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The Last Story is a very Sakaguchi-like title, says FFXIII producer

Posted Feb 18, 2010 at 9:00AM EST by Karl B.

Listed in: Wii Tags: final fantasy xiii, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Mistwalker, Square Enix, the last story, Yoshinori Kitase

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The Last Story. Final Fantasy. Anybody see a pattern here? The similarities between the titles of Hironobu Sakaguchi's new Wii-exclusive RPG and Square Enix's giant franchise might have perked up the ears of some, but not the Final Fantasy XIII team.

"I had heard that Sakaguchi was thinking of a title like this so it wasn't much of a surprise to me," producer Yoshinori Kitase told Kotaku. "I don't really feel like the name The Last Story really overlaps with Final Fantasy because Sakaguchi-san probably just wanted a simple straightforward title that Japanese users can pick up and understand."

"It's a very Sakaguchi-san-like title," Kitase added. Sakaguchi was the brains behind the first Final Fantasy and went on to direct the next four entries in the series. He then moved on to producing before leaving Square and starting Mistwalker in 2004.

Via [Kotaku]

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In my opinion I loved both Lost Odyessy and Blue Dragon. They do follow the traditional JRPG style but they still made the games fun. LO wasn't perfect but I really loved BD.

I don't care what Sakaguchi titles his games. IF the games are better than what square has been releasing lately I'll be happy.

A lot of people are going to hate me for saying this but I feel Kitase ruined Final Fantasy. He was right the series needed to evolve but instead of doing that he changed the entire play style.

Turn based combat was never a problem for me. I prefer a JRPG be turned based. The issue I always had was random encounters. This day and age it's just lazy for them to still use these.
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Mistwalker is guilty of this as well.

I hope FFXIII will be good. I liked xII but it really wasn't a FF game. It was more of a cool spin off(I liked it just don't consider it a true FF)

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