According to Yoshinori Kitase, Final Fantasy XV (that’s right 15) could ditch the turn-based battle system. Now this isn’t a big news, since games after FFX-2 all have some sort of active battle system. When you look at Final Fantasy XIII, it’s a total departure from the old school style of gameplay.

Square Enix is always experimenting with each Final Fantasy game, as you all know but it is really interesting to see how they carry the franchise now.

Kitase mentioned this in an interview with EDGE.

“I think the nature of the franchise is to present something new each time. In the global market we see many players moving away from games that used turn-based systems toward what you might term an action-RPG.

“That’s a trend, and you ignore things like that at your peril,” he said.

We agree with him, this is definitely something we need to consider.

He also mentioned that, “FFXIII and FFXIII-2’s battle systems have those elements of speed and action that are the key words for us, though that doesn’t necessarily mean we’re going to stick to the same route in our next game.

“That’s something only time can tell.”

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The main point for them is the success of the first game though; “That depends on how well the game sells in the West”.

Kitase has said that there are several points in the game he would like the chance to refine in a sequel, “In the past three years we worked both on the world and on the various systems. Creating these systems isn’t very glamorous and can frankly be a bit boring. If we could do a XIII-2, we could direct all our attention to the story and refine what we have already built.”

The pair also had the following to say on the chance of a Final Fantasy XV, “We do not know if there will be a XV. This depends a lot on the success of XIII. Also, it is difficult to pinpoint elements that are typical Final Fantasy.”

“They are mostly invisible: part of the DNA of the game, that everyone recognizes as typical Final Fantasy. But if there is a XV, I hope the way we wrote our characters carries over. We strived to create believable people of flesh and blood. They are not robots. And they are not super heroes. I hope this humanity is something we will see again.”

Final Fantasy XIII launched earlier this week, selling over 5 million units to date.

Thanks to VG247.

“We don’t know how possible it is to build the game in 3D but we are interested in it,” he said. “In fact, we have already created a 3D Final Fantasy XIII trailer, which is currently showing in Japanese cinemas alongside the film Avatar.”

The game (in 2D, unfortunately!) is due out March 9th for Ps3 and 360.

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