With the discharge of the Rising Tide DLC on April 18, Closing Fantasy XVI’s story will lastly be over. Whereas that doesn’t imply Sq. Enix is finished engaged on the challenge (a PC port remains to be within the works), it does imply followers are curious as to what the staff will do subsequent and if we’ll ever see the sport’s world and characters once more. In an interview with The Gamer, producer Naoki Yoshida mentioned the thought of spinoffs, particularly, Closing Fantasy Techniques, and Yoshida mentioned it’s about time that spinoff made a comeback.
Closing Fantasy Techniques is a beloved 1997 tactical RPG spinoff of Sq. Enix’s sequence. The Gamer requested Yoshida about making a Techniques recreation set in FF16’s world of Valisthea. Yoshida and the FF16 staff are followers of Techniques, however he doesn’t assume FF16’s world would make an excellent match for the grid-based techniques fight. “How would we even do the Eikon versus Eikon battles in that type?” Yoshida requested, “You probably have the Eikons, what number of squares is an Eikon going to be?” Although the tactical strategy gained’t work in FF16’s world, Yoshida did say that “it’s in all probability about time that we do a brand new one.”That’s a sentiment shared by followers of the spinoff sequence, who’ve been extremely vocal about wanting Techniques to make a comeback.
The FF16 staff engaged on a Techniques recreation wouldn’t be an absurd concept, as lots of its members are veterans of Techniques. That features Kazutoyo Maehiro, artistic director of FF16 and planner on Techniques, in addition to Hiroshi Minigawa, who was artwork director for each video games. Yoshida has additionally labored with Techniques director Yasumi Matsuno up to now, with Matsuno contributing to Closing Fantasy XIV’s Shadowbringer and Endwalker enlargement, specifically the Techniques-inspired Return to Ivalice raids.
Nonetheless there hasn’t been any phrase on the spinoff sequence making a comeback. Within the meantime, Yoshida ought to comply with Matsuno’s personal recommendation and simply go play Unicorn Overlord.