For just a few years now, we’ve heard Last Fantasy XVI is impressed by HBO’s <em>Recreation of Thrones</em>, and through my cowl story journey to Tokyo, Japan, to talk with Artistic Enterprise Unit III, I realized extra about this. Particularly, and maybe critically, I realized that the workforce was impressed by the primary 4 seasons of <em>Recreation of Thrones</em>. Or at the very least, that’s the place it began.
“Proper across the begin of the sport’s improvement again after we’re in that early interval is correct 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 beloved around the globe, 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 individuals 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 Recreation 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 all the things else occurring within the recreation – 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 Recreation of Thrones encourage the story and world really feel of Last Fantasy XVI, nevertheless it additionally evokes loads of its visible model, in accordance with artwork director Hiroshi Minagawa.
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Last Fantasy XVI Artwork Director Hiroshi Minagawa
“Once I joined the workforce and spoke with Takai-san in regards to the total look of the sport, we had that broad stroke that we wished to have one thing that’s going to have that Recreation of Thrones really feel, that form of pure normal excessive fantasy that you simply’d see in that kind of program and visible medium,” he tells me.
Whereas folks at present nonetheless argue the place Recreation 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 unbelievable tv, and if FFXVI’s tackle fantasy comes near rivaling them, we may very well 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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