Legendary 'Father of Final Fantasy' Returns to Make One Last Game | Push Square

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Hironubu Sakaguchi, the legendary «father of Final Fantasy», isn't done with game development just yet. While the first-on-mobile JRPG, now on PS5 and PS4, Fantasian Neo Dimension was supposed to be his last game, it seems he's got one more grand adventure in him, and he's shooting for the stars; Sakaguchi says he intends to create something that can be considered a «successor to Final Fantasy VI».

Speaking to The Verge (thanks, PC Gamer), Sakaguchi said that the process of working on Fantasian was so much fun that he «found it hard to part ways» with the development team at Mistwalker, since discovering he still has more to give: «Humans are greedy creatures, aren’t we? For that reason, I’m currently working on a new project with the same team that worked on Fantasian Neo Dimension».

Of course, we shouldn't expect to learn anything concrete for some time. Still, Sakaguchi said that what comes next will be familiar to fans of his work: «It’s generally going to follow a similar style to my previous works, and it’ll be something that can be a successor to Final Fantasy VI in a good way—our goal is to create something old but new at the same time. It’ll be part two of my farewell note.»

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Are you immediately activated by the mention of Final Fantasy VI from Sakaguchi-san, which was probably the plan all along? Patiently begin to wait in the comments section below.

Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With six years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.

I will always appreciate Sakaguchi for Lost Odyssey.

Fantasian was good, but Lost Odyssey was completely on another level. I’m really hoping this next one will be more like Lost Odyssey in grandeur and quality. I wonder if by