Wright said: You guys talking about Vesperia make me sad. I'm currently playing Zestiria and, while a great game, doesn't touch Vesperia's awesomeness. The Tales team have made too many steps backward ever since they departure from the Vespy formula. |
That'd be because they booted Kikuchi, who was also the reason they were pushing into the Xbox and Nintendo consoles... Kikuchi left, Baba became their current leader and they are back to the pre Team Symphonia days...
Team Symphonia (last name, Project Vesperia) were the ones behind the great games of the Tales series. Most of that staff left when Namco Tales Studio was dissolved, much like how Itagaki left Tecmo and took the bulk of his staff with him along with his fans and created Valhalla. It was a similar move to what Sakaguchi made with Mistwalker...
Those three, Kikuchi, Itagaki and Sakaguchi, were the Xbox brand's Japanese supporters and they were all booted out, left their studio or where abandoned... if Spencer was smart, he'd ask all three of them to merge into one conglomerate with MS to create a JP Microsoft company...