The biggest story from the latest issue of Famitsu magazine isn’t about a game at all — it’s news of a job transfer that could have major impact for anyone who loves console strategy RPGs.
Yasumi Matsuno, creator of Ogre Battle, Tactics Ogre and the Final Fantasy Tactics series, has reportedly taken a new job with Level-5, the Fukuoka-based publisher of both hardcore RPGs (White Knight Chronicles) and more casual stuff like Inazuma Eleven and the Professor Layton series. Matsuno was personally invited to the outfit by Level-5 founder and president Akihiro Hino, who said it’d offer the designer an opportunity to work on stuff he’s never had a chance to before, according to Famitsu.
While neither Hino nor Matsuno commented in depth on what they might work on, Hino stated that it won’t take two years or so for the next Matsuno project to come out and that it could be “something that the nieces and nephews of Matsuno fans might also enjoy.”
