As part of Famitsu’s 2024 New Year Greetings column, Mistwalker CEO Hironobu Sakaguchi said that the studio has started production of a new scenario. The developer also said that he has been playing a lot of Final Fantasy XIV every day. [Thanks, Famitsu!]
Corresponding with his message, the keyphrase for the studio this year is “production of a new work begins.” Hironobu Sakaguchi didn’t elaborate on what type of scenario Mistwalker is working on. Still, the developer confirmed that they concluded plotted the overall scenario and are now in the main scenario writing stage. Sakaguchi remarked that it is important to condense and make the writing entertaining at this stage of development.
The latest game developed by Mistwalker is the Apple Arcade exclusive turn-based RPG Fantasian. On August 2023, a listing for Fantasian appeared on SteamDB. No information about a possible port has appeared after this, but Sakaguchi himself commented on the possibility of a PC release or a sequel to the game back in February 2023.
Regarding his daily time spent playing FFXIV, Sakaguchi shared that he plays on the Anima server of the Mana data center (corresponding with the Japanese regional servers.) The developer encouraged fans to join him in his travels by playing with him on the Anima server.
Sakaguchi started playing FFXIV in September 2021, and he documents his progress daily on his personal Twitter account. Sakaguchi even began selling his own brand of in-game merchandise under the title of “sagaGUCCI” back in January 2022.
At the time of writing, Fantasian is only available on Apple Arcade for Macs and Apple devices.
