designer
Yoshiaki Koizumi
小泉歓晃
About
Yoshiaki Koizumi is a Nintendo game director and producer. He served as scenario and story designer on The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (1993), creating the game's central concept — that the island of Koholint is a dream — and scripting the interactions with its eccentric villagers. He later directed Super Mario Odyssey (2017) and has served as producer on numerous Nintendo titles.