Tabata says that he's been thinking about a sequel to The 3rd Birthday, the game he directed before Type-0. However, he believes that Square Enix policy will require that he work on somehting else -- specifically, a new entry in the subseries spawned by Type-0. In fact, a framework for a sequel in the "Type" series is already being worked on, he said.
If we were to take one of the past Final Fantasy titles and make a sequel to it, I think that would be a lot more challenging because when they were on PlayStation and PlayStation 2 their actual game volume was a lot bigger, kind of. Graphically they weren't as advanced as they are now, but there were lots of towns and worlds and cities and whatever. So if we were to recreate the same kind of game - sequel or not - with the same volume, but give it a much higher level of graphical quality, it would us take three times, four times, even ten times longer to make such a game. So making a sequel for an old game would be a lot more challenging.
So if we were to pursue the same graphical quality, somehow we would have to make adjustments about game volume in the world, we'd have to cut down certain areas, but if we did that our fans would probably be not very happy, so we have to achieve both goals so that if we ever decide to either remake VII or make a sequel for hi-def consoles, we're going to have to be very, very careful.Перевожу: "раньше мы делали большие игры, там была куча городов и локаций, а сейчас мы делаем мелкое линейное говно, потому что too much work, и если бы мы сейчас делали фф7, она была бы кастрированным дебилом".
Final Fantasy X was quite a serious game as opposed to X-2 which was really poppy, sort of casual kind of game, we were aiming for a Charlie's Angels feel, if you like, with these three girls travelling together having these adventures.Тут я сделал передышку минут на десять и подумал, какими словами я еще не называл этих людей. Нет, правда, я больше не могу, сил ругаться больше нет.
But when we decided to make a sequel to XIII I decided not to go for the same sort of drastic style change - that would be quite negative, we thought. The initial scenario, when it was brought to me, had Serah as the only protagonist, travelling with Moogle as a companion, and their conversation was quite girly, almost camp and a bit over the top and I thought: "OK, that shift is a bit like the one from X to X-2". It's a bit dangerous, so we decided to introduce Noel as another male protagonist, so that we kept the serious tone of XIII but added a few new factors.
The main difference between the two titles is that in Chrono Trigger, you go back to one point in the past and you do this and that, and those changes could impact on the future. You can't really interact with what happens in the future.
But in XIII-2 because of this new feature called Historia Crux, the player can choose a location and time that they want to play by themselves. They get to make the choice about which area or era they want to explore. OK, you've played this world and that world, your characters are now a lot stronger, more powerful and all the rest of it, and then you can revisit some of the times and locations you completed before, except now as a more progressed character - which can sometimes help you find different time-gates, so that you can actually go back and go through and take a different route to another different time and location. So it opens the door to lots of different things you can explore. That's how we have advanced from Chrono Trigger, if you like.
Final Fantasy XIII-2 has 210,000 preorders, compared to 785,000 for Final Fantasy XIII on November 22, 2009 ahead of its December 17 launch. The preorder pace for Final Fantasy XIII-2 is accelerating, but even with pretty large preorder growth its looking like Final Fantasy XIII-2 will end up with about 350,000-400,000 preorders on the eve of launch. Final Fantasy XIII by comparison had 1,100,000 preoders on the eve of its launch in 2009.Торияма рассказал про фф13-2:
Currently the drop off looks to be from 1.50m (FFXIII) to 0.50m (FFXIII-2) which would be historically bad for a main Final Fantasy console game.
The game's story is split into chapters, each taking about 2 to 3 hours. It appears that one of the goals was to make the chapters fit right into your daily schedule.Напоминаю, что это значит: каждые полчаса герои будут повторять, куда они идут и зачем, и онечан таскете, как будто они только что этого не говорили. Информация из первых уст, да, от человека, игравшего в 13-2.
