Hardcore Gamer: I’m a little nervous as I step into the hotel room. How can I not be? I’m meeting with Hironobu Sakaguchi, one of the founding fathers of Japanese Role-Playing. But as I shake Sakaguchi’s hand, something strikes me as reassuringly familiar. He’s in America to promote Mistwalker’s latest game, a mobile RPG called Terra Battle. The game casts grid-based SRPG combat in a very minimalistic light, with a heavy emphasis on positioning, formation, and flanking. Its battle system is purpose-built for touch devices, but packs the sort of mechanical depth you’d expect from the creator of Final Fantasy.
The dev praised the non-Japanese team behind the game for keeping its setting authentic to real life.
Crazy how many Japanese developers have come out to praise the game when the Western journalists were trying to play it down and give off the impression it was somehow racist for a Western studio to make a game set in Japans history
Is this trying to reach back and aim for another round of cultural appropriation? Yes, some Americans made a great game that respects another culture, get over it and go Frosk yourselves.
Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi was asked whether he'd work on the MMORPG as a guest creator during a panel that TechRaptor attended in person, and his answer was relatable and funny at the same time.
What is Sakaguchi working on nowadays? Fantasian was the last thing he put out right? That game really needs a Steam release or something.
There has been a lot of discussion about whether Final Fantasy XVI is worthy of the franchise, and the game just received an exceptional endorsement.
Right there with him. It's not my absolute favorite of the franchise, but cemented itself in my top 3 of the series! I think the gameplay and exploration of some previous entries were done a lot better though. (XVI really needed mini-games and fun side things to do...) Some of the slower story moments could have been done better as well. However, it has some of the best boss fights and story/cutscene moments of any game I've ever played. I have been gaming since the NES days and I can't really think of anything that can even compare to this in terms of boss battles.
My favorite game this year so far. Maybe it will change when I play BG3 and Spider-man 2.