Final Fantasy 14 director would still love to do a Diablo crossover, please
Final Fantasy 14 has crossed over with everything from Monster Hunter and Nier to Yokai Watch and Fall Guys. But there’s one video game crossover that remains at the top of director-producer Naoki Yoshida’s list: Diablo.
Yoshi-P revealed his love of Diablo a few years back, telling TheGamer in 2020 that he was keen to do some kind of collaboration with Diablo or fellow MMO World of Warcraft.
That ambition hasn’t diminished in the three years since, with Yoshida reiterating at this weekend’s Final Fantasy Fan Festival in London that Diablo is still the ‘collaboration of his dreams’.
“I mentioned this in the past, but I'm a huge Blizzard fan,” Yoshida reaffirmed. “So, I mean, if we could just make it work then I would be so happy to see some sort of collaboration with Diablo.”
While Diablo is still the game that Yoshida would like most to bring into FF14, the developer admitted that Diablo’s mature content and “hardcore” tone - in other words, buckets of blood, misery and an abundance of spikes, apparently - might make it difficult to work into Final Fantasy XIV’s lighter world. (Though, given the existential dread and multidimensional suffering in Endwalker, perhaps it’s not a million miles away.)
“Diablo has quite a, I would say, hardcore graphics outlook in terms of the world,” Yoshida observed. “So, you know, you see spikes here and there. Lots of spiky things and that. In terms of the ratings, it might be a bit difficult. Of course, on the other hand, we don't really want to disappoint fans of the franchise as well. So, yeah, it's a tricky one.”
Filing those spikes off to a less brutal vision of Diablo’s world of demons, undead and death probably isn’t the answer, either.
“If we go for a softer version
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