{"id":869293,"date":"2025-08-31T01:11:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T06:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/31\/final-fantasy-14s-yoshi-p-is-a-maniac-about-one-piece-but-his-dream-collab-is-still-the-rpg-hes-spent-1000s-of-hours-in-i-love-diablo-so-much-that-i-would-want-to-make-a-diablo-game-myself\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T01:11:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T06:11:58","slug":"final-fantasy-14s-yoshi-p-is-a-maniac-about-one-piece-but-his-dream-collab-is-still-the-rpg-hes-spent-1000s-of-hours-in-i-love-diablo-so-much-that-i-would-want-to-make-a-diablo-game-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/31\/final-fantasy-14s-yoshi-p-is-a-maniac-about-one-piece-but-his-dream-collab-is-still-the-rpg-hes-spent-1000s-of-hours-in-i-love-diablo-so-much-that-i-would-want-to-make-a-diablo-game-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy 14&#8217;s Yoshi-P is &#8220;a maniac about One Piece,&#8221; but his dream collab is still the RPG he&#8217;s spent 1000s of hours in: &#8220;I love Diablo so much that I would want to make a Diablo game myself&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment <\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p id=\"d0969493-60ca-488b-bbb1-a40c83ae965f\">Final Fantasy 14 and Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki &#8216;Yoshi-P&#8217; Yoshida loves Diablo so much, he doesn&#8217;t just want to collaborate with the series. Heck, he&#8217;s not even content with thousands of hours logged in. He loves the Blizzard RPG so much, he&#8217;d actually quite like to make his own Diablo game.<\/p>\n<p>Final Fantasy is no stranger to crossovers, and MMO Final Fantasy 14 is full of them. Fall Guys. Dragon Quest. Nier. The <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/games\/final-fantasy\/final-fantasy-14-fans-cant-get-enough-of-the-mmos-wonderfully-simple-instructions-on-how-to-access-the-monster-hunter-wilds-crossovers-content-create-a-character-play-roughly-600-hours\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/games\/final-fantasy\/final-fantasy-14-fans-cant-get-enough-of-the-mmos-wonderfully-simple-instructions-on-how-to-access-the-monster-hunter-wilds-crossovers-content-create-a-character-play-roughly-600-hours\/\">Monster Hunter Wilds collab<\/a>. It&#8217;s safe to say the lid has been thoroughly lifted on FF14 crossovers, and we probably haven&#8217;t seen the end of them.<\/p>\n<p id=\"d0969493-60ca-488b-bbb1-a40c83ae965f-2\">In an interview with <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/gaming\/final-fantasy-14-naoki-yoshida-interview-gamescom-2025\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/gaming\/final-fantasy-14-naoki-yoshida-interview-gamescom-2025\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">TechRadar<\/a>, Yoshi-P was asked about his own dream collabs. &#8220;I&#8217;m a maniac about One Piece and I&#8217;m a super fan of Evangelion as well,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Oh, and it goes without saying, but Gundam, too!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He then went on to talk about a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/tag\/blizzard-entertainment\/\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/tag\/blizzard-entertainment\/\">Blizzard Entertainment<\/a> series he&#8217;s praised before. &#8220;But yes, as a fan of Diablo<em>, <\/em>I&#8217;ve spent many thousands of hours playing the game, and I never ever got sick of it. I love Diablo so much that I would want to make a Diablo game myself, and I have huge respect for all the staff working at Blizzard, not only as a gamer, but as a developer. So I really would love to achieve some sort of collaboration with them,&#8221; Yoshi-P explained.<\/p>\n<p>There you have it &#8211; if Yoshi-P could have it his way, Lilith would be plastered all over his MMORPG. (Or maybe he&#8217;d simply be content with more time just chasing loot?) It would be a pipe dream, but the prospect of a Square Enix made Diablo also gets the imagination engines roaring.<\/p>\n<p><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/games\/final-fantasy\/as-final-fantasy-14-fan-fest-dates-leave-fans-worried-the-mmos-next-expansion-might-not-release-until-march-2027-at-the-earliest-yoshi-p-drops-an-ominous-tease-rest-assured-you-wont-have-to-wait-long\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/games\/final-fantasy\/as-final-fantasy-14-fan-fest-dates-leave-fans-worried-the-mmos-next-expansion-might-not-release-until-march-2027-at-the-earliest-yoshi-p-drops-an-ominous-tease-rest-assured-you-wont-have-to-wait-long\/\"><em>As Final Fantasy 14 Fan Fest dates leave fans worried the MMO&#8217;s next expansion might not release until March 2027 at the earliest, Yoshi-P drops an ominous tease: &#8220;Rest assured you won&#8217;t have to wait long&#8221;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-q8yHHiPrszKPiFM2Kat3wa\">\n<section>\n<p>Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/games\/final-fantasy\/final-fantasy-14s-yoshi-p-is-a-maniac-about-one-piece-but-his-dream-collab-is-still-the-rpg-hes-spent-1000s-of-hours-in-i-love-diablo-so-much-that-i-would-want-to-make-a-diablo-game-myself\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Bong Badon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final Fantasy 14 and Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki &#8216;Yoshi-P&#8217; Yoshida loves Diablo so much, he doesn&#8217;t just want to collaborate with the series. Heck, he&#8217;s not even content with thousands of hours logged in. He loves the Blizzard RPG so much, he&#8217;d actually quite like to make his own Diablo game. Final Fantasy is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":869294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22508,1798,584],"tags":[18549,5256],"class_list":{"0":"post-869293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-diablo","8":"category-entertainment","9":"category-final","10":"tag-diablo","11":"tag-final"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}