Sakaguchi Isn't Interested in Working on Final Fantasy, Lost Odyssey, Or Blue Dragon Again - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 July 2024 / 3,131 Views
Hironobu Sakaguchi, best known for creating the Final Fantasy series, in an interview with Bloomberg has stated he is no interest in revisiting any of his older franchises. This includes Final Fantasy, Lost Odyssey, and Blue Dragon.
Sakaguchi said he has "switched to a consumer rather than a creator" and if he takes on the "Final Fantasy brand again, I don’t know if I’ll be able to genuinely enjoy Final Fantasy XIV as much."
He added he has no interest in bringing his older titles like Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon to modern platforms.
Interesting enough he does want to revive the 2014 mobile strategy game, Terra Battle.
Sakaguchi is currently finalizing the story for a new title with Mistwalker saying "We’ll say it’s something new, for now."
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Big shame to hear considering Lost Odyssey is one of the best JRPGs I played.
Agree
How strange, he wants to revive Terra Battle, but has no interest in remakes or sequels for his other old games. Why Terra Battle of all games?
Might be as simple as because it's his studio and truely his IP, he knows he'd have complete control.
Well thats a damn shame, final fantasy hasnt been the same since he left. And it will never be. This man vision and direction was what made those games so good. Now final fantasy doesnt even know what it is, a jrpg, an action game a AAA western lookong game? The last one i really loved was FFX.
The other 2 can be placed via BC where The Last Story the best of the 3 is stuck on Wii.
I get not wanting to work on old projects you no longer have a passion for. In fact, I respect blazing your own trail instead of playing it safe or selling out. But nothing wrong with porting older games to modern platforms for the sake of availability.
Unfortunate we won't see others like it Xbox or otherwise they were good to see, same with Blinx with those that made the designs there and more. Than again Artoon/Azest changed a lot too over the years.
IPs go all sorts of directions, to focus on the current makes sense though or other licensing/control that's a challenge to port them let alone the source code, sigh, niche or successful ones to keep up.
Glad I can find them whenever I can but for SNES or others yeah that's a challenge but PS3/360/PS2 and so on at least have been reasonable so far I find discovering many but yeah having space or maintaining consoles or finding the games on modern then out of print is very different for people for sure.
I think a port or something else or something with the IP so it's more accessible. Okami Den is STILL on DS when the original has been on many platforms at this point what is Capcom doing. Square made TWETY happen and a sequel they can work around that and if we ever Blue Dragon DS games ported either which I doubt it.
Was it worth it for TWETY I don't know but still great to see it did happen then not and few new fans pick them up and the sequel too. Same with Front Mission remakes (got into Evolved on PS3 then the remake) or Tactics Ogre besides the PSP version. Are they good remakes no idea but I have found them fair enough from other tactics games I got into.
Glad I found a copy of Lost Odyssey today then the unable to play 1st disk issue I had with Gamestop/EB so had to return that years ago and they stopped selling PS3/360 so 3DS it is besides whatever 8th gen or Switch for me.
I need to get back into Blue Dragon again one of these days I probably got 1-2 chapters in. Some end up as just for the sake of the library collection, even if I do buy things to play them. But it depends how dedicated I get into them more than no interest. Unless it's a different version option like multiple Rhythm Heaven DS, PS3/360 of Enslaved, PS2 version when have Wii version of Legend of Spyro games (even though used to own Xbox OG New Beginning/I think Eternal Night was as well then PS3 of Dawn of the Dragon).
When I played Blue Dragon I didn't do much with FF13 or other turn based RPGs (was when I was getting into them, nowadays only Conception's 4 direction system got me more intrigued then most other typical turn based RPGs or just buying tactics games mostly instead because the character movement like a board game/other systems compel me more) at the time but did enjoy about halfway of Eternal Sonata with it's story and move and attack system in it's small arenas.
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