Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi left Square Enix in 2003 to discovered Mistwalker, since when he is labored on an eclectic mixture of video games from lavish RPGs to cellular titles. Sakaguchi had beforehand indicated that after 2021’s Fantasian, which has simply acquired a director’s lower 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 received yet another left within the tank. Speaking to The Verge, Sakaguchi says he “meant Fantasian to be my last undertaking earlier than I retired, so it was considerably of a farewell be aware from me.” He says that, with the discharge of Fantasian Neo Dimension, he considers the sport full, after which will get reasonably existential about it:
“In the distant future, or possibly after I’ve already left this world, I think about this recreation will discover its which means if somebody chooses to look into the legacy of both myself or Final Fantasy.”
Sakaguchi says the entire course of of constructing Fantasian “was so pleasing” that he “discovered it exhausting to half methods” with the event staff. “Humans are grasping creatures, aren’t we? For that motive, I’m at present engaged on a brand new undertaking with the identical staff that labored on Fantasian Neo Dimension,” says Sakaguchi.
“It’s typically going to comply with the same fashion to my earlier works, and it’ll be one thing that may be a successor to Final Fantasy VI in a great way—our objective is to create one thing outdated however new on the similar time. It’ll be half two of my farewell be aware.”
The outdated fox is aware of precisely what he is doing right here: Any point out of Final Fantasy 6, broadly considered the best 2D entry and nonetheless thought of by some the collection’ pinnacle, can have these of a sure classic salivating. You can by no means actually return, after all, however the reality Sakaguchi is considering on these strains for his final hurrah does stir the blood. Retirement is for the weak: It’s time for Kefka 2.0.
