The success of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has sparked many a dialogue on-line relating to whether or not or not the mainline Ultimate Fantasy video games ought to return to turn-based fight or proceed on with action-based fight. Talking to Anime New Community, Ultimate Fantasy producer Naoki Yoshida, stated there’s no clear-cut reply. Mr. Yoshida, went on to clarify that there are numerous various things at play relying on how the sport is formed and the narrative that the staff needs to inform shoppers. Right here’s what he stated:
“With this query of turn-based versus motion, it tends to isolate the gameplay to simply the battle system. That doesn’t consider what sort of sport the creators wish to ship to gamers. For instance, primarily based on a sure graphical high quality we wish to current to our gamers, or the narrative we wish to ship to our gamers, it pertains to how we arrange the sport’s programs round it. This consists of the battle system, sport design, and gameplay really feel. It’s not a clear-cut reply, whether or not it’s going to develop into all turn-based, or if it’s going to develop into extra action-based.
“[I’m] not essentially going to be on Ultimate Fantasy 17, so we additionally don’t wish to hinder or restrict our future director or whomever might be producing the video games like 17 and even 18,” Yoshida continued. “We don’t wish to put them on a rail.”
