One of the founders Monolith soft and its current president Hirohide Sugiura in a recent interview with the magazine Weekly famitsu shared his thoughts on the history of his company and the events that preceded its creation.
So, in conversation Sugiura said that while working in Square he was a big fan of the original Xenogears game designer Tetsui Takahashi, although he personally did not work on this game and was engaged in other projects.
According to him, in the late 90s, inside the company there was talk about a potential Xenogears 2but they quickly came to an end due to huge investments Squaresoft in the film business. Then the company built a high-tech CGI-studio and invested heavily in the production of animated films “Final Fantasy: Spirits Inside“. More precisely, the budget of only this film is from the creator Final Fantasy Hironobu Sakaguchi excluding promotion costs, exceeded $ 137 million.
Moreover, before the premiere Spirits within the Japanese publishing house was building Napoleonic plans and planned to subsequently regularly launch CGI works in cinemas.
On this background Squaresoft decided to abandon the idea of creating a number of games, focusing on the most potentially profitable, in her opinion, titles, and Xenogears 2 there was no chance.
As a result, the creators Xenogears left Squaresoft and decided to create their own company – Monolith soft.
Regarding publisher plans Final fantasy to conquer the cinema market, they, as you know, eventually failed miserably. Movie “Final Fantasy: Spirits Inside“came out in 2001 and brought almost hundred million losses. AT Squaresoft fundamental transformations occurred, as a result of which she merged with the company Enix and turned into Square enix. Father Final fantasy quit.
For Hirohide Sugiura and a number of other developers Xenogears opening Monolith soft was largely perceived as an initiative due to which the failed Xenogears 2 could see the light at least in some form. That is how a few years later came into being Xenosaga: Episode I for Playstation 2, the spiritual heir to the legendary role-playing game Squaresoft.
Today Monolith soft is a part Nintendo and is engaged in the creation of large-scale role-playing games with open worlds. The latest studio release is augmented and expanded reissue Xenoblade chroniclesentered the official sale today. You can find our review here..
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