The hand of God Even Peter Shilton rejected the apology, arguing that it was now too late. Maradona, a few days after the article came out, came out to deny everything, saying that the newspaper had changed the terms. Next, the note:A few days later, The Sun newspaper confirmed that it had modified the interpretation of Maradona's words and asked to change the name to "The Devil's Hand". In the original band of the interview it could be seen that Maradona had never asked for forgiveness for the goal from the hand of God. The quartet singer Rodrigo Bueno used the phrase to compose
God Hand contained some comic relief, the team decided to integrate a large amount of comedy into the game based on the viewers' reactions. Inaba stated that "God Hand" is "aimed at hardcore gamers," which is shown in its hard difficulty. Unlike "Viewtiful Joe" and "Ōkami", the design team had no particular goal when designing the graphical style of "God Hand" other than that they wanted it to look more realistic. Although "God Hand" appears to share many elements with manga and anime such as "Fist of the North Star" and "MD Geist", none were actually used as inspiration for the game.