Demon's Souls PS5 Director Leaves PlayStation After 24 Years

@IkariX I recently Played the Final Fantasy 7 original for the first time After playing FF7 Remake Part 1 and I didnt enjoy the original at all,It wasnt as good as FF8. However My Current favorite FF game so far is FF16.I also feel like you cant really compare the original to the remake trilogy untill the trilogy is complete.

IkariX

23 September at 22:04

I still can't get over what an amazing game Blood Of Dawnwalker was. I feel depressed now after finishing it. Everything is so well done in the game, side quest and all.

Zombia

23 September at 21:56

Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave is so good! Nintendo is delivering banger after banger after banger here. A generational run really while a certain other company flounders in the gutter

HaseoVII

23 September at 19:18

I heard P4R has removed the hot spring scenes smh...

HaseoVII

23 September at 19:15

I haven't even touched Rebirth yet lol and I really enjoy the Remake stuff, even more so because it's a sequel to the original, but FF has gone downhill overall imo. Trails is my current favourite JRPG series, and it's really not even a close competition.

Tea

23 September at 17:50

hey guys! We ahve startded dispatching the Silent Hill Townfall day 1 editions, with steelbooks to follow as soon as available.

If you ordered day 1 edition for collection, that will be available for launch day - on Friday morning

IkariX

23 September at 16:06

@deathkid

No one is stopping you from enjoying the FFVII Reamke games. But my point still stands, it's poorly written fanfiction. First time I played Final Fantasy VII was in 1999. Final Fantasy VII and Resident Evil 1(I still have both), were my first 2 PlayStation 1 games. So I've played Final Fantasy VII numerous times over the years. What what the Remake games are, are nothing more than imitators.

It's mass market slop at it's finest. Does it make it terrible games? Not at all, Remake Part 1 was fairly decent. But let's not pretend that any of the remake games are as good as the original. I hope Square Enix doesn't touch Final Fantasy VIII. Because they'll ruin that as well.

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Demon's Souls PS5 Director Leaves PlayStation After 24 Years

by Sam Aberdeen on 01 April, 2021

Demon's Souls PS5 director, Gavin Moore, has announced that he is leaving Sony PlayStation after 24 years with the company. Moore confirmed the news in a recent tweet (sourced by VGC), stating "After 24 years at Sony and 18 of those in Japan, yesterday was my last day at #JAPANStudio. I will miss the great creative spirit and camaraderie of the studio that was a huge part of my life. Time to seek out new and exciting opportunities!"

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Moore spent at least 18 of his 24 years in Japan, also talking about the struggles of working and living in the country as a foreigner. "I think the challenges are the way that the working practices here are different here from in the west. It’s very common for any team member in the west to speak up and speak their mind."

"It’s not so common in a Japanese development team," Moore continued. "But it is something in Japan Studio that we worked on very heavily to make sure that everyone has a say in the development of the game and to say, ‘it’s OK to speak up and to speak your mind and be creative’. Everybody who works in games is very creative and if we’re not listening to them then we’re losing a precious resource."

Previously, Sony announced that they would be closing the doors on Japan Studio, who had a long history at PlayStation previously working on Knack, Ape Escape, Gravity Rush and the Siren series' of video games. Moore's last project with PlayStation was serving as a creative director for 2020's PlayStation 5 launch title, Demon's Souls, Bluepoint's remake of From Software's legendary action-RPG.

As PlayStation continues to bolster its Worldwide Studios, we're still left wondering if they'll make good on their promise to support Japanese studios as well.

Sam Aberdeen

Writer. Enthusiast of all things geek. Legend has it he completed Final Fantasy VII without a memory card.

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Lurch

Sony has at least moved back to promote indies more often, so maybe we'll see spiritual sequels to some of these games coming from smaller studios headed up by the former staff?

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