I repeat, does not mention Vagrant Story
Final Fantasy 16andFinal Fantasy 14boss Naoki Yoshida hastold The Gamerthat he reckons “It’s probably about time,” for a newFinal Fantasy Tacticsgame.
The hint at some long term wish fulfillment came up during an interview with The Gamer’s Gabrielle Castania, in which Naoki ‘Yoshi-P’ Yoshida spoke aboutFinal Fantasy16’s upcoming The Rising Tide DLC, alongside DLC director Takeo Kujiraoka and localisation director Michael-Christoper Koji Fox.
When asked whether the team thought FF16 would work as a jumping off point for a new Tactics title, Yoshida replied:
“We have a lot of our staff who worked on previous games like Final Fantasy Tactics or Final Fantasy 12, so you’re going to have a lot of that [Tactics] feel because a lot of the same people are on the team…We’re very happy for you to suggest this because we’re all fans, but if we were going to make this, we wouldn’t want to do the same story that turns out to be a different story.”
“But the series does lend itself well to that kind of storytelling, and we love Tactics as well," he added later. “It’s probably about time that we do a new one.”
Final Fantasy Tactics, likeFinal Fantasy XIIand parts of Final Fantasy 14, is set in the world of Ivalice. Ivalice is a gritty, politically tense, medieval setting, similar to 16’s - hence, I imagine, The Gamer’s pertinent question. Do you know whichotherneglected Square PS1 game wasalsoset in Ivalice? C’mon Yoshi-P. Do it for me. Do it for us. Give us a Vagrant Story remaster. It is time. FF fans just gotFinal Fantasy VII Rebirth. They’ve been eating good enough already. Vagrant Story fans? Emaciated.
