zelda. But I didn’t tell the staff about this book.”

Aonuma then went on to talk about the trials they went through in while working on the game, like spending almost half their development time trying to figure out the best way to explore the new world.

The full story can be found here.

While talking about this latest game, Bayonetta, Hideki Kamiya told GameInformer he would love to go back to the Viewtiful Joe series and finish up the story of Joe, Sylvia, Captain Blue and the rest of the gang.

Kamiya also talked about how he views the worlds he created and his recent disinterest in wanting to create an Okami sequel.

“Up until very recently I really felt someday I wanted to make a sequel to Okami, and there were others who wanted me to as well. But then the other day I heard the announcement that someone else would be making a sequel [Okamiden] and now I’m just not interested in it anymore.

“Once someone else touches a world that you yourself created it stops being yours. There is no point in making a sequel when the world doesn’t belong to you. Viewtiful Joe is probably all I’ve got left. That story is incomplete so I’d like to finish it someday. But that would probably be the most difficult one to do [laughs].”

It’s odd that Kamiya didn’t hear about Okamiden until only recently. You would think Capcom would try to bring him back on for the project or at least consult him on story direction. Though, it is a moot point now that Kamiya has lost interest in the series.

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New DLC for Namco Bandai’s Tales of Graces was revealed and dated in the latest issue of Famitsu. For 400 Wii Points, players can purchase costumes of the girls from Idolm@ster: Dearly Stars or Vocaloid’s leek-toting, green-haired idol, Hatsune Miku.

The Idolm@ster costumes will be available by December 16 and dresses up Graces‘ Sophie, Cheria and Pascal as Dearly Stars’ Ai, Eri and Ryo. I don’t know who gets which costume, but I at least know all of Graces‘ ladies are actually ladies (lookin’ at you, Idolm@ster…).

The Miku costume will be available by December 23 and replaces Sophie’s standard garb.

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