>>19760143majority of the character designs and monster designs are created by him, inhouse.
the style of the games is also heavily inspired by the anime series of 'Dragon Ball' which, guess what, he also worked on.
Same game also markets itself heavily through the manga and animated series reputation.
The entire style motify of Dragon Quest comes directly from Akira Toriyama, and a huge amount of games take heavy inspiration both from Dragon Quest and Dragon Ball, such as Pokemon and Zelda.
Without Toriyama, the entire style of Japanese games would not have their style. But because he isn't directly tied to Nintendo, somehow he isn't important to gaming culture and to the folk in charge of /v.
He was far more influential to gaming media than people give him credit for.
