Well done to him, but really I don't know who else they could have possibly given it to - nobody else has come close IMO to the importance of the games he's designed.
I suppose people might have a favourite 'Moto game. Mine would have to be Pikmin, I defy any true gamer NOT to fall in love with that game, it's got it all. The sequel is amazing too, but just a bit too difficult for me. The hopes of a DS version is what made me buy a DS in the first place, it'd simply rock my world.
Pikmin, if your unaware is a 3D nano-world puzzle and action game, nothing I can really compare it to, sept maybe Toy Commander meets Lemmings.
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