Final Fantasy 10 Was 'Ultimate Perfection,' Says Dragon Quest Creator Yuji Horii

The creator of Dragon Quest, Yuji Horii, believes Final Fantasy X was "ultimate perfection" erstwhile it released backmost successful 2001.

In an interrogation with Game Informer, Horii talked astir his acquisition processing Dragon Quest, which astatine the clip was up against the Final Fantasy bid arsenic Square and Enix had yet to merge. While helium didn't truly deliberation of Final Fantasy arsenic "competition" per se — portion they're some RPGs, their approaches to storytelling are rather antithetic — helium did admit that helium was "definitely paying attraction to it."

"Way backmost then, erstwhile Final Fantasy primitively came out, I was decidedly paying attraction to it due to the fact that it was thing we needed to look retired for," Horii said, reflecting connected however the games differ. "But there's 1 cardinal quality that I truly saw backmost then: the protagonists successful the Final Fantasy titles, they talk a lot. Whereas for Dragon Quest, the cardinal nonsubjective for [the games], oregon the acquisition it offers for the player, is that the subordinate becomes the protagonist themselves.

"In Final Fantasy, you benignant of observe the protagonist, but you're not needfully becoming the protagonist successful the games. So I thought that was a truly absorbing and stark quality betwixt Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy, but I didn't needfully spot them arsenic a rival backmost then."

That whitethorn person changed erstwhile Final Fantasy X came along, however.

"Final Fantasy, again, [the protagonists] conscionable speech a lot," Horii added. "I bash similar Final Fantasy, though. When I archetypal saw Final Fantasy X, I callback feeling this was the eventual perfection of Final Fantasy."

Don't hide that Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake released astatine the extremity of October. We thought it was Amazing, awarding it 9/10, writing: "Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake beautifully concludes this trilogy, recapturing the retro magic of the originals portion giving them a modern facelift."

And arsenic for the latest connected Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3? Director Naoki Hamaguchi precocious confirmed the upcoming crippled would "strike a balance" erstwhile it came to pacing and beryllium "more concise," but insisted didn't mean helium would chopped immoderate contented from the game.

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