Baldur's Gate 3, Street Fighter and Lost Ark developers discuss.Read our editorial policy"My take on Final Fantasy, and this is quite deliberate, is I don't restrict it to being any one thing," says series producer Yoshinori Kitase. I'd asked him what he felt was the essence of Final Fantasy, especially as so many fans have their own ideas of what the series should be.
But why remake this game in the first place?"If a player from the modern generation plays , are they going to get the same emotional reaction and response the original generation of players had 27 years ago when it was current and cutting edge? I don't think they would," says Kitase. "We need to remake the game as a modern game so it can continue to be seen in that light rather than just as an artefact from history."
."We did try and bring out the humour in the game," says Kitase, once more relating to that toy box."Although it's not a defining point of the series, something which has marked Final Fantasy in the past is that humorous element - it's not just serious, dark stories, there are funny bits too. With such a wide world map with so much content we needed to put into that, obviously we wanted to have a big variety of different themes and feels there.
"I think there's no iron rule that says we have to make everything in a super realistic photo real art style."
Source: Loan Digest (loandigest.net)