Trending News|April 08, 2015 11:55 EDT
'Final Fantasy XV' Game News: HexaDrive Teams Up with Square Enix for Next 'FF' Title
Square Enix is boosting their next game, Final Fantasy XV, with a recent team up with HexaDrive, the company behind Final Fantasy Type-0 HD and Ookami HD according to reliable sources.
Found on Famitsu, the FF XV game director Hajime Tabata has confirmed that HexaDrive has been helping Square Enix by collaborating with the game since they have teamed up with Luminous Studio, previously called "Ebony".
HexaDrive was reportedly helping the team even before the development changes especially on the E3 trailer they had released in 2013.
Tomohiro Hasegawa, Final Fantasy XV Art Director, mentions that they've had major revisions over the game and various roadblocks that they have to completely restructure certain aspects of the game. "On the subject of Versus XIII's development , we went with the high-objective development style we've seen in conventional Final Fantasy titles and the Kingdom Heart series, but we had a difficult time in shaping it together, and kept at it, going through trial-and-error," He mentions.
Major restructure for the game was done when the team realized that their outdated development system might not work on probable next-gen consoles. This had called for a team up with Square Enix Tech department and members of their CG movie production to team up with HexaDrive's game engineers.
Interestingly, the team up has also included an excursion, dungeon site-seeing in Chiba Prefecture for references found in Episode Duscae.
This isn't the only 3rd-party help that Square Enix has called. The team revealed that Taiwanese game company called XPEC Entertainment. Final Fantasy XV is expected to run on next gen consoles for PS4 and Xbox One, but no other information on the game being available for PC or handheld platforms has come out.