“The series does lend itself well to that kind of storytelling, and we love Tactics as well. It’s probably about time that we do a new one,” says Naoki Yoshida.

A potential remaster of Final Fantasy Tactics has been in the rumour mill for several years at this point, and even though official word on whether or not it exists remains elusive, Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida – who’s also the director and producer of Final Fantasy 14 – has indicated that he, at the very least, is personally interested in seeing Final Fantasy Tactics be brought back.

In a recent interview with TheGamer, when asked about whether there was any likelihood of seeing a Tactics spinoff for Final Fantasy 16, Yoshida said that though FF16’s setting and core mechanics wouldn’t lend themselves to a tactics game very well, the series as a whole does fit that genre, adding that it’s “probably about time” a new Tactics game was developed.

“How would we even do the Eikon versus Eikon battles in that style?” Yoshida said. “If you have the Eikons, how many squares is an Eikon going to be? You have more people out there as well, so what about the wait time in between? … But the series does lend itself well to that kind of storytelling, and we love Tactics as well. It’s probably about time that we do a new one.”

Final Fantasy Tactics remaster was first spotted in a massive list of unannounced titles in 2021’s GeForce Now leak. In February last year, journalist Jason Schreier seemed to reaffirm the game’s existence, but later in the year, Final Fantasy Tactics creator Yasumi Matsuno said there were no “current” plans to bring the series back.