Final Fantasy XV director points to Zelda as a franchise he’d like to work on

In one of its issues earlier this month, Dengeki PlayStation spoke with a ton of recognized game creators ranging from Keiji Inafune to Tetsuya Nomura. This feature was published to celebrate the magazine’s 600th issue.
One of the developers Dengeki PlayStation reached out to was Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata.

[MrSwankSinatra]

After FF-Type-0, Hell No!

[MegaRay]

Yup, even FF XV demo is a little disappointing.

[DiaperFace]

FFXV is trash.

[Eiyuuou]

Imo the game was still too incomplete to make a demo. Hell, even the combat system wasn't even complete. Why bother making a demo?

Type-0 was awesome though. Not FFIX awesome, but still a great game.

@DiaperFace

Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's trash. Thinking THIS is trash just means you haven't seen real trash.

[Savsky]

FF XV combat was the only refreshing thing about it to me. I'm not a fan of turn based combat and the action based combat felt all right. It could have been tweaked some, but I am sure they're working on it.

Note: I realize that the best FF games were turn based and don't mean to make anyone angry.

[Nerdmaster]

It's funny how most games that are Japan-only and that western gamers have to beg for publishers to bring them here, end up not being very good. I guess publishers know best.

[OtakuDJK1NG-Rory]

You can work on it. You ain't gonna direct anything. I give you that.

[Geobros]

Tabata is not bad at all but I would prefer Kojima.

[MrSwankSinatra]

Zelda + Kojima??? Uh, no thanks.

[HentaiMasterRace]

We'd have been playing as Link's mailman all along. So no, not Kojima.

[HawaiianDreads]

I say let him try, who knows it could be good. I know his last game he worked on is "meh" and we don't know about FXV as of yet, but maybe the guy is just tired of Final Fantasy and want to try something new. Honestly I just like giving people the benefit of the doubt before writing them off.

[DiaperFace]

Why not.

[kaixxi]

After the changes he made in ff15 because he feels and didnt like it? And made the game like his and not nomura? F@ck this idiot.

[kowan]

I would suggest that he actually finishes FFXV first before being very ambitious on other projects. It's not wrong at all but since FFXV is pretty much his first ever big game and not to mention it's not even entirely his creation and the fact it has yet to be released then I think it would be better to release that first and see if the game ends up being amazing. Because if it flops and ends up a critical failure then I doubt any project would actually be given to him.

[CaptainN]

While I appreciate his enthusiasm...I personally would prefer Hironobu Sakaguchi,who previously held the post of executive producer for the Final Fantasy series and was director of The Last Story. That game was amazing on the Wii and really needs a sequel...but I wouldnt mind him getting involved with Zelda.