Yasumi Matsuno is working on a new project, as revealed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of Final Fantasy and founder of Mistwalker. The information appears in an interview with Sakaguchi as part of the articles published by Japanese media such as Famitsu and 4Gamer where the creators talk about their expectations in 2022 and the last twelve months.

Specifically, 4Gamer asks Sakaguchi about the character of 2021 to which he replies that “Yasumi Matsuno seems to be writing a new story. I don’t know what kind of project it is but I sure have to watch out.”.

Matsuno is known for direct and write some of Square Enix’s best RPGs, which include Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story The Final Fantasy XII -although in the final stretch of the project he was relieved. He also wrote MadWorld from PlatinumGames and one of the stories of Terra Battle, Mistwalker mobile game. In the last few years I have returned to work with PlatinumGames in Lost Order, I made some stories for Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood Y Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers The Unsung Story.

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Mistwalker recently released Fantasian on iOS devices under the Apple Arcade subscription service. Sakaguchi hinted that this could be his last game and that it may also be the last complete soundtrack of Nobuo Uematsu – known especially from the saga Final Fantasy– but in the interview he does not confirm that this is so.

Regarding Matsuno, he also does not mention if the game is something completely original or to take up any of his projects. For example, in the last months it leaked Final Fantasy Tactics Remaster in a list of Nvidia GeForce Now and a tester mentioned that Eidos Montreal has invited him to play an unknown title for which they ask about experience in various tactical role-playing games, such as Fire Emblem, FF Tactics, Ogre Battle, Disgaea The Into the Breach. Will not be Triangle Strategy, Square Enix’s tactical RPG due to hit Switch on March 4, 2022, because the survey didn’t ask about possible experience with Octopath Traveler but Final Fantasy XII and the RPG with elements of strategy Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings for Nintendo DS, “the only games of Final Fantasy non-tactical taking place in Ivalice. “