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Famitsu's Final Fantasy IV DS Interview (Tomoya Asano and Takashi Tokita)

Tomoya, Asano,, Tokita, Takashi, and Xcomp (translator). 2007. “Famitsu's Final Fantasy IV DS Interview (Tomoya Asano and Takashi Tokita).” Famitsu, 25 May 2007; English translation by Xcomp at GameBrink, 31 May 2007. Enterbrain.

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Famitsu, FFIV DS interview
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Interview with producer Tomoya Asano and director Takashi Tokita in Famitsu; English translation by Xcomp, posted at GameBrink on 31 May 2007. The archived copy is the translation, not the Japanese original.
Notes
Tokita is introduced as the planner of the original Super Famicom game who wrote its scenarios and events; he says he wrote all the scenarios himself and created the game events alone. He also says the in-game characters for the DS remake follow Yoshitaka Amano's designs, and that the Super Famicom let Amano realize his world more fully. Asano names Hiroyuki Itou as the battle-system supervisor for the remake.

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Famitsu's 2007 interview, in Xcomp's English translation, introduces Takashi Tokita as the planner of the original Super Famicom game, who wrote its scenarios and events. Tokita said he created all the game's events alone as planner, also drew pixel art, and wrote all the scenarios himself; only a quarter of the scenarios written were used in the Super Famicom version.introductionTokita, on being one of the original staffTokita, on his part in the remakeTokita, on the new eventsInterview
Tokita, in Xcomp's English translation of the 2007 Famitsu interview, called the game a compilation of the best of the first three: its characters are portrayed through Final Fantasy III's jobs, its story element comes from Final Fantasy II, and its Four Fiends are the counterpart of Final Fantasy's four Chaos.Tokita, on the best thing about FFIVInterview
Tokita said, in Xcomp's English translation of the 2007 Famitsu interview, that the Super Famicom, compared with the Famicom, let Yoshitaka Amano realize his world, so Amano put great effort into his Final Fantasy IV characters, to which he is attached.Tokita, on the logoInterview
Producer Tomoya Asano said in 2007, in Xcomp's English translation of the Famitsu interview, that Matrix, the developer of the Nintendo DS Final Fantasy III, would make the remake, with Tokita directing and Hiroyuki Itou supervising the battle system.Asano, on the development teamInterview