Level 5 Hires...

[ECM]

...Matsuno!!

Famitsu revealed that Yasumi Matsuno (Final Fantasy XII, Tactics Ogre, Vagrant Story) has joined Level 5 after he left Square Enix. Level 5 CEO Akihiro Hino said he was able to get Matsuno on-board after he completed the Tactics Ogre remake for PSP last year. Matsuno is currently working on a new title with fantasy setting, but the game will have a smaller scale than his works in Square Enix.

Plus this exciting news:

Square Enix revealed that in Final Fantasy XIII-2, you can control the camera angle during event scenes, so you can look at the scene in different perspective.

Uh, hooray?

[feilong80]

lol, that is a microcosm of what is ailing Squeenix, perhaps!

[ECM]

It pretty much is exactly that, but I wonder if they at least came up w/ an interesting 'system' name for it...

(This is a cue for those of you that understand the preceding statement to come up w/ some utterly lunatic name for this essential gameplay feature.)

[elchevalier]

Matsuno working on something new is fantastic. I do worry about him being restricted doing nothing but portable games. Also, according to this he is going to do games "that will be enjoyed not just by Matsuno's fans, but by Matsuno's nieces and nephews, and by kids" I'm not sure about the sound of that.

[CHI]

Is Level 5 high or low?

[ECM]

As high as a kite.