I remarked to multiple other E3-observers that I literally did not believe that Nintendo was capable of making a game like the one they just showed. I would be more inclined to believe that it was a bullshot fabrication than a real product of Nintendo EAD's traditional, tightly-scripted assembly lines.

So hearing that an open-world RPG developer is actually doing it makes a lot, lot more sense. Which is good, because now I can actually believe that this refreshingly-free-spirited adventure might really exist.