Octopath Traveler is the "spiritual successor of the FFVI"

Masashi Takahashi, the producer of Octopath Traveler said that the game is underway developed as a spiritual successor to Final Fantasy VI .

In an interview with Jeuxvideo.com at the Japan Expo in France, Takahashi and Yasunori Nishiki, composer of Octopath Both men grew up playing the clbadic JRPG of the SNES and wanted to reach a level of play that met the standards on which they had been raised.

Takahashi spoke in detail of how Final Fantasy VI specifically affected the main aspects of design and mechanics in Octopath:

"We wanted to work on a new IP and it was important for us to have visual style of impact that would appeal to the players.In terms of game mechanics, if we had conceived Bravely Default as an evolution of Final Fantasy V we created Octopath Traveler as an evolution of the Final Fantasy VI . "

When the project was just starting, the developers of Octopath made a demo exclusively with pixel art, but found that this style was "more beautiful in their memories". This revelation is at the origin of the recognizable visual pixel and 3D blend seen in the game's demos and trailers.

Nishiki also explained how similar influences helped him compose the soundtrack of the game: "For music, I was wondering how to try to adapt to a global audience or if I had to keep my style.Then I asked myself:" What is it? 39, one of my elders, Nobuo Uematsu (of the fame of composition Final Fantasy ), did? "And he, precisely, kept his style."

Octopath was intended for people in their thirties and forties to try to target an audience familiar with the clbadic JRPGs.

The reactions to the demonstrations up to here have been extremely positive, with the first demo receiving 1.5 million Download