>>58537299It was 6 year total, but if you track the development, so much was added in the last 9 months it was effectively less than a year. Like, the entire story was rewritten after they sent the game to Nintendo for the initial testing. All of the character designs, the Sugimori art, was made AFTER the sprites were done. He looked at them and reverse engineered them. He did not have the proper methods for directing people. Thankfully Masuda did.
