https://automaton-media.com/en/news/nihon-falcom-is-aiming-for-one-flagship-ip-entry-and-one-younger-staff-led-game-every-year-ceo-says-the-studio-needs-to-cultivate-its-successors/ AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo. Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:46:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://automaton-media.com/en/news/nihon-falcom-is-aiming-for-one-flagship-ip-entry-and-one-younger-staff-led-game-every-year-ceo-says-the-studio-needs-to-cultivate-its-successors/#comment-9202 Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:46:28 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=69639#comment-9202 Just finished ys 8 a few hours ago, now I only have 7 and 10 to go. I beat trails fc on PSP an eon ago, always meant to get back to the series, but they literally put out top quality games faster than I can keep up. Apparently they officially support English language novelizations of the ys games, which is wild. Falcom deserves all the success in the world, and I hope they raise a new generation of genius devs.

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