PlatinumGames and Kingdom Hearts team assisted with Final Fantasy XVI
On Sunday night Square Enix hosted a Final Fantasy XVI pre-launch celebration stream. Early in the stream, fans were presented with two special video clips, featuring some of the high-ranking personnel connected to both developer PlatinumGames and to Square Enix’ RPG franchise Kingdom Hearts.
The first was from PlatinumGames Inc. President and CEO/Studio Head Atushi Inaba.
“PlatinumGames was graced with the opportunity to develop a part of Final Fantasy XVI. We’d never had an experience to work on a title in this manner, so it certainly took us by surprise when we were first approached. But the development staff — myself included, were all extremely excited for this opportunity, saying things like, ‘it’s the Final Fantasy‘ and ‘we’ll never get another chance to work on Final Fantasy.’ So we gladly accepted this opportunity and made it happen.
Takahisa Taura, who worked with Square Enix previously on NieR: Automata, led the development staff and the team on the PlatinumGames side. He powered through thee development as leader of the team, and I’m confident that the part we handled ended up being a high quality content.
We were able to work on Final Fantasy XVI with excitement as creators, but we only partially handled the development, so we’re also looking forward to playing the content as individual fans, just like those that are watching this video. And so, I am looking forward to enjoying the fantastic world of Final Fantasy XVI as both a creator and a fan.
Our sincerest congratulations!“
Immediately following the first clip, a second was played featuring the Co-Director of Kingdom Hearts IV, Tai Yasue.
“Hello everyone! I’m Tai Yasue, Co-Director of Kingdom Hearts IV. I’m happy to announce that, in fact, the Kingdom
Read more on destructoid.com
