The daddy of the Final Fantasy collection has full marks for Final Fantasy 16.
If you really did not currently recognize, Hironobu Sakaguchi is commonly deemed the “founding father” of the Final Fantasy collection. In the years considering that he quit working on the collection, Sakaguchi has actually still stayed a substantial follower of Final Fantasy’s modern-day games, and also currently he’s obtained high words of appreciation for Final Fantasy 16, hailing it as the “ultimate fantasy” in the tweet listed below.
That’s reached be songs to the ears of designers at Square Enix that’ve worked on Final Fantasy 16 over the past six years. In the follow-up tweet below, Sakaguchi summarised his thoughts on the Final Fantasy series in general, mentioning “adventurousness, courage, and determination” are all key qualities of the historic RPG series.
It seems like Sakaguchi is saying Final Fantasy 16 embodies all of these core tenets. When the founding father of a series asserts his opinion of the series at large, it’s hard to really argue against him. Sakaguchi might be gone from Square Enix, but that doesn’t mean he’s done with Final Fantasy completely.
This sort of praise from Sakaguchi isn’t really unexpected if you’re familiar with him. He’s been one of the loudest supporters of Final Fantasy 14, and its director, Naoki Yoshida, over the past three years or so, while also pestering Yoshida for any news about Final Fantasy 16 at literally any opportunity. It’s sort of surprising Square Enix didn’t give Sakaguchi a copy of the game as a gift, to be honest.
Speaking of Final Fantasy 14, we have actually no doubt Sakaguchi will be excited for Final Fantast 14: Dawntrail, the next major expansion for the MMO coming next year in summer 2024. That expansion will be preceded by Final Fantasy 14’s patch 6.5, which is coming later this year in October, followed by a second part early next year in January 2024.
Fantasian might finally be getting a PC release, meaning there’s a chance we could actually purchase the latest RPG made by Sakaguchi and also business at Mistwalker.
Source: gamesradar.com
