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    Default What's next for the former Yasumi Matsuno team after Final Fantasy XII?

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    The Yasumi Matsuno team may have disbanded after Final Fantasy XII. They worked together on five games consecutively, in which the team was basically exactly the same each time. Y.M. was the Producer, Director, and Scenario Writer for most of FF XII's production before leaving. I wonder what's next for this team. Here's the five games that the team has worked on...
    Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen
    Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together
    Final Fantasy Tactics
    Vagrant Story
    Final Fantasy XII

    There are also other games, made by some of the members of this team that are already out or are coming out. These games are not made by the full Yasumi Matsuno team...
    Magical Chase, Ogre Battle 64, Ogre Battle Gaiden, Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Final Fantasy Tactics(PSP), Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings, Final Fantasy Tactics A2

    Here's what person filled which role in each of the five Yasumi Matsuno game teams...
    Producer: Various
    Director: Yasumi Matsuno
    Game Designer: Yasumi Matsuno
    Scenario Writer: Yasumi Matsuno
    Character Designer: Akihiko Yoshida
    Art Director: Hiroshi Minagawa
    Composer: Hitoshi Sakimoto and sometimes Masaharu Iwata

    Here's what next for those people...
    Yasumi Matsuno: Working with Nintendo on a new Wii Rpg, and has taken some members of Monolith Soft(Xenosaga 1-3) with him
    Akihiko Yoshida: Wikipedia shows FF III(DS Remake) and FF Tactics(PSP Remake)
    Hiroshi Minagawa: Wikipedia doesn't show anything
    Hitoshi Sakimoto: Various stuff(Odin Sphere, GrimGrimoire, Deltora Quest, FF T[PSP], FF XII: RW, Final Fantasy Tactics A2, ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat, Opoona)
    Masaharu Iwata: FF T(PSP), Odin Sphere

    We know what Yasumi Matsuno is doing now. Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata are composers and are free to join up with Yasumi Matsuno again easily I think. I wonder what Akihiko Yoshida and Hiroshi Minagawa are up to?

    Let's say a new Wii rpg is announced, with these credits...
    Producer: Yasumi Matsuno, or Shigeru Miyamoto
    Director: Yasumi Matsuno
    Game Design: Yasumi Matsuno
    Scenario Writer: Yasumi Matsuno
    Character Designer: Akihiko Yoshida
    Art Director: Hiroshi Minagawa
    Composers: Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata

    If an announcement like that is made, it will be extremely ultimate for me and everybody else! Do you think this can or will happen? What are your thought on this situation?
    Last edited by Dragonsoul; 09-27-2007 at 12:31 AM.
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    *Last Update 7-25-2008

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