This year’s Game Developers Choice Awards might’ve brought some big wins for Sam Barlow’s Her Story and CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, but it was the awards show’s animated tribute to the late Satoru Iwata that really captured hearts.

Last year, the much lauded game programmer, businessman, and fourth president and CEO of Nintendo passed away at the age of 55 due to complications from cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer).

The legendary Iwata may be no longer with us, but, as the tribute so compellingly shows, his life of legacy has left a lasting impression behind.