Square Enix is "probably kicking itself" seeing the success of realistic turn-based JRPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, analyst says, after being "reticent to do it with the Final Fantasy series"
"If yo꧋u asked Final Fantasy fans from the late '90s/early '00s what the ideal 🦹version of a JRPG should look like, it'd be something like this"

Final Fantas🎉y fans have been begging for the series to return to its turn-based roots for years, and according to one analyst the success of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 probably has Square Enix feeling some regret over not catering to that niche sooner.
The biggest factors in Expedition 33's success are its lovable characters, great combat, and relatively low $50 price tag, as Rhys Elliott of Alinea Analytic🍎s tells . But he adds that "there was also an opening for a modern, realistic-looking JRPG" with a traditional batt𓃲le system.
"Square Enix was reticent to do it with the Final Fantasy series," Elliott continues. "Now it's probably kicking itself. Expedition 33 has g✱iven RPG fans something they always wanted. If you asked Final Fanta༺sy fans from the late '90s/early '00s what the ideal version of a JRPG should look like, it'd be something like this."
Back in 2022, Final Fantasy 16 producer Naok🍎i Yoshida t🦩old GamesRadar+ that he understood the appeal of turn-based combat &ndꦅash; after all, he came up alongside that style of gameplay just as series fans did – but he equally seemed to believe that action-based battles were a far bett♏er fit for games with realistic graphics.
"One thing that we found recently is that as graphics get better and better, and as characters become more realistic and more photo-real, is that the combination of that realism with the very unreal sense of turn-based commands doesn't really fit together,"✅ Yoshida said at the time. "You have this kind of strange gap that emerges."
Yoshida didn't attribute the decision to go all-in on action for FF16 to any sales directive, but there has historically been a feeling in the game industry that action games sell better than turn-based ones. Larian publishing director Michael Dose recently lamented h𒅌ow difficult it is to conv🥃ince people that "your turn-based RPG will sell," but Baldur's Gate 3 certainly proved that there's still an appetite for that style of game. Expedition 33 is ably proving that the JR🉐PG fandom's hunger is still alive, too.
According to Elliot, Expedition 33's sales are measuring up more than favorably against Metaphoℱr: ReFantazio, the biggest turn-based JRPG in recent memory, and that game offers its own lessons on the power of old-school combat.
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"One of the main selling points of a turned based battle system is the fact that players can take their time to think about the action they should take, and then in turn receive appropriate feedback based on those choices," Metap🌱hor's lead battle planner Ke🍷nichi Goto told GamesRadar+💦 earlier this year, noting that games🍷 where you make "one wrong move and everything's lost" offer their own kind of thrill.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I hope the success of all these games helps to prove that 🤡there is, indeed, a market for turn-based RPGs, and not a niche one. I'm as desperate as anyone for Final Fantasy to return to its roots, but in the meanti𝓀me there are still excellent games like Expedition 33 to fill the void.
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a n🐭ews writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these daꦫys you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.
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