Ian Fisher writes: The situation Square Enix has found itself in (some titles underpeforming, the Japanese teams struggling on the production side of things) has resulted in a changing of the guard of sorts. Besides Yoichi Wada stepping down and Yosuke Matsuda assuming the position of President, the company is also refocusing on how it approaches games development. Now this likely won’t be a debacle akin to how THQ seemingly changed their company focus every few months before finally going kaput, but it is interesting nonetheless; not only for what sort of impact it could have on titles such as Sleeping Dogs and possibly Tomb Raider, but the industry wide repercussions it could have as well.
Square Enix will be releasing three new manga titles later this year, all of which are available for pre-order now.
Today Square Enix announced its financial results for the first nine months of the fiscal year, related to the period between April 2023 and December 2023.
im enjoying FF16. while there is a lot of talking, usually you can skip it. Looking forward to FF7R2!
The story of Chloe and Max could have continued after the ending.
I wish the developers would have gone with their original plans, it sounded really good, but apparently they didn't have enough dev time make the game like that. I'm actually upset with what we did get in the end, mainly that final episode, it was enough to turn me off other games in the series.
You can find some of the cut stuff here:
https://tcrf.net/Life_is_St...
But I can't find the article from when the game first game out that analysed what could have been.
Square is circling the bowl as far as I'm concerned. Their creativity has become too compromised and they're only more interested in keeping the money coming in rather than telling a story or entertaining players.
We expect so much from SE, I know I do and I am usually left underwhelmed.
So much so that I replay the older games to get the taste out my mouth.
However saying that, I like to think they have a few saving graces eg kh series.
Bottom line I haven't given up on SE and I feel this new gen might bring them round again. Far from a downward spiral I think they have just taken two steps downwards but they can come back. All it takes is one good game.
SE's decisions these days don't make a shred of sense. KH3 is gauranteed to bomb on the XB1, if you want the game to sell and be multiplatform, why not port it to the console with mostly cartoony games that it's gauranteed to sell well on?
Kingdom Hearts should be on Wii-U !