En av de hetaste exklusiva Switch-titlarna som kommer i år är Monolith Softs lovande rollspel Xenoblade Chronicles 2. I en intervju fick studions grundare och chef, Tetsuya Takahashi, frågan om han skulle vilja återvända till mindre projekt igen i framtiden och bjöd på en del oväntade svar:
"If it was just a simple yes or no question, I would have to say yes, I would love to do something like that. But Monolith in and of itself has grown to be a big company, so we need big projects to sustain that company, for one. At the same time, if for example the next generation of developers and staff that could really handle a big game on their own [arrives]--if that comes up--then I'm kind of free to do whatever I want. When that time comes, I would love to work on maybe smaller projects."
Han fick även frågan om han skulle vilja göra en annan typ av spel är rollspel, och även här överraskade Takahashi rejält:
"Actually, my favorite type of games are first-person shooters. Obviously, I like action games and strategy games. I like RPGs as well, but what happens is when I get involved in creating a game, it makes it hard to enjoy that game. For example, right now it's very hard for me to enjoy RPGs because my perspective becomes that of a creator and not a user, in that I would always think, "Well, why is it this way? They could have done this, or this could have been done that way to improve." It's hard to get back into the user perspective. Although I'm interested in it, if I were to make different genres, then I wouldn't be able to enjoy those."
Det råder inte direkt något överskott på bra förstapersonsaction från japanska utvecklare, skulle du vilja att Tetsuya Takahashi gav det ett försök?
