>>9838196I dont think its exclusive to nintendo anon. Its just a few games im rather familiar with as well as many others and thus works well to explain it, especially since they use it so overt. But you could see Sonic running some checkered floor collecting rings (of saturn?). You have this here from CoD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVPT0JT1dOwFinal Fantasy XIII Lightning returns has, whenever the chaos/void appears a checkered floor going around it as a kind of barrier. And its not only games either. Pic related is on stevens universe being basically luciferian. Never watched it so cant really tell on it but judge yourself.
You have Anime
>>9838098 >>9838169 (will mention a couple other examples later on). My Hero Academia: Two Heroes essentially ends with the main villain creating a huge black cube as his last resort attack which gets smashed into pieces by the good guys. Generally the japanese, while using the same symbols, often use it to tell it in a non corruptive way, in a way where the evil isnt portrayed as good, at least thats my perception.
Freemasons appearently took a hold on Japan after WW2.