During the Paris Games Week the french site FF Dream interviewed Julien Merceron from SE. I' m too lazy to translate the whole thing so here' s a summary : - Vs XIII : He agrees with Wada to describe its situation as "ongoing" because the project is extremely ambitious, but he thinks that when it will finally be shown people will realize that the wait was worth it. (Yeah, the usual marketing brush under the rug, but given how much expectations that game raises I figured I should translate this anyway). - Lightning Returns : The interviewer said that game seems very different from the previous XIII and asked if it was build from a VS XIII prototype this time around. Julien Merceron answered that his assumption is correct (in terms of technology, not of gameplay). From a creative perspective the game, though sharing gameplay and design roots with its elders, will also be fairly different. - Agni' s Philosophy : The interviewer mentioned a rumor about a new PS4 demo to be shown in June, Julien Merceron confirmed that a new Agni demo will indeed be shown next year, and that this time around it won' t run just on PCs (the interviewer insisted, saying "But not on PS3 or 360 right ? Right ?" to no avail. ^^) Also, Julien Merceron said that he likes open world/sandbox games and that SE is interested in trying that out in the future.
Ah yeah, just read about this. All in all, Square-Enix is really all talk and no work at this point. :x But, hopefully when this Lightning's Return stuff comes out, there will be a small glimmer of light for these projects. Going by this pattern here, I assume that they are trying to get out the whole FFXIII saga done and over with.
Probably. That, and FF XIV (which I left out in my translation). I assume once those two are out of the way they' ll stop playing dumb about the rest.
Agni's philosophy looks so nice, so I'm hoping they're considering using it for something! I just want to see a battle system look really flashy and stylish, and I believe that Agni's could have possibly pulled that off. As for Versus, I really wish they'd show something. Maybe some small thing so that fans decide to buy Lightning Returns in hopes for the future. Though, I'm pretty sure I'm getting Lightning Returns regardless of anything.
While I do believe Agni's Philosophy looks fantastic, I do not think that it should have the Final Fantasy title attached to it. Don't get me wrong, I do agree that there should be variance in style and gameplay between each FF installment, but Agni's Philosophy feels like it deviated too much from the style of Final Fantasy. I'm hoping that this would be a separate game though, kind of like a needed original game or, dare I say, another franchise for Square Enix. In my perspective, I also view it as a "guinea pig" for the supposed Playstation 4 engine, so that they can build Final Fantasy XV or something like that off from it.
Source: Siliconera Just bumping this thread because it's the most recent one involving Agni's Philosophy that I found. It's a tech demo. Not a game.
