epicJRPG.com brings you a summary of JRPG news from around the web for April 5th, 2013, including Square-Enix' explanation for why Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII, the missing Japan-only game from the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII series of titles, was never released in North America.
Also in this update, stories about an interview with Tales of series producer Hideo Baba, who discusses the future of the Tales series, including the question of its Playstation Vita iterations coming west, new details about upcoming PS Vita RPG Mind-0, and an article about the group dynamic which is often employed by JRPGs.
Yuji Naka was fined $1.2 million and given a suspended jail sentence for the crime.
I find his comments around how Balan turned out to be very insightful as to why the game is trash. He basically apologises for its existence
can you please give some of us who don't know anything about this, a summary of what happened?
Balan was knowingly rushed out by S-E, it had an extremely short dev cycle and was fairly low budget.
Naka was the game's director until near the end when he was fired or perhaps he quit, I forgot.
@Chocoburger Yeah they did fire and replace him which caused him to unload a bunch of rants about the company. The project only existed because of Naka in the first place, he convinced Square to give him one shot at making a platformer. They gave him an opportunity but pulled the rug out before he was done for reasons not explained.
The top producer of Square Enix flagship Dragon Quest franchise is stepping down from the role, following delays in developing the next installment of the popular series.
Please o please don't turn dragon quest into final fantasy square enix we dont wont that. Dragon quest works well just as it I. Plus you'll piss off Japanese fans to.
Hopefully they don’t. From this it doesn’t sound like that is the case and development is just taking too long.
Today it was announced that the gaming and anime industry has lost another beloved artist and creator. Mutsumi Inomata has passed away.
The Tales Of series are some of the best RPGs I've ever played, and the characters are a big reason for that. I don't think I played a single game in the series that I didn't enjoy. Rest in peace.
We're 3 months into the year and I feel like we're taking nothing but L's.
Wow she was the character designer for Tales of Destiny one of my favorites of all time =(
I love the Tales games. Phantasia will always be my favorite. Ironically I felt like as the series progressed the character design became too “anime cliche.”
The Vita needs JRPG's. Hopefully when FFX releases, it sells well enough for other publishers to notice.
ppl want this bad !!!
wish the vita got as much jrpg love as the DS in the west!