http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/09/12...-debut-trailer


I'm not too sure but everything from the unusual color-palette to face-shape and architecture style just screams Akihiko Yoshida to me.

I think he's really good at this style and Final Fantasy Gaiden is to me without a doubt the best art direction work he has done because the style forces him to use colors at least to some degree.

If it indeed is Akihiko's work I wonder how it will impact the quantity of new visual content in XIV for the next upcoming months.

While making XIV he was working as an art director in no less than 3 different games. I think this might have had a greater impact on XIV's lack of variety than one might think.

In Eorzea Tsushin by Famitsu there was a heap of building concept art and honestly they're all amazing. There just isn't that much of them for a massive game like this.