Hironobu Sakaguchi weighs in on FFVI Mobile's Success

[coffee-san]

Was an interesting read. Article here for those interested.

 

[Sora96]

Does this mean the iOS & Android versions outsold the SNES version?

 

[APZonerunner]

It's not like Sakaguchi has access to the sales figures, but I'm sure he's referring to the general feel among the fanbase, where if you poll Western FF fans now FF6 will consistently track near the top despite the fact the original release didn't sell any better than 1/4.

 

[buddhafied]

Consider how much advertising FFVI received back then, I am surprised it didn't do too well either. I, for one, rent and then bought the game due to advertisement in GamePro and EGM. Although back then, JRPG was (and I argue that it is still) a rather niche market. VI was truly the best though.

 

[Squirrel Emperor]

Cult classic. A bunch of SNES JRPG's are.

Square Enix really needs to take a strong second look at both Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger. They're considered to be some of the best SNES games, best JRPGs and best videogames of all time. Always high on the charts.

 

[Sora96]

Cult classic. A bunch of SNES JRPG's are.

Square Enix really needs to take a strong second look at both Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger. They're considered to be some of the best SNES games, best JRPGs and best videogames of all time. Always high on the charts.

Well to do so, and do so right you'd really need original staff. I doubt Kitase wants to produce 2 or 3 remakes right now. And as for Ito, well he's probably producing XII HD right now and working on XVI and if anything is to happen with IX it's kinda up to him. Tokita could do Chrono but he's in love with mobile. There's Akihiko Matsui but right now he might be too busy with the MMOs.

 

[Squirrel Emperor]

Both games were great so therefore the original teams should be involved in a Final Fantasy VI remake and new Chrono game in order for them to be great?

Did Peter Jackson need J. R. R. Tolkien in order to make The Lord of the Rings movies great? No. He just needed the books, the original source material. He couldn't use J. R. R. Tolkien's guiding hand because he's dead. Same can be said about a Final Fantasy VI remake. The original staff is not needed but the source material, the game itself, is.

The quality of the remake comes down to finding the right people for the job. That does not just mean the original team but a team that consists of capable people who are fit for the job. As Peter Jackson is a fan of The Lord of the Rings books, it'd probably help to have some guys who are fans of Final Fantasy VI working on the remake too. I mean... Who wants a bunch of people to be in charge of a remake of a mainline entry they have no interest in?

Same can be said about Chrono too. The dream team for Trigger and the original Cross team aren't needed. What is needed I think is a good development team that consists of people who have interest in the Chrono IP.