Square Enix RPG Project Setsuna Is Based On Sorrow

<p><em>Project Setsuna<&sol;em> is named after the Japanese word &&num;8220&semi;setsunasa&&num;8221&semi; which means &&num;8220&semi;sorrow&&num;8221&semi;&period; The information was revealed in the latest issue of japanese gaming magazine Famitsu in an interview with Square Enix president Yosuka Matsuda&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Matusda also spoke about the challenges of creating a big new IP in the RPG genre&period; He said&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s important to create new IPs&comma; but creating big IPs is difficult&period; Having been looking at the game industry up until now&comma; it’s quite common to see &lbrack;a video game series&rsqb; take the form of a trilogy&period; In that sense&comma; we need to have at least three &lbrack;titles&rsqb; before knowing whether it will continue growing or not&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s a smaller-scaled challenge up until the second title&comma; and if you’ve raised the series enough to expect a big hit on the third title&comma; then that’s when you can increase its scale&period; Once that third title becomes a success&comma; that’s when I have nothing to worry about&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><em>Project Setsuna<&sol;em> was announced at <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;square-enix-e3-2015-conference&sol;">Square Enix&&num;8217&semi;s E3 conference<&sol;a> last month&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s being developed by a new development studio called Tokyo RPG Factory and will release on home consoles in 2016&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;siliconera&period;com&sol;2015&sol;07&sol;21&sol;square-enixs-project-setsuna-has-sadness-as-a-theme&sol;&num;j4j2CX5WcopLIKOi&period;99">Siliconera<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;