@Severian I’m going to have to correct you on a few things.. Firstly, ‘90s Squaresoft wasn’t particularly “high quality”. Heck, even FFVII had glaring and jarring translation issues and terrible glitches/bugs. ‘90S Squaresoft also never backed up the source codes of their games, especially FFVIII and FFIX, which is why their remasters are practically only the models and there’s no original backgrounds to even enhance at all. Secondly, Squaresoft went bankrupt (technically twice! First was resolved, second is what caused Enix to have to save them, and it was Sakaguchi’s fault because of Spirits Within being a financial failure), and Enix has always owned/developed Dragon Quest, and is still an entirely separate studio than literally ANY of the Final Fantasy dev studio teams. If you’re going to point fingers, at least point it at the ENIX part of SQUARE ENIX (and considering Enix is the reason Squaresoft franchises even still exist, and old Square dev studios still have their job), because Square has absolutely nothing at all to do with Dragon Quest, as Enix has nothing to do with Final Fantasy. As far as the quality comment goes, there are plenty of examples as to SE showing exceptional high standard, FFVII Remake part one looks stunning, and their graphical/animation quality is hugely positive. This instance, granted, is extra dumb on the part of the DQ dev team. But SE has shown better. World of Final Fantasy’s Maxima expansion, for example, was essentially akin to DQXI’s S added features, it was a DLC add-on for PS4 (which already had the original WoFF), and was a full price game when Maxima came out for Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. This is literally just a massive oversight by the DQ team and Enix specifically, NOT the Square side.
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@Severian I’m going to have to correct you on a few things..
Firstly, ‘90s Squaresoft wasn’t particularly “high quality”. Heck, even FFVII had glaring and jarring translation issues and terrible glitches/bugs. ‘90S Squaresoft also never backed up the source codes of their games, especially FFVIII and FFIX, which is why their remasters are practically only the models and there’s no original backgrounds to even enhance at all.
Secondly, Squaresoft went bankrupt (technically twice! First was resolved, second is what caused Enix to have to save them, and it was Sakaguchi’s fault because of Spirits Within being a financial failure), and Enix has always owned/developed Dragon Quest, and is still an entirely separate studio than literally ANY of the Final Fantasy dev studio teams. If you’re going to point fingers, at least point it at the ENIX part of SQUARE ENIX (and considering Enix is the reason Squaresoft franchises even still exist, and old Square dev studios still have their job), because Square has absolutely nothing at all to do with Dragon Quest, as Enix has nothing to do with Final Fantasy.
As far as the quality comment goes, there are plenty of examples as to SE showing exceptional high standard, FFVII Remake part one looks stunning, and their graphical/animation quality is hugely positive.
This instance, granted, is extra dumb on the part of the DQ dev team. But SE has shown better. World of Final Fantasy’s Maxima expansion, for example, was essentially akin to DQXI’s S added features, it was a DLC add-on for PS4 (which already had the original WoFF), and was a full price game when Maxima came out for Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.
This is literally just a massive oversight by the DQ team and Enix specifically, NOT the Square side.