Yesterday at PAX West, there's narrative and visual Insights panel featuring Art Team Lead Takeo Suzuki and Main Scenario Writer Natsuko Ishikawa from FFXIV Development team. There're a lot of people attended the panel since Shadowbringers receives such a positive reception. When Ishikawa introduced her role as a main scenario writer, the crowd stood cheering for a standing ovation.
She deserves all the applause and praise she got for writing one of the best stories in JRPG. Shadowbringers reminds me of the good old classic FFs and surpasses those in some aspect (I'm looking at you Emet-Selch, you magnificent bastard). It's heartwarming to see fans gave such an overwhelming support to the person behind the scenes.
Ishikawa joined the team back in 2013 and had a major role in scenario team, but this is the first expansion she wrote all the main scenario quest. Good to see SQEX have talented new blood!
You can watch the full panel here - Creating FINAL FANTASY XIV: Shadowbringers - Narrative and Visual Insights
(Warning: there's a massive spoiler in there since this is the discussion of how they create final area of the expansion)
She deserves all the applause and praise she got for writing one of the best stories in JRPG. Shadowbringers reminds me of the good old classic FFs and surpasses those in some aspect (I'm looking at you Emet-Selch, you magnificent bastard). It's heartwarming to see fans gave such an overwhelming support to the person behind the scenes.
Ishikawa joined the team back in 2013 and had a major role in scenario team, but this is the first expansion she wrote all the main scenario quest. Good to see SQEX have talented new blood!
You can watch the full panel here - Creating FINAL FANTASY XIV: Shadowbringers - Narrative and Visual Insights
(Warning: there's a massive spoiler in there since this is the discussion of how they create final area of the expansion)