Octopath Traveler is the spiritual sequel to Final Fantasy VI

A new masterpiece on the horizon

Producer Takahashi spoke about Octopath Traveler and how Final Fantasy VI is his spiritual father in many ways.

A few days after his arrival, Takahashi and Nishiki published an interesting interview at GamesVideo's address, speaking in-depth about Octopath Traveler. The first words relate to their age in relation to the video game generation to which they had access.

The era of the great JRPG su SNES actually marked their career, bringing them long-time eager to develop a title of this kind. Despite the initial resistance of Square Enix their dreams became reality thanks to the early development of Bravely Default.

"In terms of mechanics, Bravely Default was the spiritual successor of Final Fantasy V, while we created Octopath as the spiritual successor of Final Fantasy VI"

The first thought of the development team was create an original title, a new IP with a new visual and original style .

"When the development of Octopath began, we created a demo exclusively in pixel art, out of date, including effects, but we realized immediately that it was better in our memories. preferred using current Unreal Engine technology to do things that were not possible at the time, such as lighting effects.In our opinion, it's a good mix between the two generations "

Final Fantasy and the series SaGa strongly influenced the two developers, who took these games as inspiration for the creation" For music, I was wondering if I should try to adapt to a global audience or to keep my style.And I thought about what one of my teachers would do, Nobuo Uematsu.And he, indeed , kept his style, he did not think to change but he kept his nature, and all my it's exactly what I did for Octopath Traveler, where I find my influences such as clbadical music or film music "

In summary, the pbadion of developers for Octopath Traveler now, and from the series Bravely Default first, breathe all the words spoken. The game will be available from July 13, 2018 exclusive to Nintendo Switch .

Source : GamesVideo