Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon was released on Nintendo 3DS last week and many may wonder why the title did not support the Circle Pad Pro considering the original GameCube classic utilized two control sticks; one for moving Luigi and the other for controlling his equipment. Quite literally, in an interview with IGN, director Bryce Holliday stated that the extra circle pad did not add any different influence to the game so they felt only one was necessary.

“We always wanted it to work with a single circle pad. When we moved to a second analog stick, because we’d actually changed that gameplay mechanic paradigm to the tug-of-war, it just wouldn’t work. There was nothing to do with the second stick. By changing, at the beginning of the project, the high-level strategy around the ghost fishing, we found that when we did experiment with the Circle Pad Pro, it didn’t add anything.”