Final Fantasy Resonance: Nice palette cleanser after Fire Emblem. Story and gameplay was fun enough but compared to Team Asano’s last gacha repurpose, OT0, it left me wanting… The only thing I want to see pulled forward to their future games is this game’s cutscene direction
Fire Emblem Fortune’s Weave: Done after 313 hours. By far the largest RPG I have ever played and yet feels incomplete at times with multiple plot threads unexplored or dropped. I intend to replay one of my heroes paths but will do so once the dlc is released
As a Team Asano fan, this interview was extremely enlightening! Asano has a lot more power within the company than I thought and is on his way to becoming what Sakaguchi was for Squaresoft during the 90s
AAA = filler? Got it
The same company he's a part of released a remake of Romancing Saga 2 that overhauled the visuals and refined the turn based gameplay of the original yet stayed completely faithful content wise and didn't have to spread itself out over a trilogy
Naoki “Yoshi-P” Yoshida says fans shouldn’t expect remakes of Final Fantasy VI, VIII, or IX to follow the same path as Final Fantasy VII Remake.
Speaking during Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival 2026, he explained that remaking any of those classic games to modern AAA standards would be an enormous project.
Each could need four or even five separate releases due to the content that would have to be rebuilt and expanded.
Recreating them at the same level as FFVII Remake would take years and massive resources.
Way to leave out the preceding comment where the shareholder is praising Elliot. Instead your tweet gives off the impression of the opposite which is pretty disgusting. This is something I’d expect from a game journalist…
Square Enix President Takashi Kiryu told shareholders that launching The Adventures of Elliot was a challenge:
"Launching The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales was a challenge, especially in an environment where creating new IPs is seen as difficult.
We will make sure to share the views of our shareholders and fans to the team, including Creative Studio Head Tomoya Asano."
At the Square Enix Shareholders meeting, one shareholder told Square Enix how much they have been enjoying The Adventures of Elliot!
Q: ... Please pass along to the development team that my children and I are thoroughly enjoying “The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales,” which was released last week.
A: ... Launching “The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales” was a challenge, especially in an environment where creating new IPs is seen as difficult. We will make sure to share the views of our shareholders and fans to the team, including a Creative Studio Head Tomoya Asano.
@Genki_JPN Seeing Team Asano and Tomoya Asano specifically stock rising within the company over the years is awesome. His games have always been seen as lesser compared to the AAA games where SE fans praise YoshiP or Hamaguchi and dismiss everything else
Compared to previous HD-2D games, the camera work is on another level. Seeing how each Team Asano game builds upon one another has been a delight for me over the years. I wouldn’t dare post spoilers but Dragon Quest 2’s remake ending walked so Elliot’s True Ending could run
Adventures of Elliot: 100% took me 50 hours. Team Asano’s first Action RPG is one for the books. Perfect example of executing a simple concept to a sheen. More so than any of their previous games, the story build up and payoff to all of the setups in the True Ending floored me
@FfMeryll @CyberKevin_FR @Genki_JPN I get what you’re saying but saying it’s not a dev team is so dishonest and misleading. There’s a reason they’re an internal team at SE. They come up with the concept, art, design and shepherd the entire process. They don’t just outsource everything and call it a day
@Genki_JPN Wonder why Capcom kept the OG release date for Switch 2 only in Japan. Trying to get out of Tomodachi Life's way which is has its biggest market there perhaps?
Why is this becoming news now? This has been the case for 15+ years since they became legit
I'm not defending bad translations but the narrative people are wanting to push using "new" information is hilarious
Crunchyroll is unavailable in Japan due to licensing restrictions.
This geo-block means Japanese audiences never see the Western-localized versions of anime, where subtitles are often rewritten, content is censored, and dubs are altered without anyone noticing the changes.
… and nothing would change. This isn’t a negative by any means but I just had to correct the public’s perceptions about that particular point. Don’t wanna end on a negative note so here’s some screenshots of Rudy and co.
Monster Hunter Stories 3: Done
Enjoyed my time with it but there is one thing I need to get off my chest in regards to the discourse I saw when reviews came out. I was seeing was how Stories finally “grew up” due to the cast this time consisting of adults but… 1/2
… make no mistake, the storytelling is still the Shonen adventure you come to expect. This is not the “mature” story reviewers/YTers would have you believe. In fact, the “childish” tropes stick out even more at times. The cast could easily be young teens like 2…