Kitase on FF7 remake - "Maybe, perhaps we'll have some news for you at a later time."

[androvsky]

Originally Posted by Terjyn

Really?

Yuji Horii is the mastermind behind Dragon Quest series. He doesn't work for Square-Enix, and he was the producer.

Level 5 did the technical work (and had the Director)

Akira Toriyama did the character design, also a non-Enixer.

Translation by itself can't count, no matter how well done it actually is.

I'm not saying you are wrong, but if you look at the credits of Dragon Quest VIII you have to get to fairly un-important roles to find an actual Square-Enixer.

Even if Square-Enix had way more to do with it than I thought, is it any wonder that I didn't realize it?

*EDIT* I see that Horii's company has an exclusive contract with Square-Enix so he doesn't do work for anyone else, but once you've split off a company is it really your work? Wouldn't that be more 2nd party than first party? I always get confused by these terms.

My main point is that I don't like to give too much credit to Level 5 for DQ 8; I almost wrote Horii instead of Enix in my post but decided to keep it simple, thinking that he worked for Enix (which he apparently does, in a way).

It's just an old pet peeve of mine since Level 5 seems to get a lot more attention for their work on the DQ games though nobody ever talks about ArtePiazza or Heartbeat when they mention the older titles.

[Terjyn]

Originally Posted by androvsky

My main point is that I don't like to give too much credit to Level 5 for DQ 8; I almost wrote Horii instead of Enix in my post but decided to keep it simple, thinking that he worked for Enix (which he apparently does, in a way).

It's just an old pet peeve of mine since Level 5 seems to get a lot more attention for their work on the DQ games though nobody ever talks about ArtePiazza or Heartbeat when they mention the older titles.

Fair enough, and I should have been more clear in my first post.

I wasn't trying to give Level 5 undue respect, rather pointing out that it looks as though Dragon Quest(from 8 on) is no longer a Square-Enix project, since they let Horii go make his own company.