Overview

• Sandfall Interactive leads Guillaume Broche, Francois Meurisse, Tom Guillermin and Alexis Garavaryan met with Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi and producer Yoshinori Kitase at Square Enix’s Tokyo headquarters for a “creatively rich exchange of visions and ideas.”
• The developers also visited Kojima Productions to present signed copies of Expedition 33 to Death Stranding 2 director Hideo Kojima.
• Visions of Mana director Ryosuke Yoshida hailed Expedition 33 as his favorite game and joined the Sandfall team for a celebratory dinner.
• High-profile meetings have intensified fan hopes that Square Enix may reincorporate traditional turn-based combat into future Final Fantasy entries.
• Square Enix has acknowledged Clair Obscur’s commercial and critical success to shareholders but declined to confirm any design changes for its next mainline Final Fantasy project.