Legendary Final Fantasy designer, Hironobu Sakaguchi has revealed he 'sometimes complains' about certain aspects of the Square Enix franchise in meetings with its new producer.
"I still go out drinking with Yoshinori Kitase, the current producer of Final Fantasy, once in a while, and on those occasions he does tell me that it's all fine. Sometimes, I personally complain a little bit about certain things about the franchise," he said.
"But when I left Square, I left the franchise in Kitase's hands, and he promised me he would protect and progress the Final Fantasy brand.
"He has been my right-hand man since round about the middle of Final Fantasy III, and therefore I have a lot of trust in him. I believe that if it's him in charge, he will continue to create good games for the franchise."
Sakaguchi-san's new title, The Last Story, bravely abandons the turn-based battling that typify his games in favour of a real-time system.
However, the designer refuses to sound the death-knell for turn-based RPGs: "Of course, games are a form of entertainment, so new things will always be more exciting than old things," he told CVG.
"But I'm confident that the talented youngsters in Japan will come up with new things in the future. Turn-based RPGs are an established form of entertainment, and just like puzzle games never died out, I believe that turn-based RPGs will continue to exist."
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Clusks on 20 Feb '12 said:
I've personally always preferred turn based. I couldn't get into FFXII unfortunately because I just didn't like the combat system compared to the previous games. I would like to give it another go at some point in the future though!
mrlister on 20 Feb '12 said:
As long as Pokemon's main adventures stay turn-based I'm good.