Square Enix didn’t stop at Final Fantasy XV, of course, as the Japanese company is working on a new main act, Final Fantasy XVI (while the MMORPG genre XIV is also being expanded and a spin-off that precedes the first part is in development at Team Ninja).

Naoki Yoshida, nicknamed Yoshi-P, is the producer of Final Fantasy XVI, and he revealed a bit more details about the upcoming game on a Japanese program, Washagana TV. Here’s what he said: „I’ve been working on Final Fantasy XIV for eight years now, but I’ve never been to a voice recording session.

I have my policies about this. If I go, since I also write some dialogue I would want to step in and say my opinions, making the whole session seem like there are two sound directors. And I think the voice actors may have a hard time if the producer/director comes in and says different things from what they were told by the sound director. So I don’t go to voice recording sessions.

I’m also not going to Final Fantasy XVI recording sessions. Since I’m not the one writing the story. During story meetings, I do say my opinions like, ‘I think this line should be changed, considering the protagonist Clive’s emotions…’ Although the team has been doing a great job of considering my opinions. This time, English recording is going first. And we have been focusing on British English.

Also, we have to record facial movements. We can’t possibly hand-animate every cut of a scene. So this time we are doing full facial motion captures and then adding voices to that. Those works are not entirely cutscenes though. So this is one of the reasons why the English version is ahead of others. We are going to start the Japanese version soon,” Yoshida said.

Recently, he mentioned that Final Fantasy XVI (which will first launch on PlayStation 5) is nearing the completion of voice recording.

Source: Gematsu