“Wasn’t All Fun” – Prominent Nintendo Employee Reveals His Struggles While Working on Metroid Title

Published 01/05/2022, 7:00 AM EST

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The Japanese gaming giant Nintendo is one of the most renowned gaming companies in the world. The gaming giant has been entertaining fans across the world for many decades. No doubt video games are one of the best sources of entertainment and, in fact, fans also couldn’t agree anymore. Speaking of video games, this industry might be fascinating for many of the fans, but that’s not the actual case.

Working in the gaming industry is a tough job, and it’s not fun all the time. This might surprise many fans, but it’s true. Recently, one former Nintendo veteran opened up about his tough time working on the iconic 2006 release Metroid Prime Hunters. As of now, the fans must be thinking about who’s this former prominent Nintendo’s employees? It’s none other than the popular Lawrence Schwedler.

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Lawrence Schwedler is the former Nintendo’s audio director who worked for the Japanese gaming giant for over 10 years. As an audio director, the key role of Lawrence was to compose music for different games.

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He has composed music for games like Pokémon Puzzle League, Wave Race: Blue Storm, Chibi Robo series, Metroid Prime Hunters, and many more. And not to forget that these are some of the best Nintendo games.

What Lawrence says about working at Nintendo

The former audio director has shared that it was mostly happy and great, but that wasn’t the case all the time. He also shared that working in the Japanese gaming giant has also resulted in the most difficult times of his life. All this is because of several factors like expectations, high pressure of work, followed by other factors. According to nintendolife, here’s what he says about his time at Nintendo,

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“It was stressful to work on such high-profile games with such a huge fan base, knowing that everything we did would be compared to legendary Nintendo games we all loved.”

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This makes sense because the devs have a very tense phase of their life before the release of a video game.

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Swetabh Shekhar

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Swetabh Shekhar is an eSports author at EssentiallySports and holds a Master's degree in Mass Communication. He has been playing video games since his childhood days and has witnessed the evolution of the gaming industry. GTA, Assassins Creed, Call of Duty, and The Walking Dead are some of his all-time favorites.
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