The Creator Of Final Fantasy Reveals Party Wave

Hironobu Sakaguchi, better known as the man who created Final Fantasy, revealed a screenshot for his next game, Party Wave.

[aviator189]

"Sakaguchi said that after finishing The Last Story, he was planning on moving into iOS game development.."

Is he moving into iOS development for good? Or will he still be developing for consoles as well? I honestly hope it's the latter.

[Kamikaze135]

Doesn't seem to imply that it's a permanent decision, but rather, he is going to focus on iOS for a while and (hopefully) create something epic.

[Lucretia]

gaaaah i hate IOS games -_-. they dont seem to hold me well. maybe he can change my mind, but i hate touch screen analogs and buttons

[Wolfbiker]

he's just having fun, one of his favorite hobbies is surfing and he wanted to make a surfing game.

[NeoBasch]

still...

[Wolfbiker]

I know it's weird but it's cool with me if he gets to do what he wants, he's earned it.

[MoveTheGlow]

Is it just me, or does this look kinda like Five a Day? Imagine if Sakaguchi and Llamasoft teamed up...

[Eamon]

Oh how the mighty have fallen. The father of Final Fantasy and director of FF7, arguably the greatest JRPG ever, now reduced to making an iPhone minigame.

FF fans mourned the day he left Square.

I tried The Last Story but I really did not take a fancy to its gameplay and presentation. I felt Xenoblade to be much more superior title. Since Sakaguchi started Mistwalker, I've always felt Lost Odyssey to be hist best title. But then again, maybe it's because I'm old-fashioned. I did grow up playing the legendary jRPGs of the 90s.

Anyway, my only hope now is Final Fantasy Versus XIII. Nomura is one of the last people in Square to still have that creative vision that defined the jRPG genre.