Mitsuto Suzuki worked techno pop and other modern tastes into his contributions.The vocal pieces from the original were apparently well received, so they've done more of this for the sequelАвтор бездарного недоэлектронного говна из The 3rd Birthday наносит ответный удар. Also more Leona Lewis.
The puzzles you encounter as part of the story aren't too difficult, but the optional puzzles include some so difficult that Toriyama himself can't clear them.Претендует на хэштег нашего президента, очевидно. Сложно быть мужиком, да?
Lightning was the main character in Final Fantasy XIII and she was a very cool and strong minded girl, who didn't show much emotion. For Final Fantasy XIII-2 we wanted to add a male character on top of Serah, and Noel, he looks quite mainstream and boyish type of character, but I want him to be a strong character in a different way compared to Lightning. And so we came up with this character.Ехал гитлер через гитлер, часть два. Ебвный хуй прямо говорит, что клепают мэйнстрим сраный. Чтоб за ними всеми ночью пришел Борщ фон Ронсенбург из Колбаски.
In Final Fantasy XIII-2 is not like if you do something in the past that would have a consequence in a future world in small aspects such as treasure chests and small items in the environment - it doesn't really work for that. The main thing, for example, is that at the beginning of the story Lightning is missing and if you don't do something Cocoon will be devastated even further or even the entire universe may be completely destroyed. You have to work on the main story line to avoid this undiserable eventuality from happening.You have to SAAAAAAVE the WOOOOORLD, ага. Ну и да, естественно, все на рельсах, неужто кто-то подумал, что будет хоть какая-то нелинейность в плане сюжета?
We just wanted to make the battles more tactical and in order to achieve that we thought the best way would be to recruit more than 150 types of monsters.Йей, вместо того, чтобы чинить дебильную боёвку, они решили сделать третьего члена команды ущербным говном! ТАКТИКА
The current generation console, Final Fantasy XIII, was obviously the first game, and personally I think we took a little too long getting it out. When you think of Western triple A titles like Call of Duty, Battlefield, and Assassin's Creed, they seem to work with a lot shorter turnaround - they make a new game in 1-2 years. That is something we need to follow up, because that seems to be the best way to keep our fans interested and attracted to the franchise.Как сделать так, чтобы от вас не сбегали фанаты? Уволить Мотому Торияму? Нееееееееееет, отвечает повар, надо просто штамповать финалочки каждый год!
When it comes to graphical standard, game volume and [creating a] big story, we were quite satisfied. I think we did a good job.Если еще у кого-то есть вопросы насчет того, пидарас ли Китасе, можете их забыть поскорее.
The game came out in Japan, and even in Japan lots of gamers thought it was a bit too linear. The nature of the internet age means that in the country the game is released in first, if anyone has an opinion that will be worldwide the day after - obviously through blogs and forums. So gamers outside of Japan, who hadn't played the game yet, might have had some kind of preconceptions which might have led to a bit of overreactionНу вы поняли, да? Во всем виноваты японцы, которые пошли в интернет срать про линейность фф13.
We took those criticisms fully on board. We wanted to enable each player to have a pro-active attitude in terms of creating their own story, if you like, rather than just accepting whatever's given to you, passivelyПока каждому игроку не дадут заряженный пистолет и Торияму рядом, ничего проактивного не будет, и все будут ровно так же жрать линейное говно. Не, ну серьезно, как можно АКТИВНО воспринимать уже то говно, что в трейлерах было?
Basically the player can choose his or her own time or location that they want to play. So you could jump 200 or 300 years later, even 500 years later. You can choose where you want to warp to, and things will subsequently branch out; you can take different routes before you come to the ending"You are free to do as we tell you", ага. Пойди, полугяй по разным местам, ведь теперь у нас появился ГЕЙМПЛЕЙ БОЖЕ МОЙ ГЕЙМПЛЕЙ НАСЛАЖДАЙСЯ ИМ ЭТО ДЕЛАЕТ ВСЁ НЕЛИНЕЙНЫМ!!1
