Twinfinite: “It seems Final Fantasy XV is done for after Hajime Tabata has resigned. And honestly, I'm actually relieved. It was high time Square Enix moved on.”
Matsuno hasn’t directed anything major since working on FFXII. After the toll that game took on him health wise I doubt he’d be up to direct an even bigger project
It wasn't just his health though former President. Wada interfered a lot with the development of XII (he's the reason why Vaan and Penelo were shoehorned as leads)
I just wished they made a classic ff jrpg with updated graphics and 3d modeled towns. No real-time battles. No automated battles. Old school turn based.
I enjoyed XV, but it was incomplete. Vital story parts were locked away in movies, anime, books and dlc. The cast was soooo cheesy. Might be because the setting was so modern which made everyone look so out of place. I just laughed when I saw Arden in the city for the first time. Everyone had normal clothes and talked normally except Arden who looked like he was cosplaying. There also was tons of other problems, like the combat, driving, pacing and so on. Really hope they go for a different direction with XVI. I honestly think that the combat from ffxiii-2 is pretty good. Wouldn’t mind something like that. (Though I’m not fond of the game as a whole)
True! It's time to concentrate on KH3,FFVII:R,new ip's & hopefully FFXVI.
Lets just be thankful he won't have any influence for FFXVI
Now can we go back to turn based please, it's still popular they just need to update it.
Old Fantasy setting, no modern or Sci-Fi stuff, classic roles for characters, airship gained during the story not after.
Good luck trying to regain the trust of the fans after this.
FF XVI need to one hell of a complete experience. Well, they have FF VIIR first so. Soon 5 years in development.... GG Square Enix
No more D1 buys from me with any SE games. Prices of their more popular franchises/published releases plummet so far these days!
I really wish they would have finished the damn game.