Hironobu Sakaguchi is called the daddy of the Ultimate Fantasy sequence, however he has been engaged on a number of authentic video games since he left Sq. Enix. Now, he is at work on a brand new one as soon as once more.
In a year-end group interview on the Japanese media outlet Famitsu, Sakaguchi-san reveals that he has began engaged on a model new title at his firm, Mistwalker Company.
Particularly, he has accomplished the plot and he is now writing the situation. He is working exhausting to inject enjoyable into it at this early stage,
In the mean time, Sakaguchi-san didn’t present additional info on this new recreation, which follows the JRPG Fantasian for Apple Arcade, which obtained a whole lot of reward from critics and followers.
After all, he additionally mentions that he is nonetheless enjoying Ultimate Fantasy XIV, so we will infer that he is engaged on the brand new recreation in his free time from his actual full-time job, which is enjoying Sq. Enix’s MMORPG.
Sure. That is a joke. I am pretty happy with it.
Sakaguchi-san lately appeared on the Ultimate Fantasy XIV Fan Competition in London, the place he flatly refused the thought of engaged on the MMORPG as a visitor creator, since that might smash his enjoyment of the sport.
Just lately, he additionally performed and praised Sq. Enix’s newest Ultimate Fantasy title, Ultimate Fantasy XVI.
Earlier than engaged on Fantasian, Sakaguchi-san spent a while on free-to-play cell video games together with the Terra Battle sequence and the spin-off Terra Wars.
He had a plan to launch a recreation inside that franchise on consoles, but it surely by no means materialized.
Following his departure from Sq. Enix in 2003, he labored on many basic JRPGs, together with Blue Dragon, Misplaced Odyssey, and The Final Story.
I am pretty positive I am not the one one who want to see him return to engaged on consoles, however for now, we’ll have to attend and see.