SQUARE ENIX creates ‘FINAL FANTASY COMMITTEE’ to OVERSEE FRANCHISE.

Yeah, that’s what Square Enix needs. More fucking bureaucracy. They’ve created a “Final Fantasy Committee” to oversee the franchise. With the franchise dying a general laughingstock for gamers of my generations, it’s good to see them making an effort. Makes sense. But I’m not sure it is needed. They could just try reading any news story written about them over the last twelve years.

Square Enix has established a new committee of key developers to reportedly oversee the ongoing quality of the Final Fantasy franchise.

According to a report from Japanese site FF-Reunion, the committee consists of Naoki Yoshida, director of Dragon Quest: Monster Battle games and Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn; Hajime Tabata, director of Final Fantasy Type-0 and Final Fantasy 7spin-offs Before Crisis and Crisis Core; Motomu Toriyama, director of the Final Fantasy 13 series; and Yoshinori Kitase, longtime series producer and director of Final Fantasy 7 and Final Fantasy 8.

Veteran character designer and creative producer Tetsuya Nomura is reportedly not involved — or involved in a limited capacity.

A Square Enix representative confirmed the existence of the committee, but did not comment on specifics or confirm the members involved. The publisher promised “more information shortly” on the committee’s existence.

[Polygon]

Kitase being involved is pretty fucking cool. Nomura not being involved is also pretty fucking cool. As much as I’m a bit stoked for the hyper-kinetic nonsense of FFXV, I’m pretty sure the gaming community as a whole would blow a load if they actually offered an installment in the vein of like, the first nine titles.