Have any plans this evening? Now you do.
Can you tell that a new Final Fantasy is on the way? The new mainline entry in the series that is Square Enix’s golden goose is imminent, and the Japanese publisher has the whole crew out on the PR trail. Final Fantasy 16 is out next month on consoles, though sadly us PC players will have to wait a little longer, so we’re feasting on crumbs (like wondering whether to drop the number entirely) while waiting for that release date for the PC version they’ve announced but pretended they didn’t announce.
One of the oddest tidbits comes courtesy of an interview with producer Naoki Yoshida, better-known as Yoshi-P, a man who’s often amusing to watch chiding the naughtier fans of Final Fantasy 14 or baking cookies. Final Fantasy 16 is aiming for that chimera of broader appeal, which of course means all things to all people, but in this case meant that Square Enix’s Japanese developers focused on fantasies that are currently popular in the western world.
