16th September 2015, 6:43 PM
You are right on that point at least, getting Fire Emblem in the West was really fantastic, that series is one of Nintendo's best. It would have been awful if we had continued to miss out on them...
And on that note, we did get most of the good first-party games during that '02 to '06 period, which was quite nice. Since then that has changed of course, on the Wii and DS Nintendo went back to not localizing some games for various (often annoying) reasons. I don't know if Kimishima had anything to do with that though, considering that it was really Iwata in charge through the whole period from '02 to earlier this year.
And on that note, we did get most of the good first-party games during that '02 to '06 period, which was quite nice. Since then that has changed of course, on the Wii and DS Nintendo went back to not localizing some games for various (often annoying) reasons. I don't know if Kimishima had anything to do with that though, considering that it was really Iwata in charge through the whole period from '02 to earlier this year.