A large number of Japanese gamers have been discussing on social media why younger gamers are not getting into beloved video game franchises like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. They have concluded that younger Japanese gamers are not forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest due to the lengthy development times it takes for new entries in the series to appear. While the franchises remain very popular in Japan, they resonate less with the youth and more with older gamers who grew up with the games in their childhoods.
Japan: Young gamers not forming same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest due to lengthy dev time
Final Fantasy has definitely lost my respect since 15… I don’t know what Square Enix was thinking when making 15 and (especially) 16, but they clearly only have the name ‘Final Fantasy’! As for Dragon Quest, I’m glad that the spirit of the franchise is still there, even if the remake of 7 disappointed me quite a bit with its relative ease and the content cut compared to the 3DS version.
FF13 is the worst
exactly it literally lasted for a decade and technically 15 is also 13 and yet people want a remake and remaster like give me a break…
The mistake with FF15 was having all it’s story scattered across multiple games and alternate mediums. Then they made it worse by canceling the last 3 episodes and turning them into yet another different medium: a damn novel. If they put it all in one long, huge game, we probably woulda got a great game. That said, I still adore FFXV and the mess it was. I spent what probably felt like 2 years playing it. (Was probably legit 2 years.)
Squeenix is clearly ran by morons these days. They’re idiocy even negatively impacted KH3… and modern Disney didn’t help matters.
FF15 should get remade fix the story wish they would do it but Tabata left to form a new studio JP Gajes so I don’t know how it would turn out maybe letting Nomura make Versus 13 would sell well or Verum Rex he claims they are separate games but IDK? Ports for sure need to happen 15 on Switch 2. At this point I do think Square Enix should sell to Nintendo give Xenogears to Monolith, finally make Super Mario RPG, SquareSoft as a seperate split from Enix as 2 separate studios make cheaper JRPG’s occasionally some big ones. No more western games and sell Sleeping Dogs to Saber Interactive.
Partially true the younger crowd around their 20’s likes Kingdom Hearts more, in the case of Final Fantasy X and XV are popular, and Dragon Quest actually did well with XI for younger audiences. Bouncer might actually do well also adapting Gangan manga into games like Red Ranger Becomes An Adventurer In Another World, Soul Eater, and others partner with Hiromu Arakawa to create a new game her art and writing a CyberConnect2 action RPG with anime arena fighter elements. XI did will for Dragon Quest remake Chrono Trigger the same way also make anime series adapting games it attracts more people same with the Gangan stuff if it’s adapted into anime more reason to adapt into games, you know what Bandai used to do. Sleeping Dogs has its crowd I know it’s western but it’s better than funding games like Killer Inn and Life Is Strange, at least port it to Switch 2. Musashi could sell well maybe making a new game for that. Versus XIII or Verum Rex could do well, a Kingdom Hearts MMO, obviously remake of Dark Road and Union X too.
Sure, but it’s less ‘love them and leave them’, and more show up super late with a weird gift and some bad excuses
FFXV was fantastic. Hope it comes to Switch 2 this year for a 10th Anniversary celebration
I think the other thing that has been lost here that adds to this is that all the other RPGs stepped up. Like I remember people being hyped for persona and the tail series in the past, but when particularly Final Fantasy 13 stumbled the alternatives kind of got better overall at the same time and those have skyrocketed. So I would say that younger Gamers are probably more hyped for games like persona. Then they are Final Fantasy because of that.