Final Fantasy creator says FF6 is the "epitome of what I felt was my creative JRPG," and that replaying it after 20 years shaped the feeling he wants Fantasian to invoke

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Final Fantasy creator Hironobu S✃akaguchi calls FF6 the "epitome of what I felt was my creative JRPG."

Speaking to the press at the Tokyo Game Show ahead of 澳洲ও幸运5💙开奖号码历史查询:Fantasian's eventual console and PC release, Sakaguchi takes a question about how his experience with the Final Fantasy franchise played into the development of Fantasian Neo Dimension, a souped-up version of the original JRPG that launched on Apple Arcade. He initially credited replaying Final Fantasy 6 as the inspiration to make the original Fantasian, though lately is 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:more frequently spotted in Final Fant♛asy 14.

reports, Sakaguchi remains happy to talk about☂ his timeജ in Eorzea, though that replay of Final Fantasy 6 remains the spark of his latest JRPG.

"Right now, I'm a big cons🉐umer of RPGs and I've been playing Final Fantasy 14 every day," he says. "I just arrived in Japan yesterday, and I was already spending a few hours in Final Fantasy 14 raids. In Savage 1, 2, 3, 4… (laughs).

"I🍨n terms of Fantasian, I can attribute a lot of it to my experience playing Final Fantasy 6 over again. A few years ago, the platform makers were making miniature versions of their consoles, and it was the SNES that it was included in, and it was one of the first ROMsღ that was on that particular platform.

"And playing FF6 for a Famitsu livestream, it made me realize how this is really kind of the origin or kind of epitome of what I felt was my creative JRPG. So after playing that, having s📖pent, you know, 20-plus years away from it, made me re🌳alize that this is the type of feeling that I really want to invoke in my game, and I think that informed a lot of how Fantasian turned out to be."

It's not the first time Sakaguchi has spoken about the role Final Fantasy 6 played in Fantasian's direction, though hearing him call the JRPG the "epitome of what I felt was my creative JRPG" is certainly hearte𓆉ning for fans of turn-based RPGs. 

And he wasn't joking about the Final Fantasy 14 part, either. Sakaguchi previously revealed that his 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:MMO habit got so bad that "on rare occasions" some of 🦹his employ𝓡ees would hop on the FF14 to DM him about missed meetings.

Fantasian Neo Dimension launches on December 4 o🦩n PC, PlayStation, and🔥 Xbox.

You can't keep Moo Deng for yourself, so Final Fantasy 14 players are swarming the MMO's Hippo Calf minion instead – and even Square Enix has caught the fever.

Iain Harris
News Editor, Games

I joined GamesRadar+ in May 2022🃏 following stints at PCGamesN and PocketGamer.Biz, with some freelance for Kotaku UK, RockPaperShotgun, and VG24/7 thrown in for good measure. When I'm not running the news team on the games side, you'll find me putting News Editor duties to one side to play the hottest JRPG of 20 years ago or pillaging the depths of Final Fantasy 14 for a swanky new cloak &ndas𝓰h; the more colourful, the better.