The debate on the direction of games playing roles has been raging for years. In 2025, in 2025, there was some additional fuel with the success of Claira Obsur: Expedition 33, because it is RPG based on a turn, which bears inspiration right next to 33 on the sleeve.
Now these links are a reality, because several members of the Clair Obsurn team have recently visited the Square Enix offices and met with some development leaders, including the Final Fantasy VII director, Naoki Hamaguchi and Visions that Ryosuke Yoshida director.
Clair Obsurpur: Game Director 33 Guillaume Broche, producer Francois Meurisse and technical director Tom Guillermin, as well as the general director of the publisher Kepler Interactive, Alexis Garavaryan, went on a trip to visit the Final Fantasy Publisher office. On a social positionHamaguchi described this as “creatively rich exchange of visions and ideas.”
Guillaume Broche, Francois Meurisse, Tom Guillermin from Sandfall and Alexis Garavaryan from Kepler – Creators of Expedition 33 – saw the Square Enix office for creatively prosperous exchange of visions and ideas.
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Guillaume of Sandfall, creator of Expedition 33 … pic.twitter.com/hihmnyz8c– Remake Hamaguchi naoki / FFVII comes to Switch2 & Xbox🎉 (@nhamaguc) July 24, 2025
Certainly, it often happens that video game developers visit each other and exchange thoughts. Hamaguchi wrote about the director Stellar Blade Hyung-tae Kim Visting Shortly before the interactive Sandfall crew and a lot managed to travel to studies such as Kojima Productions.
Despite this, developers standing for an extremely successful game playing the role visiting the Final Fantasy studio, which was more and more in the field of Action-RPG, will undoubtedly arouse enthusiasm. Despite the fact that games such as Octopath Traveller 2 are quite good, there is always a hunger for returning to the turn, especially in Final Fantasy.
However, put on online discussions and it is really great to see artistic minds in space that connect in this way. The growing wave can raise all ships, and one could hope that the exchange of ideas will have positive results of both future Square Enix projects and all interactive Sandfall, which will achieve the next one.
Regardless, it will probably take at least some time before we start to hear about the successor of Clair Obscura Or Another Final Fantasy in remake VII Continuum or Final Fantasy XVII. A lot of time to experience what is not going now, think about and think about potential role playing games.
Eric is an independent IGN writer.
