User blog comment:WaterKirby1994/Why Generations Shouldn't Have Been Praised/@comment-477304-20171114152221/@comment-477304-20171114182656

Iizuka is a director, Yuji Naka was a producer, the two aren't comparable in this regard. Iizuka contributed more to the Adventure games you like so much than Yuji Naka did.

All the major console games were represented in the games, even then games and levels were still referenced either by level segments, or with music.

How did they not capture the elements of the Adventure games? The levels were rather faithful, they even included some elements from the original levels and they kept the more iconic moments, such as running down the building in Speed Highway, or the snowboarding section and the GUN truck in City Escape.

No-one's trying to get rid of Iizuka and replacing him with Yuji Naka makes no sense because they had different roles in the company.