What elemental attack do you two like the most?Īrai: I personally use a lot of electricity attacks. A fun aspect is that all the characters are connected and can work together so you can create your own party and strategy in each situation. This means that characters with ladders can support archers by getting them to higher ground to cover more area. We want each character to have a purpose. We didn’t want to make the strongest characters be a sword person, a tank, or magic dealer, so tiers were the best option. Why do you feel like it was important to add this mechanic?Īrai: By having those levels or tiered aspects, we could make variations to the characters in the game. Triangle Strategy is different from a lot of tactics games because of the ability to traverse multi-tiered maps. Why are they fighting? What do they want? That was our starting point when thinking about the story. When we think about a conflict, there are at least two groups fighting. We tried to make such a complex subject as easy to understand as possible. We chose the tactics genre and conflict situation to achieve that purpose. Where did the plot come from?Īrai: When we started the project, our concept was to create a story for adult audiences. Each of these characters has their own values and goals that influence the story. When we’re focusing on what the three angles mean, they represent three countries and three other main characters (Frederica, Roland, and Benedict). I’m sure a lot of the American audience has commented on how it’s kind of a weird name, but one of the big things we think about when naming games is that when users see the name of the game, they can understand what kind of game they’re going to be playing. So, for Triangle Strategy, there are three angles in the game. Octo, meaning eight, describes the eight characters with eight paths you can travel down. Where did the name Triangle Strategy come from?Īsano: It actually comes from the same naming convention that we used for the Octopath Traveler game. One of crucial questions directed to the developers is why on earth they decided to finalise the name as Triangle Strategy, once that’s out of the way Nintendo then asked the pair which of the elemental attacks in the game they like the most and also why they decided to give players the ability to traverse multi-tiered maps and much more. Asano helped produce Triangle Strategy and he also served as producer on Bravely Default and Octopath Traveler. Nintendo has published a fresh interview on the Nintendo Switch news channel with Tomoya Asano and Yasuaki Arai who are both part of Square Enix.

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