Akihiko sifts focus to another project?

[Seif]

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.

[viion]

Looks very good! might get it if it comes to EU.

[Seif]

Yup definitely me-buy material.

Is it just me or doest that restaurant scene in particular look exactly like some of the leve-counter concept art pieces for xiv?

[Konachibi]

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.

The little grey-haired character in that clip looked a little bit too much like a chibi Allegretto from Eternal Sonata. It couldn't be though, unless Square have aquired sequal-rights from Namco Bandai.

[Munba]

This game is very promising and inspiring (same team of FF Gaiden i presume). That 2D worldmap is BEAUTIFUL..

[User201109011315]

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.

Ha, what do you have against Akihiko? I am quite partial to his muted colour pallette. The thing I hate about GW2 is that it is so flambouyantly excessive in terms of colours that nothing ends up matching. It's kind of like those people who think wearing ten non-matching colours looks good, when it doesn't.

[Xmbei]

I like the look of this game its a new series and new world, but it's a call back to the games everyone loved that they made. It looks pretty sweet, since they say they will have those AR cards and a demo at Tokyo Game Show I will let you guys know how it is! I am excited to go this Saturday ^.^! Yay TGS!!!!

[Akira_Tenshi]

This game looks great, looks like a Squaresoft game. I keep saying Square need to create more new franchises. It shouldn't be all about FF, DQ and KH. The World Ends With You is still my favourite game on DS.

[Seif]

Umm I have nothing against him I quite like his style. I like his style more in some games than others I don't know what GW2 has to do with it.

4 warriors of light is probably one of the prettiest DS games I've seen.
If you have to dig up some negativity about it then I guess it's directed towards SE for working him overtime and not letting to focus fully on one project back when he was doing drawings for XIV's world. I wish I could link to the images of landmark designs in the Famitsu magazine they're quite spectacular.

[User201109011315]

Umm I have nothing against him I quite like his style. I like his style more in some games than others I don't know what GW2 has to do with it.

4 warriors of light is probably one of the prettiest DS games I've seen.
If you have to dig up some negativity about it then I guess it's directed towards SE for working him overtime and not letting to focus fully on one project back when he was doing drawings for XIV's world. I wish I could link to the images of landmark designs in the Famitsu magazine they're quite spectacular.

Well I just saw you once complaining about FFXIV being so uncolourful before, so i naturally assumed you had an axe to grind against the art direction. But clearly I've let my imagination get the best of me.

Oh. Why can't you link them? Is it some kind of infringement policy or do you just not have the link? I haven't seen those images, unless they're really old, in which case I probably have seen them.