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[Draugoth]

PlatinumGames and the studio behind Kingdom Hearts 4 have both revealed that they took part in the development of Final Fantasy 16.

The news was revealed during the Final Fantasy 16 Pre-Launch Celebration live stream held during Summer Game Fest.

In a video message, PlatinumGames president and CEO Atsushi Inaba said: “PlatinumGames was graced with the opportunity to develop a part of Final Fantasy 16.​

We’d never had an experience to work on a title in this manner, so it certainly took us by surprise when we were first approached.

But the development staff, myself included, were all extremely excited for this opportunity, saying things like ‘it’s the Final Fantasy’ and ‘we’ll never get another chance to work on Final Fantasy’. So we gladly accepted this opportunity and made it happen.

Takahisa Taura, who worked with Square Enix previously on Nier: Automata, led the development staff and the team on the PlatinumGames side. He powered through the development as leader of the team, and I’m confident that the part we handled ended up being high quality content.”

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Platinum Games is the go to if you can't handle sword action combat.

 

[Sub_Level]

Show me a good time, Clive.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

So we have DMC5's combat director and Neir Automata's dev team working on the same game?

EDIT: AND Kingdom Hearts 4's entire team!? GOTY debates are going to be wild this year.

 

[HazukiSensei]

More devs need to collaborate like this tbh. It would make dream games.

I think im buying ff16 with this information

 

[NeverYouMind]

Platinum's work is inconsistent in quality. Celebrations are a bit premature. At least let the demo speak for itself.

 

[Saber]

Didn't know.

This surelly gives alot of confidence in this game.

 

[March Climber]

More devs need to collaborate like this tbh. It would make dream games.

I think im buying ff16 with this information

For internal devs under one publisher, I agree. I thought I read somewhere that iD helped out with Starfield's combat a bit, and if so then it makes sense because it looked great.

For third party devs? It can only work if a really good dev(Platinum) is in constant struggle to stay afloat thus will help anyone and almost do anything to keep things running smoothly.

Platinum's work is inconsistent in quality. Celebrations are a bit premature. At least let the demo speak for itself.

I've only seen Platinum struggle before at mission design, storytelling, and world design. That's everything but the combat. Even with their worst offerings I never came away from it thinking they controlled awfully, they just didn't control like an A level Platinum game. A D level Platinum game would still do laps around some other western action games.

 

[DenchDeckard]

I wonder what part of the game they are talking about...

Now they have my attention..

 

[kuncol02]

PlatinumGames and the studio behind Kingdom Hearts 4 have both revealed that they took part in the development of Final Fantasy 16.

The news was revealed during the Final Fantasy 16 Pre-Launch Celebration live stream held during Summer Game Fest.

In a video message, PlatinumGames president and CEO Atsushi Inaba said: “PlatinumGames was graced with the opportunity to develop a part of Final Fantasy 16.​

Platinum also helped with StarFox Zero. It was still unplayable.

 

[Fake]

Hope this help.

 

[yurinka]

Nice move, good to see Platinum there.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Platinum also helped with StarFox Zero. It was still unplayable.

Star Fox Zero was flawed from conception. Who has the balls to tell Miyamoto "no"?

 

[YukiOnna]

I was wondering which KH team would be on it as both are busy (VII Remake and KH4) but it ended up being the entire KH4 team. Really assuring to learn.

 

[Labolas]

Alright this might be my goty, right here. Let's fucking go.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Cool some serious talent behind this game

 

[Doom85]

Star Fox Zero was flawed from conception. Who has the balls to tell Miyamoto "no"?

Miyamoto: For the record, I never said specifically to remove the story and character development from Paper Mario Sticker Star. I simply looked at the development team, asked, “does this game need a story?”, and then I guess the AC wasn’t working in their building or something because they all started sweating intensely…..

 

[Kumomeme]

im curious what kind of stuff KH team gonna learn and bring toward KH4 from this collaboration

 

[ProtoByte]

im curious what kind of stuff KH team gonna learn and bring toward KH4 from this collaboration

Hopefully not juggling-enemy combat design.

I think the KH inspiration is pretty clear. Shotlocks are hard to miss.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Alright this might be my goty, right here. Let's fucking go.

even if bad?

 

[Astral Dog]

They have the cream of the crop in action game design working on this title its gonna be one of the best FF

 

[Labolas]

even if bad?

If the combat is on point, then we good.

 

[peronmls]

Kingdom Hearts had really bad developers after 2. They struggle so much to bring anything interesting or rich to the table. KH3 is extremely underwhelming and lacks any polish that the PS2 devs did. Not excited about this one bit. All engine and no talent or passion. Seems to be what games are going for now and days.

 

[hyperbertha]

Thats not good news. No wonder the combat looks bad lmao.