Beloved PS1 JRPG Legend of Dragoon wasn’t meant to be a Ultimate Fantasy 7 killer, Tremendous Mario RPG’s battle designer simply mentioned “I wish to make a brand new RPG”

Whereas Sony‘s late-era PS1 JRPG The Legend of Dragoon turned a cult traditional, it was usually seen on the time as fairly direct imitator of the Ultimate Fantasy collection. Whereas the success of Sq.’s role-playing collection would possibly’ve helped persuade PlayStation to foot the invoice for its $15 million improvement price range, Legend of Dragoon solely occurred within the first place as a result of its builders genuinely wished to make it.

Former PlayStation Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida, who served as producer on Legend of Dragoon throughout his tenure with the corporate, felt so strongly in regards to the JRPG that he as soon as crashed a stream of the sport from gaming character Kyle Bosman. Bosman urged that Legend of Dragoon was meant to be Sony’s “personal Ultimate Fantasy 7,” and Yoshida appeared in Twitch chat to say “Nobody advised us to make any type of recreation. We wished to make this recreation.”