Final Fantasy Type-0
While working on "Final Fantasy XV", Tabata decided to make a high-definition remaster of "Type-0" for eighth-generation consoles. Developed by Square Enix and HexaDrive, "Final Fantasy Type-0 HD" was originally announced at E3 2014, and released worldwide in March 2015. After "Type-0"s release, Tabata stated in an interview that he wished to explore the distant history of Orience after the events of the game. Trademarks for "Type-1", "Type-2" and "Type-3" were registered shortly after the "Type-0" trademark, but it was suggested that they were simply a protective measure. During interviews given in 2014, Tabata commented that he wished to work on "Type-1" after completing "XV", and later explained the conceptual "Type" series as a means of publishing "Final Fantasy" games too experimental for the main series. He hoped to continue with the "Type" series if "Type-0 HD" was commercially successful.
Music of the Final Fantasy series
"Final Fantasy X-2" (2003), was the first direct video game sequel to any "Final Fantasy" game. Despite having composed the majority of the soundtrack for "Final Fantasy X", Nobuo Uematsu did not contribute any music to the project. No tracks from "X" or other games in the series were used in the game. In an attempt to make a different style of music for the game than previous franchise titles, Square brought Noriko Matsueda and Takahito Eguchi on board to compose the music for "X-2", as the developers felt they were the "perfect fit" to incorporate a "pop" style into the music. The game includes two songs with vocalized elements, one of which, the J-Pop song "real Emotion", was written by Ken Kato and composed by Kazuhiro Hara. The other, J-Pop ballad "1000 Words", was written by scenario writers Kazushige Nojima and Daisuke Watanabe. Matsueda and Eguchi composed and arranged the track. Both songs were sung by Jade Villalon from Sweetbox in the English version of the game, and are available as bonus tracks on the Japanese release of her album "Adagio". In the Japanese version of the game both the songs were sung by Kumi Koda and were released as a single entitled "real Emotion/1000 no Kotoba". Koda also released her own English versions of the songs on her CD single "Come with Me", with slightly different versions of the lyrics than Jade. In addition to "Come with Me", the collection of music for "Final Fantasy X-2" includes the two-disc soundtrack album, a piano album, a soundtrack album for the "Final Fantasy X-2 International + Last Mission" version of the game, a single for the song "Eternity ~ Memory of Lightwaves", and a set of three singles themed around the three main characters of the game.