Yasumi Matsuno



The Yasumi Matsuno team may have disbanded after Final Fantasy XII. They worked together on five games consecutively, in which the team was basically exactly the same each time. Y.M. was the Producer, Director, and Scenario Writer for most of FF XII's production before leaving. I wonder what's next for this team. Here's the five games that the team has worked on...
Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together
Final Fantasy Tactics
Vagrant Story
Final Fantasy XII

There are also other games, made by some of the members of this team that are already out or are coming out. These games are not made by the full Yasumi Matsuno team...
Magical Chase, Ogre Battle 64, Ogre Battle Gaiden, Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Final Fantasy Tactics(PSP), Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings, Final Fantasy Tactics A2

Here's what person filled which role in each of the five Yasumi Matsuno game teams...
Producer: Various
Director: Yasumi Matsuno
Game Designer: Yasumi Matsuno
Scenario Writer: Yasumi Matsuno
Character Designer: Akihiko Yoshida
Art Director: Hiroshi Minagawa
Composer: Hitoshi Sakimoto and sometimes Masaharu Iwata

Here's what next for those people...
Yasumi Matsuno: Working with Nintendo on a new Wii Rpg, and has taken some members of Monolith Soft(Xenosaga 1-3) with him
Akihiko Yoshida: Wikipedia shows FF III(DS Remake) and FF Tactics(PSP Remake)
Hiroshi Minagawa: Wikipedia doesn't show anything
Hitoshi Sakimoto: Various stuff(Odin Sphere, GrimGrimoire, Deltora Quest, FF T[PSP], FF XII: RW, Final Fantasy Tactics A2, ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat, Opoona)
Masaharu Iwata: FF T(PSP), Odin Sphere

We know what Yasumi Matsuno is doing now. Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata are composers and are free to join up with Yasumi Matsuno again easily I think. I wonder what Akihiko Yoshida and Hiroshi Minagawa are up to?

Let's say a new Wii rpg is announced, with these credits...
Producer: Yasumi Matsuno, or Shigeru Miyamoto
Director: Yasumi Matsuno
Game Design: Yasumi Matsuno
Scenario Writer: Yasumi Matsuno
Character Designer: Akihiko Yoshida
Art Director: Hiroshi Minagawa
Composers: Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata

If an announcement like that is made, it will be extremely ultimate for me and everybody else! Do you think this can or will happen? What are your thought on this situation? :)

How in the hell has nobody responded to this? This is my favorite topic now as I am a HUGE fan of Yasumi Matsuno and his team. I'm proud to say that I own everything that he has made/produced. Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata are my favorite composers as I own all their soundtracks (Legit) except for Radiant Silvergun which is next to impossible to obtain.
Now, the Wii RPG that he is making, I hope something is announced at this Years Tokyo Game Show in October. I would mark out if it was a new Ogre game but thats impossible since Square-Enix bought that IP. Honestly, I would love to see a Vagrant Story sequel since there is room for another.

I don't think anyone cared at that point. Personally I've only liked a few of the games attached to this team, namely Vagrant Story, Ogre Battle, and FFTactics so I'm not exactly eager.

As for Matsuno's current work, I'd like to hear something more concrete before adding to the speculation because right now it could be anything. As to the question of the untitled game's staff, if we're still going by Wikipedia it states that both Matsuno and Sakimoto are both involved with the upcoming game. Besides that, there seems to be very little relevant information/articles/news blurbs surrounding the topic since 2007.

Besides that, I believe mandatory flaming usually accompanies the revival of old threads with irrelevant information. Someone else can handle that.

How in the hell has nobody responded to this?
Dragonsoul makes a lot of threads.

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