Hey guys,
So obviously folk have been wondering about the Chris Miller tweets, hence why I was tagged here. I run the LaytonSmash account, and the reason why I deleted the first tweet with the photographic evidence of the tweet having taken place was due to the fact that nearly a week after it all transpired, people were still retweeting it and taking it entirely out of context. I wanted to prevent the spread of what was somewhat erroneous data, as I presented it in a definite style. I said something along the lines of "Who wants to say it? I'm too hyped to write it. ____ in Smash", which is extremely leading and not with the level of skepticism that it should have been approached with.
If you look at Miller's twitter page now (it's locked, but he accepts basically everyone who tries following him), you'll see the remainders either side of the August 22nd tweet-- the initial denial on the 3rd of August, and the "I don't know for sure" tweet afterwards. I can explicitly confirm that it was not faked, as those remnants exist, but obviously he did as I did and deleted the tweet that could be taken out of context and plastered on every pseudo-news site in the netscape. Several people other than myself read the tweet firsthand (indicated by the favourites on it at the time I observed later), so if it's necessary I can get a few other folks invovled to properly confirm.
Miller sent the tweet saying "I guess I AM in that! That's what those extra pages were in the session" to me twice, replying to two different messages and with slightly different wording, so there's no doubt that he was saying what he wanted to say in that respect. He believed it too, but didn't actually know, which he clarified afterwards. He was guessing, based on what he knew. And as I discovered with research, it's extremely common that video game voice actors have no idea of the projects they work on. It can be assumed from the context that it was a recording with Level-5's contractors rather than with Nintendo themselves, so it stands to reason he was never given an NDA to sign, because he would not have known the context of its use. Perhaps it featured a lot more grunting and shouting than his usual Layton recordings, leading him to believe it was for an action game.
The LaytonSmash account doesn't fake anything for the purposes of misleading. Any time I do make an edit for comedic purposes or as a concept, I explicitly state it as being fake in the tweet. Nearly always, I report the facts on any rumours exactly as I have received them through my sources and through the general information available on the internet, excluding what would be obviously considered spoilers. Ever since these Miller tweets blew up and I sort of disgracefully dressed it as a confirmation, I've done my best to remain as unleading with my responses to rumours as possible, and deleting that leading tweet was necessary to sustain that. I presented a lot of critical explanations as to why I believed it over the following week, and allowed people to make their minds up on it after that. Sorry for any confusion that I've caused by deleting the first tweet.
PushDustIn
said he was at 70%-80% and that made me very happy.
