Last Fantasy 16‘s producer Naoki Yoshida has stated that he want to direct one other main title for the collection if the chance had been supplied to him.
Following virtually 10 years of labor on the critically acclaimed massively multiplayer on-line role-playing recreation (MMORPG) Last Fantasy 14, the place he nonetheless at present acts as director and producer, Naoki Yoshida (AKA Yoshi-P) took the function of producer for 2023’s Last Fantasy 16. Nevertheless, regardless of now having two Last Fantasy video games below his belt, Yoshi-P confirms that he would nonetheless prefer to work on one other main title for the collection.
“It is fully undecided as of now, but when the chance arises to work on the following main title, I want to direct it myself!” Yoshida stated in an interview with Famitsu, translated by Aitai Kimochi on X (previously Twitter).
When requested if there can be yet one more title for Yoshida, the developer stated “‘I most likely can a minimum of add yet one more title to my title.’ Nevertheless, by doing so, I’d be setting my very own ceiling and limiting myself. This in flip may even trigger these round you to work in keeping with what you set.”
This echoes the same assertion Yoshi-P made again in January when he instructed that the way forward for the Last Fantasy collection must be led by a more recent staff of builders as an alternative of “the identical previous guys” after being requested if he can be directing the inevitable Last Fantasy 17.
“…If I had been to fall into the entice of pondering ‘I can solely do yet one more title’, then it could be marked as one thing odd, like ‘Yoshida’s masterpiece’, which is not a very good look,” he continues. “For instance, I am in my 50s proper now and nonetheless snowboarding, and the extra I snowboard, the higher I turn into. I truthfully suppose I am at my peak in the intervening time, no joke! I really feel like I can nonetheless push even additional, so in lieu of that, I have never set a cap for myself.”
Yoshi-P provides that he seems like “setting a cap” would make issues “awfully boring”.
“We do not know what the longer term holds, so why not problem ourselves every time? I believe that is undoubtedly a greater method to take a look at it. I hope that I can take even higher leaps to the likes I’ve not ever imagined.”
In different information, Yoshida has confirmed that the PC port of Last Fantasy 16 is now within the “ultimate levels of optimization” and that followers ought to anticipate its launch in not more than a 12 months.
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