Yoichi Wada fired by Square Enix ! Will Square Enix and it's JRPG's be better?

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Soriku said:

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Soriku said:
Uh...somehow I don't think Wada was the one to tell them not to make HD towns.

I wouldn't be surprised if he had the final say. If incorporating towns into the game was going to cost a lot then I can imagine the CEO telling managers to remove the feature.

FF XIII-2 has towns, Lighting Returns has towns, Versus XIII has towns, The Last Remnant has towns, Nier has towns, Star Ocean 4 has towns...all games SE published/are publishing.

Don't think it's much of an issue for them. Back then it just seemed like a bullshit excuse. Like, their idea of streamlining the game in FF XIII didn't work because nobody liked it so they made an excuse even though they're capable.

It was a bullshit excuse but one that may well have been born of poor decision making and management (due to a CEO not having any prior experience in the games industry maybe?). The FFXIII sequels inclusion of towns were a direct response to criticisms of XIII.