The second part of the Final Fantasy XIV fan festival trilogy has wrapped up, and Japanese gaming site Game Watch has sat down for an interview with producer and director Naoki Yoshida. While Yoshida obviously won’t reveal any more about the next expansion in such an interview (there’s still the Tokyo festival in a bit less than two months), the interview does feature an in-depth explanation of Yoshida’s thought process and decisions about what we’ve heard and what’s coming in the future.
For example, Yoshida explains that the Gunbreaker’s status as a tank is based on keeping a balance between the roles available in the game, and it uses a different style of gunblade from Garlean NPCs simply because he wanted to stick closer to the fan favorite versions of the iconic weapon (he compares the Garlean version to being more akin to a bayonet). He also discusses his contrarian impulses while mentioning that one of his goals with the ever-expanding trailers is to fuel speculation, right and wrong. Check out the full translated interview for more detail behind the game’s keynote revelations.Source: Reddit
