Yoshinori Kitase

“RPGのような顔をして実はシューティングゲームだったって部分で非常に驚いた覚えはあります”

— From The Games That Made Us: Yoshinori Kitase | Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Square Enix (February 13, 2025)

“單体1個1個のアセットのクオリティが高くなるのと同時にボリュームが大きなるっていうのがそういうステージが切り替わったところなので従来の延長線上では作り切れなくなるという部分が分かっていたのである意味その選択する選択と集中性な部分が非常に求められたところがある”

— From The Games That Made Us: Yoshinori Kitase | Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Square Enix (February 13, 2025)

“The first thing that really left an impression on me was playing Space Invaders in an arcade. I was about 10 years old when I first played Space Invaders.”

— From Final Fantasy VII Rebirth's Yoshinori Kitase was influenced by Alone in the Dark | Checkpoint, BAFTA (June 28, 2024)

“The game that really left an impression on me was Alone in the Dark. In terms of expressing an adventure game with 3D characters and diverse camera work, Alone in the Dark left a very strong impression.”

— From Final Fantasy VII Rebirth's Yoshinori Kitase was influenced by Alone in the Dark | Checkpoint, BAFTA (June 28, 2024)

“My goal my dream and what I wanted to achieve with my job was to take it from that position and make it so that games were something that people would talk about every day around the dinner table there'd be heated debates about games in the same way and they'd be something really would have that positive influence on p...”

— From The Evolution of Final Fantasy from Final Fantasy VII to Rebirth with Yoshinori Kitase | BAFTA, BAFTA (June 20, 2024)

“I think we are now very much using the same kinds of techniques and pretty much the same same technology that film CG animators would use in in in the in the cinema and again like I say with the bigger teams and the much longer development periods and the sheer scale of work involved in in just making a single game the...”

— From The Evolution of Final Fantasy from Final Fantasy VII to Rebirth with Yoshinori Kitase | BAFTA, BAFTA (June 20, 2024)

“VIIIって当時...RPGとしてのお約束とか定番ってほとんど固まりつつあって、その定番的なものに、やっぱりゲームクリエイターだから「俺達はこのままでいいのか」的な感じのね、「もっと新しいものを！」みたいな、かなりそういう、とんがった反発神経みたいのが強い時期だったんですVIIIは。なので、すごくいっぱい...RPGとしては、もしくはそれまでのFFシリーズとしては、ありえなかった斬新なシステムとか結構いっぱい盛り込んだので...”

— From Talking FINAL FANTASY VIII Remastered with YOSHINORI KITASE // Meme Review, EDAMAME Arcade Channel (August 20, 2019)

“本当は、当初は、グラフィックが例えば強化しなくても、現世代のハードでFFVIIIってなかなか遊べる環境が整ってないので、現世代のハードに移植して遊べるだけでもいいかな、という感じでスタートしたんですけど、やっぱり20年前に比べると、プレイヤーさん側の遊べる環境って変わってきてるじゃないですか...流石にそのまま移植では難しいということで、途中からやっぱり、グラフィックのアップデートをしようという風になって...”

— From Talking FINAL FANTASY VIII Remastered with YOSHINORI KITASE // Meme Review, EDAMAME Arcade Channel (August 20, 2019)

“Final Fantasy 8 really was a very unique and very different game in the Final Fantasy series and obviously that includes both the story and the setting. The actual gameplay systems that we introduced from Final Fantasy 8 were quite revolutionary. They're the sort of things you've never seen before in Final Fantasy or e...”

— From gamescom 2018 | Final Fantasy VIII Remaster Yoshinori Kitase-Interview | PS4, PlayStation DACH (August 20, 2019)

“Certainly going back to Final Fantasy 7 what we really tried to push the envelope with and do more on which 7 was the visual for graphics because obviously we had that massive leap in graphical power graphical technology between 6 and 7. It was obviously further in evolution of the graphical enhancements between 7 and...”

— From gamescom 2018 | Final Fantasy VIII Remaster Yoshinori Kitase-Interview | PS4, PlayStation DACH (August 20, 2019)

“発売日を発表しました。2020年3月3日。”

— From FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE Producer Yoshinori Kitase and a surprise guest? #FF7R, EDAMAME Arcade Channel (June 10, 2019)

“リークしちゃったりするんですよ。事前に漏れちゃったり。だから、私も含めてスタッフ一同ね、あの...ここまで秘密秘密にやってきたので、すごくみんな神経すり減らしちゃって...で、あそこで発表できてやっぱり、わ〜って盛り上がったっていうのはね、非常にもう...感動というか、この瞬間のためにやってきた！みたいな。”

— From FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE Producer Yoshinori Kitase and a surprise guest? #FF7R, EDAMAME Arcade Channel (June 10, 2019)

“僕、ゲームでロード時間があるのって絶対ダメだと思うんですよ。未だにダメだと思ってるんだけど、特に最後にラスボスで突っ込んでいくぞー！って時に「ロード中...」最悪じゃないですか？俺のこの盛り上がった気持ちどうしてくれるんだって感じですよ。”

— From EXCLUSIVE! FINAL FANTASY VII Legends Reunion || Hironobu Sakaguchi, Nobuo Uematsu, Yoshinori Kitase, EDAMAME Arcade Channel (July 22, 2018)

“FF1,2,3,4,5,6まで作ってきて、やっとわかってきた　自分なりにロールプレイングゲームって、こっちでいいんだなっていうのがわかってきた時に、方向性が全部...”

— From EXCLUSIVE! FINAL FANTASY VII Legends Reunion || Hironobu Sakaguchi, Nobuo Uematsu, Yoshinori Kitase, EDAMAME Arcade Channel (July 22, 2018)

“I remember looking right back at the beginning of the project 10 years ago when I we first started doing the original Final Fantasy 13 and I remember the first thing I said to uh the the direct of the game uh Mr Toyama I said to him um above all when when we're making this game uh what I really want you to do is make i...”

— From Final Fantasy Developer Interview with Yoshinori Kitase and Yuji Abe, GAME (February 20, 2014)