yes Nintendo are hateful for submitting this patent...

...and so is the patents office for approving this shite sham patent

ps: iirc it's been a reality of patent offices for several years that they almost blindly approve requests if formal requirements are met, without thoroughly checking for prior art and other subject-specific aspects

this patent could probably be challenged and dropped before they try to use it against other game devs

but that would be a reversed whack-a-mole where the huge company with the big money and the barely infinite legal team comes up with new shoddy patents and the bigger legal cost is everyone else's to challenge each one of them

this is a rotten legal field until patents scope and originality are subject to more limits to applicability and better scrutiny before acceptance (and patent offices are properly supervised to enforce this), and/or a legal pathway for making it unlawful to forge sham patents (eg: in my country there is a mechanism to sue back if someone tries to sue you in bad faith, trying to weaponize the legal process)