At Square Enix, we don’t have oil, but what do we have for ideas! Especially when it comes to enjoying the audience’s endless love for the Final Fantasy series. And it’s not their recent overhaul that’s likely to change anything.
Despite the release of the first six episodes under the Pixel Remaster banner, the nostalgic feelings of some big names in the series do not seem to weaken, as producer Takashi Tokita, formerly a screenwriter and lead game designer on Final Fantasy IV, attests today. . The first opus to emerge on Super Famicom has indeed just undergone a nice makeover, and yet: Tokita believes that the account is not there.
Final Fantasy IV, young years
In an interview with our colleagues from Famitsu, the one who also participated in the Game Boy Advance and DS versions of Final Fantasy IV recalls that the story was extended in 2008 on mobiles with the additional episode The After Years, which took place 17 years after the lunar conclusion of the original adventure, and that many Westerners have been able to discover thanks to The Complete Collection on PSP.
It is precisely the absence of this epilogue in the very recent that grieves the producer:
I wish I could do a remake of The After Years someday, whether it’s a full 3D remake and dubbed like on DS, or a Pixel Remaster version. Not many people have been able to play it, and I would like them to be able to experience it on current platforms.
If Tokiat goes back in depth on the fascinating development of this episode (and we can only advise you to read this interview rich in anecdotes), he also takes the opportunity to reiterate his appeal to old gamers around the world, asking players to make the maximum noise so that Live-A-Live makes its return in the form of a Pixel Remaster, a wish he had already expressed last year. Nec plus ultra: he hopes to see other titles bow to the exercise, a prospect that will undoubtedly leave you dreaming certain …
At Square Enix, we don’t have oil, but what do we have for ideas! Especially when it comes to enjoying the audience’s endless love for the Final Fantasy series. And it’s not their recent overhaul that’s likely to change anything.
Despite the release of the first six episodes under the Pixel Remaster banner, the nostalgic feelings of some big names in the series do not seem to weaken, as producer Takashi Tokita, formerly a screenwriter and lead game designer on Final Fantasy IV, attests today. . The first opus to emerge on Super Famicom has indeed just undergone a nice makeover, and yet: Tokita believes that the account is not there.
Final Fantasy IV, young years
In an interview with our colleagues from Famitsu, the one who also participated in the Game Boy Advance and DS versions of Final Fantasy IV recalls that the story was extended in 2008 on mobiles with the additional episode The After Years, which took place 17 years after the lunar conclusion of the original adventure, and that many Westerners have been able to discover thanks to The Complete Collection on PSP.
It is precisely the absence of this epilogue in the very recent that grieves the producer:
I wish I could do a remake of The After Years someday, whether it’s a full 3D remake and dubbed like on DS, or a Pixel Remaster version. Not many people have been able to play it, and I would like them to be able to experience it on current platforms.
If Tokiat goes back in depth on the fascinating development of this episode (and we can only advise you to read this interview rich in anecdotes), he also takes the opportunity to reiterate his appeal to old gamers around the world, asking players to make the maximum noise so that Live-A-Live makes its return in the form of a Pixel Remaster, a wish he had already expressed last year. Nec plus ultra: he hopes to see other titles bow to the exercise, a prospect that will undoubtedly leave you dreaming certain …
At Square Enix, we don’t have oil, but what do we have for ideas! Especially when it comes to enjoying the audience’s endless love for the Final Fantasy series. And it’s not their recent overhaul that’s likely to change anything.
Despite the release of the first six episodes under the Pixel Remaster banner, the nostalgic feelings of some big names in the series do not seem to weaken, as producer Takashi Tokita, formerly a screenwriter and lead game designer on Final Fantasy IV, attests today. . The first opus to emerge on Super Famicom has indeed just undergone a nice makeover, and yet: Tokita believes that the account is not there.
Final Fantasy IV, young years
In an interview with our colleagues from Famitsu, the one who also participated in the Game Boy Advance and DS versions of Final Fantasy IV recalls that the story was extended in 2008 on mobiles with the additional episode The After Years, which took place 17 years after the lunar conclusion of the original adventure, and that many Westerners have been able to discover thanks to The Complete Collection on PSP.
It is precisely the absence of this epilogue in the very recent that grieves the producer:
I wish I could do a remake of The After Years someday, whether it’s a full 3D remake and dubbed like on DS, or a Pixel Remaster version. Not many people have been able to play it, and I would like them to be able to experience it on current platforms.
If Tokiat goes back in depth on the fascinating development of this episode (and we can only advise you to read this interview rich in anecdotes), he also takes the opportunity to reiterate his appeal to old gamers around the world, asking players to make the maximum noise so that Live-A-Live makes its return in the form of a Pixel Remaster, a wish he had already expressed last year. Nec plus ultra: he hopes to see other titles bow to the exercise, a prospect that will undoubtedly leave you dreaming certain …
At Square Enix, we don’t have oil, but what do we have for ideas! Especially when it comes to enjoying the audience’s endless love for the Final Fantasy series. And it’s not their recent overhaul that’s likely to change anything.
Despite the release of the first six episodes under the Pixel Remaster banner, the nostalgic feelings of some big names in the series do not seem to weaken, as producer Takashi Tokita, formerly a screenwriter and lead game designer on Final Fantasy IV, attests today. . The first opus to emerge on Super Famicom has indeed just undergone a nice makeover, and yet: Tokita believes that the account is not there.
Final Fantasy IV, young years
In an interview with our colleagues from Famitsu, the one who also participated in the Game Boy Advance and DS versions of Final Fantasy IV recalls that the story was extended in 2008 on mobiles with the additional episode The After Years, which took place 17 years after the lunar conclusion of the original adventure, and that many Westerners have been able to discover thanks to The Complete Collection on PSP.
It is precisely the absence of this epilogue in the very recent that grieves the producer:
I wish I could do a remake of The After Years someday, whether it’s a full 3D remake and dubbed like on DS, or a Pixel Remaster version. Not many people have been able to play it, and I would like them to be able to experience it on current platforms.
If Tokiat goes back in depth on the fascinating development of this episode (and we can only advise you to read this interview rich in anecdotes), he also takes the opportunity to reiterate his appeal to old gamers around the world, asking players to make the maximum noise so that Live-A-Live makes its return in the form of a Pixel Remaster, a wish he had already expressed last year. Nec plus ultra: he hopes to see other titles bow to the exercise, a prospect that will undoubtedly leave you dreaming certain …
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