{"id":298820,"date":"2025-03-25T01:30:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T08:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=351675"},"modified":"2025-07-01T15:04:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:04:46","slug":"the-most-iconic-jrpg-of-the-first-playstation-was-almost-non-existent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-most-iconic-jrpg-of-the-first-playstation-was-almost-non-existent\/","title":{"rendered":"The most iconic JRPG of the first PlayStation was almost non-existent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Japanese role-playing game The Legend of Dragoon, originally released for the PlayStation 1, <strong>has managed to become a cult classic, despite initially being seen as an imitator of the famous Final Fantasy series, especially in relation to Final Fantasy 7.<\/strong> Developed by a team of 100 people, many of whom were recent graduates, and with a budget of 15 million dollars, this title was the result of its creators&#8217; passion for providing an original experience.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It was the result of the efforts of Shuhei Yoshida and the team he formed<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shuhei Yoshida, producer of the game and former head of PlayStation Studios, recalls that the creative freedom he received from Sony was crucial in bringing his team together. <strong>Among his hires was Yasuyuki Hasebe, combat designer and one of the key figures in the game&#8217;s development, although he left the industry shortly after its release<\/strong>. Hasebe had previously worked at Squaresoft on the design of video games like Mario RPG, which influenced the development of the combat system in The Legend of Dragoon.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Legend of Dragoon trailer\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZRARGkg1C8Q?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><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a recent interview, Yoshida shared anecdotes about the creation of the title. Despite comparisons to Final Fantasy 7, the team focused on developing its own style and narrative; <strong>&#8220;We were not told to make any kind of game. We wanted to make this game,&#8221; Yoshida stated<\/strong>. This dedication has remained alive, evidenced by the relaunch of the game on PS5 in 2023, which reaffirms its popularity among fans.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite his status as a fan favorite, <strong>Hasebe retired from the industry just weeks after the game&#8217;s release<\/strong>. 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Developed by a team of 100 people, many of them recent graduates, and with a budget of 15 million dollars, this title was the result of its creators&#8217; passion for providing an original experience. It was the result of the efforts of Shuhei Yoshida and the team that Shuhei Yoshida formed, producer of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9318,"featured_media":298822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1018,1015],"tags":[1566,5275,9739,1403,9740,6147,9741,9742,9743],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6823],"class_list":["post-298820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-news","tag-final-fantasy","tag-final-fantasy-7","tag-mario-rpg","tag-playstation","tag-playstation-1","tag-shuhei-yoshida","tag-squaresoft","tag-the-legend-of-dragoon","tag-yasuyuki-hasebe","content-category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308548,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298820\/revisions\/308548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298820"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=298820"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=298820"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=298820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}