That said, we didn't want the screen cluttered and so after a lot of back and forth and trying a lot of different things, we came to the design…in the trailer, and that it just happens to look like a fighting game is just something that ended up happening. ?
For example, maybe one Eikon versus Eikon battle, if you have Eikon A versus Eikon B, that battle will be reminiscent of a 3D shooter.And so again, we didn’t reuse these systems and each one of these Eikon versus Eikon battles is unique and will change with each battle.
GI: Mainline Final Fantasy games of late have skewed more toward modern timelines, with heavy emphasis on the integration of tech with magic, but FFXVI looks decidedly more medieval, or classic FF.Yoshida: The answer to that is actually kind of simple: it just happens to be that a lot of the core members in [Creative Business Unit III] really enjoyed those classic Final Fantasies as well as that classic medieval European fantasy feel – myself included – and we wanted to create a game that had that feeling.As you know, the Final Fantasy series is kind of famous, or infamous, for being different with each entry in the series.That said, after doing some recent user research, we found that a lot of the users were finding that a lot of the recent Final Fantasy [games] were kind of becoming static in that vision so we wanted to use this as an opportunity to step back from that and try something different; not just for us, but thinking to the future of Final Fantasy and forthcoming projects, we wanted to try something different and maybe show that yeah, the series can go in different directions rather than focusing on one?
As you know, on Final Fantasy XIV, I’m both producer and director
Final Fantasy XVI being the newest entry in the series means that all eyes are going to be on us as everyone pretty much is out there scrambling to figure out just what kind of game it will be, and a lot of that pressure goes directly to the directorAfter that, read about how I’m excited for the Kaiju-style fights it appears to be giving us, and then check out Game Informer’s ranking of every mainline Final Fantasy game.