Yuji Horii has weighed in on his favourite games in the past. He's even mentioned which Final Fantasy games have resonated the most with him: FFX and FFXII. Picking the first two big 3D-era mainline installments—for all their myriad differences—suggests Horii has something of a preferred type. Increased immersion; dramatic audiovisual leaps forward.
Now, the legendary creator of the perennially popular Dragon Quest franchise has evidently narrowed things down to one. The champion Final Fantasy in Horii-san's heart is none other than Yuna and Tidus' tale, the excellently melancholy, admittedly meme-factory, Final Fantasy X.
Horii's comments come from a recent appearance on an episode of the Inside Square Enix series, which is, regrettably, lacking in English subtitles as of this writing. Thankfully, prolific social media icon Genki has done the honours, isolating and translating the pertinent passage:
"The voices had just been added, and the visuals had become beautiful," Horii explained. Amen to that. Final Fantasy XII looks great, too, and it's generally a graphical improvement on several levels, as Square had grown more comfortable with the PlayStation 2 by the time of its release. But Spira, the world of Final Fantasy X, is so memorably...
