For just a few years now, we’ve heard Remaining Fantasy XVI is impressed by HBO’s Sport of Thrones, and through my cowl story journey to Tokyo, Japan, to talk with Artistic Enterprise Unit III, I discovered extra about this. Particularly, and maybe critically, I discovered that the workforce was impressed by the primary 4 seasons of Sport of Thrones. Or at the least, that’s the place it began.
“Proper across the begin of the sport’s improvement again once we’re in that early interval is true about when [Season 4 of Game of Thrones on HBO] was airing,” FFXVI producer Naoki Yoshida tells me. “We had seen it develop into this tv present that was liked world wide, not simply by older generations however youthful generations as effectively. So we purchased the Blu-Ray field of Seasons 1, 2, 3, and 4, and made everybody on the workforce watch it principally to get throughout to builders that that is what’s trending on the earth – that that is the kind of fantasy that persons are having fun with.”
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The Iron Kingdom
However Yoshida says the workforce took nice warning to keep away from FFXVI feeling like a carbon copy of Sport of Thrones. Whereas its inspirations are clear, it looks like its personal factor after taking part in and watching the sport for roughly 5 hours. Plus, with every thing else happening within the sport – particularly the Eikon vs. Eikon fight – the workforce drew on different sources of inspiration like Assault on Titan, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Godzilla, Ultraman, and extra.
Not solely does Sport of Thrones encourage the story and world really feel of Remaining Fantasy XVI, but it surely additionally conjures up a number of its visible type, based on artwork director Hiroshi Minagawa.
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Remaining Fantasy XVI Artwork Director Hiroshi Minagawa
“Once I joined the workforce and spoke with Takai-san concerning the general look of the sport, we had that broad stroke that we wished to have one thing that’s going to have that Sport of Thrones really feel, that sort of pure customary excessive fantasy that you simply’d see in that kind of program and visible medium,” he tells me.
Whereas individuals at present nonetheless argue the place Sport of Thrones started to falter, you’d be hard-pressed to search out somebody who thinks the reply is someplace in these first 4 seasons. These episodes are implausible tv, and if FFXVI’s tackle fantasy comes near rivaling them, we could possibly be in for one thing particular. Fortuitously, we don’t have too wait lengthy as a result of FFXVI hits PlayStation 5 on June 22.
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