制作人不喜欢《最终幻想16》被称为JRPG游戏

许多玩家认为《最终幻想》系列是JRPG的代表，不过吉田直树并不认为这是对开发人员的恭维，也不喜欢这个词，认为背后具有“歧视性”。

在吉田直树看来这是对所有日本游戏开发者的“嘲笑”，将他们创造的东西都装到一个名为JRPG的盒子里，然后从RPG类别里剥离出来，而且词汇本身的起源是带有羞辱性的，西方媒体和玩家认为部分日本RPG游戏不符合他们认可的“RPG游戏标准”，从而创造出JRPG特意进行分类，即便今天有时会用于正面的例子。

去年11月，吉田直树在一次采访中表示，《最终幻想16》中不会有黑人角色，理由则是“游戏的世界基于中世纪欧洲设计，如果非要在游戏里纠结人种多样性，会破坏游戏的叙事结构框架”。这种解释引来了部分黑人玩家的抨击，至今仍有人揪着“多样性”不肯罢休，要求官方作出反省。最近的采访里，媒体就该问题再次向吉田直树发问。

这次吉田直树没有直接回答这个问题，表示游戏开发团队在“文化多样性”上已经做出了巨大的努力，对世界各地的各种文化和价值体系进行了大量研究和调查，最终以极大的尊重和关怀融入到广阔的幻想叙事和世界。吉田直树称，不同的人对这段回答反应可能不同，每个人对“多样性”一词的理解也会有自己的想法。

Final Fantasy XVI's producer Naoki Yoshida recently shared that he doesn't like the term "JRPG" when referring to the role-playing games Square Enix creates. Ahead of the release of the next mainline Final Fantasy game, the producer has sat down with multiple media publications to discuss the upcoming entry. During a particular interview with Skill-Up, Yoshida talked about creating Final Fantasy XVI for both longtime fans of the series and new players, as well as how this specific entry broadens the potential audience of players. At one point, Skill-Up asked Yoshida about a previous comment he made about how the action game genre has advanced and was now the norm, and if he was implying the JRPGs hadn't advanced in the same way. Skill-Up explained that it seemed Yoshida didn't like the phrasing of the question, to which his translator said, "The thing that [Yoshida] wants to get across is that when we are creating games, at least with our team, we don’t go into them thinking that we’re going to be creating JRPGs, we just go into them thinking we’re going to create RPGs." When asked to elaborate, Yoshida said, "This is going to depend on who you ask but there was a time when this term first appeared 15 years ago, and for us as developers the first time we heard it, it was like a discriminatory term. As though we were being made fun of for creating these games, and so for some developers, the term JRPG can be something that will maybe trigger bad feelings because of what it was in the past. "It wasn’t a compliment to a lot of developers in Japan," he continued. "We understand that recently, JRPG has better connotations and it’s being used as a positive but we still remember the time when it was used as a negative." Final Fantasy XVI is set to launch on June 22 for PS5. Yoshida recently confirmed that although the game does have a six-month exclusivity deal on the PS5, the PC version won't launch after that period.