Square Enix producer Yoshinori Kitase has dismissed fears that Final Fantasy XIII's science-fiction environment will become a mainstay for the series

Asked whether the futuristic aesthetic would be present in upcoming titles, Kitase said: "We don’t really think of it as sticking with one setting or another. When a new Final Fantasy is started we have in mind that we aren’t going to do something the same as last time."

"We don’t want to repeat the same setting or style," he added. "Final Fantasy XII was not very Sci-Fi as you probably know, so we wanted to make XIII more Sci-Fi to make it different. That doesn’t mean though that we’ll do Sci-Fi again with the next game."

Read the full interview here or check out our Final Fantasy XIII import review, and look out for our review of the western release soon on NowGamer...