Phew, it's certainly been a month where very little has happened from a Final Fantasy perspective. What are Square Enix playing at?
With that in mind, we've started to look a bit more to the future. We've still heard nothing about a Western release for Final Fantasy Type-0, and everything is all quiet on Final Fantasy Versus XIII.
So, with that in mind we want to know your thoughts on the following matter. Do you think Square Enix will announce Final Fantasy XV before Final Fantasy Versus XIII is released?
Final Fantasy XIII-2 is launching in Japan in about a month. Its US release will follow in late January. The fact that Final Fantasy has been topping the sales charts around the world for two decades makes it a rare and hallowed creation in the transitory medium of video gaming. But who's playing it these days? Are today's Final Fantasy fans the ones who started with the original game, or did those guys get tired of the whole thing along the way only to be replaced by youngsters who started playing more recently?
It was clearly only a matter of time before a "leaked list" of Nintendo goodies for this year's E3 would be leaked, and the latest one has a ton of information about Project Cafe.
The most interesting pieces of information though, is that the leaked list claims Final Fantasy XV will be shown on Project Cafe during Nintendo's press conference.
Square Enix have shown their support to Nintendo in a big way in recent years, with the Crystal Chronicles franchise, Dragon Quest IX and Dragon Quest X and of course, Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance.
When Dragon Quest X was announced for the Wii, I wrote an article suggesting that Final Fantasy XIV (if it were the next numbered installment) could follow suit, but that turned out to be an online installment.
Well, I said I got some interesting nuggets from my conversation with Yoshinori Kitase, but I bet you never thought you guys would be hearing anything about Final Fantasy XV, right?
Well, I was speaking to him about how main series titles have slightly longer development cycles now, and he explained why exactly that is.
Reviews and fans reactions for the latest Final Fantasy title have been a mixed bag this time around, with responses being that the game is missing some vital components that make an RPG. Before leaving GDC 2010, Gamasutra managed to catch up with Motomu Toriyama, the director of Final Fantasy XIII, to ask him some questions regarding the Western review scores.
According to some, there are a few major flaws in Final Fantasy XIII, one of those experiences being the lack of unlocked-houses to ransack for items in unsuspecting towns and cities. Something which gamers had experienced in previous Final Fantasy titles. Toriyama's response to that was, due to the intense storyline and that the characters are on the run, having them stop in towns and cities wouldn't make any sense. However Toriyama also stated that because of the HD consoles being a lot more complex, creating towns and cities would have taken far too long, as they already spent so much time creating the Crystal Tools engine for the game.
Will these components seen in past Final Fantasy titles be making a comeback anytime soon? Read the full article to find out more.
With Final Fantasy XIII very close to release on Western shores, and Final Fantasy XIV expected to be released worldwide later this year, Yoshinori Kitase, the producer of Final Fantasy XIII, is already talking about the next numbered instalment to the giant RPG franchise: Final Fantasy XV (15).
Speaking to Xbox 360 World, Kitase stated "We've got a few ideas for Final Fantasy XV lined up, but there is no singular aim for where we want the series to go. Final Fantasy can go in all directions; each one is very different from the last. The one thing we set out to do is to make sure we tell a story that hasn't been told before."
So there you have it. Square-Enix recently said that they don't want the franchise to disappear anytime soon and it sounds like they meant it, especially with two other known Final Fantasy titles, Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Final Fantasy Agito XIII also in the works.
Something for people to consider however, is will Final Fantasy XV be finished in time for this generation of consoles? One would hope that with the knowledge the development team has gained from creating Final Fantasy XIII, the time to complete Final Fantasy XV would be significantly shorter.
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