For just a few years now, we’ve heard Last Fantasy XVI is impressed by HBO’s <em>Recreation of Thrones</em>, and through my cowl story journey to Tokyo, Japan, to talk with Artistic Enterprise Unit III, I realized extra about this. Particularly, and maybe critically, I realized that the staff was impressed by the primary 4 seasons of <em>Recreation of Thrones</em>. Or no less than, that’s the place it began.
“Proper across the begin of the sport’s growth again once we’re in that early interval is correct about when [Season 4 of Game of Thrones on HBO] was airing,” FFXVI producer Naoki Yoshida tells me. “We had seen it develop into this tv present that was cherished around the globe, not simply by older generations however youthful generations as effectively. So we purchased the Blu-Ray field of Seasons 1, 2, 3, and 4, and made everybody on the staff watch it mainly to get throughout to builders that that is what’s trending on the planet – that that is the kind of fantasy that individuals are having fun with.”
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The Iron Kingdom
However Yoshida says the staff took nice warning to keep away from FFXVI feeling like a carbon copy of Recreation of Thrones. Whereas its inspirations are clear, it looks like its personal factor after enjoying and watching the sport for roughly 5 hours. Plus, with all the pieces else occurring within the recreation – particularly the Eikon vs. Eikon fight – the staff drew on different sources of inspiration like Assault on Titan, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Godzilla, Ultraman, and extra.
Not solely does Recreation of Thrones encourage the story and world really feel of Last Fantasy XVI, but it surely additionally conjures up lots of its visible type, in response to artwork director Hiroshi Minagawa.
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Last Fantasy XVI Artwork Director Hiroshi Minagawa
“After I joined the staff and spoke with Takai-san concerning the total look of the sport, we had that broad stroke that we wished to have one thing that’s going to have that Recreation of Thrones really feel, that sort of pure customary excessive fantasy that you simply’d see in that sort of program and visible medium,” he tells me.
Whereas folks immediately nonetheless argue the place Recreation of Thrones started to falter, you’d be hard-pressed to seek out somebody who thinks the reply is someplace in these first 4 seasons. These episodes are implausible tv, and if FFXVI’s tackle fantasy comes near rivaling them, we could possibly be in for one thing particular. Luckily, we don’t have too wait lengthy as a result of FFXVI hits PlayStation 5 on June 22.
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