Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida says game development is nearing completion

According to producer Naoki Yoshida, Final Fantasy XVI is nearing the end of development, but an RPG’s release date hasn’t been set yet.

Oddly enough, Yoshida’s disclosure of the development of FFXVI doesn’t happen through the usual channels like Twitter, press releases, or development update videos. Instead, as discovered by Twitter user alverich_ff14 and translated from Video Games Chronicle, it comes from a new interview with Yoshida in the free magazine currently available for free at Uniqlo stores in Japan.

This free magazine is related to the collaboration between Uniqlo and Square Enix. Uniqlo sells 16 different t-shirts based on one of the 16 major Final Fantasy games.

“The development of our latest title, Final Fantasy XVI, is in the final stages,” Yoshida told the magazine. “Final Fantasy XVI aims to integrate story and gaming experience into a single-player game. Unlike online, which depicts multiple players simultaneously, Final Fantasy XVI focuses on the individual. This makes the story more immersive. It’s a very tight story. As an adult, I learned about society and thought to myself, ‘Reality is not as easy as video games’. I want people who once left Final Fantasy to remember how passionate they were about video games at the time.”

As noted in VGC, Yoshida said last October that Square Enix was nearing the final stages of development, and earlier that year at the Tokyo Game Show, FFXVI’s development team was working on finishing the final side quest. game. In December 2021, Yoshida said that FFXVI news would come in the spring of 2022. The news hasn’t come out yet unless this free magazine is what he mentioned, but a new Final Fantasy 35th Anniversary website was launched last month that says it will give you information about upcoming titles.

While you wait for more news about FFXVI, read How FFXVI has an “extended” skill tree, then how FFXVI can get an easy mod.