>>34217656They admitted this. Source here.
Video:
https://youtu.be/qi4bxT_Bb4cTRANSCRIPT:
>"Little things like the trials in SM came very late... to the point where Ohmori had to work with the tools he could as a Director... like he couldn't get artists to come in and make new assets... he had to design the trials late in development based on writing and whatever he could figure out...""Which is why they're so weird... weird little games... like Marowak's dancing game... how bizarre they are because he hadn't the programmers"
Let's look at what they did:
Ilima - they used the pre-programmed emerge-from-burrow encounter thing
Lana - used pre-programmed bubbling spots encounter thing
Kiawe - silly spot-the-difference pictures
Mallow - find hidden items on the ground
Sophocles - question and answers in the dark
Acerola - used the pre-programmed Rotom camera
Mina - fuck it we can't think of anything let's not include it
