Final Fantasy XVI is still very far from its release, since it is scheduled for the summer of 2023, but we imagine that Square-Enix already thinking about the next episode. In the interview tour that Naoki Yoshida realized yesterday, he mentioned the case Final Fantasy 17without confirming anything about it, but delivering its opinion to GamesRadar on the future of the saga while justifying its choices for the sixteenth episode.
Final Fantasy 17 with pixel-art and turn-based?
It may have caused some disappointment, but Final Fantasy XVI will focus on action, with much more dynamic gameplay than other games in the saga. However, Naoki Yoshida does not think turn-based is dead, and understands the opinions of fans who may be disappointed with the action direction:
” I fully understand the appeal and potential of turn-based games. I still think Square Enix will have the opportunity to create something like this… Personally, I would say that if you’re going to create something like that, maybe the graphics fit better with that system, maybe going towards a more pixel-art style. But does that mean Final Fantasy 17 will have pixel art? I don’t know anything about it. Because once you’ve pushed the graphics this far with FF16, if you decide to go back to pixel graphics with that, then people are going to be like, “Hey, what are you doing? Why are you going back to pixel-art? » »
A Final Fantasy 17 close to the style of Octopath Traveler could actually satisfy the most nostalgic, but we imagine that the general public would have more difficulty. The takeaway here is that currently, Yoshida doesn’t think he’ll be working on the seventeenth episode:
“ This time we will go in this direction, but next time there will be a different team, a different direction, a different world, a different combat system. »
Like all Final Fantasy in short, which often changed everything from one episode to another. But it is still far too early to worry about it, since we imagine that this Final Fantasy 17 will not arrive for a while.