Last Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi left Sq. Enix in 2003 to discovered Mistwalker, since when he is labored on an eclectic mixture of video games from lavish RPGs to cell titles. Sakaguchi had beforehand indicated that after 2021’s Fantasian, which has simply obtained a director’s minimize on Steam, he’d be stepping again from the coalface and having fun with a well-earned retirement.
Now? Crank up the engine and fetch the driving goggles, as a result of Sakaguchi reckons he is bought yet another left within the tank. Talking to The Verge, Sakaguchi says he “meant Fantasian to be my remaining venture earlier than I retired, so it was considerably of a farewell notice from me.” He says that, with the discharge of Fantasian Neo Dimension, he considers the sport full, after which will get fairly existential about it:
“Within the distant future, or perhaps after I’ve already left this world, I think about this recreation will discover its that means if somebody chooses to look into the legacy of both myself or Last Fantasy.”
Sakaguchi says the entire course of of creating Fantasian “was so pleasing” that he “discovered it laborious to half methods” with the event crew. “People are grasping creatures, aren’t we? For that motive, I’m presently engaged on a brand new venture with the identical crew that labored on Fantasian Neo Dimension,” says Sakaguchi.
“It’s typically going to observe an identical fashion to my earlier works, and it’ll be one thing that may be a successor to Last Fantasy VI in a great way—our aim is to create one thing previous however new on the identical time. It’ll be half two of my farewell notice.”
The previous fox is aware of precisely what he is doing right here: Any point out of Last Fantasy 6, extensively thought to be the best 2D entry and nonetheless thought of by some the sequence’ pinnacle, can have these of a sure classic salivating. You’ll be able to by no means really return, in fact, however the reality Sakaguchi is pondering on these strains for his final hurrah does stir the blood. Retirement is for the weak: It is time for Kefka 2.0.
