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I Am Bored
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/13/2021
In 2015, Square-Enix excited RPG fans everywhere by rededicating themselves to the videogame genre that made both Squaresoft and Enix into titans of the industry. Tokyo RPG Factory was to be an Indie-style development studio, free of the corporate structure of the main Square-Enix, and lead by long time company veterans who were around during the Golden Age of RPGs in the 16-bit era. Furthermore, staffers wouldn’t be ‘assigned’ to work on Tokyo RPG Factory projects, but would do so of their own volition, giving game designers who would otherwise be mere corporate drones some real freedom and agency.
The first game off The Factory’s conveyor belt was “I Am Setsuna” (“Setsuna”), which was released after a mere year of work by the dev team. While “Setsuna” was never …
