Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth producer Yoshinori Kitase and creative director Tetsuya Nomura have discussed the term JRPG, and shared contrasting opinions.
Debate around the term JRPG was sparked by Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida when interviewed by Skill-Up during previews of the game in February.
Kitase and Nomura are hard at work finishing up Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth ahead of its PlayStation 5 release on February 29th next year.
“Certainly, when we started doing interviews for the games that I started making, no one used that term – they just called them RPGs.