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Final Fantasy Producer Cites Star Wars as a Key Inspiration for Characters and Mechanics in Franchise

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Final Fantasy Producer Cites Star Wars as a Key Inspiration for Characters and Mechanics in Franchise

Longtime Final Fantasy producer Yoshinori Kitase revealed to IGN that Star Wars was a big influence on the RPG franchise.

When speaking with IGN's Michael Peyton at the Lucca Comics & Games Festival 2026, Kitase was asked how he felt about Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 being heavily influenced by Final Fantasy. He admitted that he was really happy to see a game that was inspired by Square's RPG franchise have so much success, and that he himself is heavily inspired by other entertainment behemoths, too — namely Star Wars.

"To be honest, I know the game," Kitase said of Expedition 33. "I spoke with the creators and I'm actually very happy about the fact that they have been so inspired by Final Fantasy and they created a new game from that. And also, I was inspired by movies and in particular by Star Wars when I was young.

"I took inspiration from many things I was interested in when I was younger, and I used that inspiration to create my games. I think it's beautiful that there's this kind of cycle where we inspire each other and we take things from each other's games. I think it's something beautiful, and it should be like that."

The producer noted that he has always been careful not to lift directly from Star Wars, fearing that it would be too obvious and resemble more of a copy than anything else. However, he did point to a few things in his own work that were born from his love of the sci-fi series.


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