Final Fantasy XIIImasterminds Yoshinori Kitase and Motomu Toriyama have stated that they’d be very interested in doing a direct sequel toFinal Fantasy XIII, though they’re waiting to see how well the current game does in the West before dreaming up aXIII-2.
“In the past three years we worked both on the world and on the various systems,” says Kitase. “Creating these systems isn’t very glamorous and can frankly be a bit boring. If we could do aXIII-2, we could direct all our attention to the story and refine what we have already built.”
That would be nice. It seems, withXIII, that they spent so long working on pretty colors and a battle system so inherently contrived that it needs to play itself for you, that they forgot what an RPG should be about — the story. As for a possibleFinal Fantasy XV? Again, it all depends on howXIIIdoes.
We do not know if there will be aXV. This depends a lot on the success ofXIII. Also, it is difficult to pinpoint elements that are typicalFinal Fantasy. They are mostly invisible: part of the DNA of the game, that everyone recognizes as typicalFinal Fantasy. But ifthere is aXV, I hope the way we wrote our characters carries over. We strived to create believable people of flesh and blood. They are not robots. And they are not super heroes. I hope this humanity is something we will see again.”
The trouble with your “real” characters though, is that they’re simply not remarkable. I’d take a sentient cat puppet that rides on the back of a Moogle over characters that have nothing outstanding about their personality at all.
Kitase wants to do FFXIII-2 and responds to Western critics[WriteAboutGames]
