Xenoblade developer Monolith Soft is hiring for a new RPG - leaving some fans to worry what happened to the action game it announced 7 years ago
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Xenoblade Chronicles' series director is hiring for a new RPG, but Monolith Soft fans are wondering what happened to the studio’s previously-announced action game.
As first reported byGematsu, Tetsuya Takahashi, studio founder and executive director on the Xenoblade Chronicles series, posted on Monolith Soft’swebsiteto reveal he was on the hunt for staff to work on a new RPG. Takahashi couldn’t go into much detail on the game itself, but stated that it would provide new challenges compared to past Monolith Soft games.
At the time of writing, Monolith Soft is on the hunt for a 2D staff designer, a 3D CG character designer, a 3D CD map designer, a development environment engineer, a field level designer, an assistant director, an in-game animator, and an effects designer. All of these new roles will work under Takahashi on the studio’s forthcoming RPG.
It’s worth pointing out that the original recruitment pages for the action game have since been deleted from Monolith Soft’s website. This doesn’t mean the game has been canceled by any means, as the studio could’ve simply taken the pages down once the roles were filled, but it’s still causing some to speculate about the fate of the game.
Just earlier this year, Takahashi said in a Monolith Soft company brochure thatits “aim for higher quality will never change,“despite the fact that the studio has already made some of the greatest RPGs ever. Whatever the developer’s next game is, it’s clearly still intent on pushing itself further after Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and its DLC marked a fantastic conclusion to the series.
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