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Team Cherry had to go back to the drawing board for Hollow Knight: Silksong for one simple reason: "Hornet being taller changes everything"
By Austin Wood published
News "Her fighting is so fast, and she's so competent, that it changes the way enemies need to be designed"

Days before Silksong, speedrunner manages "perhaps one of, if not the grandest achievements in Hollow Knight history" with a 2 hour and 49 minute 112% world record
By Austin Wood published
News That's every boss and key item in about 9% of my first playthrough time

No Man's Sky's new update gave players the ultimate spaceship sim, so of course they immediately built a space forklift, Lord of the Rings' iconic tower, and an entire castle
By Issy van der Velde published
News Take to the stars in a, uh, forklift?

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles director open to revisiting the series' Game Boy Advance sequels if the remaster does well, but thinks the strategy RPG playerbase is currently a "bit small"
By Scott McCrae published
News Kazutoyo Maehiro is also open to totally new tactics games

Final Fantasy Tactics remaster makes Cloud easier to use, Square Enix promises, and even gives him the Materia Blade right off the bat, so you'll want to see the secret hiding where it was in the original RPG
By Jordan Gerblick published
News Director Kazutoyo Maehiro admits "he was pretty difficult to utilize as a character" in the original strategy RPG

Team Cherry hoped Silksong could be anyone's "first Hollow Knight game," and one reason it took 7 years is they were "comfortable" not knowing what's gonna happen: "The really interesting things are the things you sort of discover along the way"
By Austin Wood published
News "The difficulty also sits alongside the game in that way," Team Cherry said

Losing Final Fantasy Tactics' source code meant The Ivalice Chronicles devs had to use any available resources to rebuild the remaster, "whether that be the retail copy of the game or the smartphone version"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "It was a little bit of a different struggle than what you might expect if you're creating a game from absolutely nothing"

Final Fantasy 16 Clive actor Ben Starr was "quite nervous" about voicing a villain in Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles because he didn't want to "soil" his contribution to the series
By Catherine Lewis published
News "I didn't want to come back in and do something badly"
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