{"id":18880,"date":"2023-05-15T17:25:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T08:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=18880"},"modified":"2023-05-15T17:26:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T08:26:13","slug":"20230515-18880","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230515-18880\/","title":{"rendered":"Naoki Yoshida spotted playing Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom during FFXIV broadcast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><br>Square Enix held the Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LXXVII broadcast on May 12 to announce new information about patch 6.4 of Final Fantasy XIV (hereinafter referred to as FFXIV). During the broadcast, it was announced that patch 6.4 will be released on May 23, and the patch\u2019s new content was detailed via actual gameplay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, this livestream ended up causing the words <strong>\u5409\u7530\u30bc\u30eb\u30c0 (Yoshida Zelda) to start trending on Twitter in Japan<\/strong> thanks to FFXIV producer and director Naoki Yoshida making an appearance while playing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on his Nintendo Switch. This happened during a test stream meant for audio and video adjustments before the main broadcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FINAL FANTASY XIV Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LXXVII\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4i8PijfPKIs?start=743&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">* The relevant section begins at around the 12 min 20 sec mark.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The video and audio adjustment during the test stream was being done by FFXIV global community producer Toshio Murouchi. However, Yoshida, who would normally be sitting at Murouchi\u2019s side, was nowhere to be seen. That in itself was not particularly strange, as they were still only testing the stream at that point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once preparations were almost done, Murouchi turned toward Yoshida\u2014still off-screen\u2014and said, \u201cYoshida, don\u2019t you think it\u2019s about time you joined me?\u201d This was met with only a rather vague \u201cYeah&#8230;\u201d from Yoshida. Viewers likely assumed that Yoshida may have been in the middle of some kind of task\u2014he is, after all, working on a major patch for FFXIV in addition to serving as producer on Final Fantasy XVI, which itself is only just over a month away from release. But when he finally appeared on camera, Yoshida was holding a Nintendo Switch. With a serious expression on his face, he continued to play and, without taking his eyes off the screen, started the mic test by saying, \u201cTesting, testing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, Murouchi calmly asked, \u201cI know that today is the day for saving the world, but don\u2019t you think it\u2019s about time?\u201d but Yoshida just turned his head towards Murouchi and gave a contrived \u201chuh?\u201d When Murouchi amusedly pointed out that the golden-colored Switch in Yoshida\u2019s hands was the Tears of the Kingdom special edition model, Yoshida proudly replied, \u201cIsn\u2019t it great?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Viewers were quite taken with this amicable little exchange, and it caused \u201cYoshida Zelda\u201d to trend on Twitter in Japan for a time. The fact that Yoshida, a director and executive officer at Square Enix, was so engrossed in the latest depiction of Hyrule seemed to draw a lot of attention from the gaming community. Yoshida mentioned that when playing Tears of the Kingdom, there are many things that he is curious about from a developer\u2019s perspective, so he hasn\u2019t made much progress through the game. Nintendo\u2019s long-awaited new Zelda title seems to have impressed Yoshida, both as a gamer and as a developer.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"563\" height=\"103\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230513-247244-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230513-247244-001.jpg 563w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230513-247244-001-380x70.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230513-247244-001-150x27.jpg 150w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230513-247244-001-300x55.jpg 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Patch 6.4 for FFXIV is scheduled to be released on May 23. For those hoping to complete The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and get as much enjoyment out of it as they can before the patch arrives, efficient management of their free time will be very important. We hope that players who will be traveling back and forth between Eorzea and Hyrule will be able to fully enjoy both worlds.<br><br><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">\u00a9 SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved.<br><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\"><em>Written by. Marco Farinaccia based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/20230513-247244\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original Japanese article<\/a> (original article&#8217;s publication date: 2023-05-13 09:06 JST)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Yoshida Zelda&#8221; started to trend on Twitter in Japan thanks to FFXIV producer and director Naoki Yoshida making an appearance in a livestream while playing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on his Nintendo Switch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,3],"tags":[36,63],"class_list":["post-18880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-final-fantasy","category-news","tag-final-fantasy","tag-zelda"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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