Xenoblade Chronicles' series director is hiring for a new RPG, but Monolith Soft fans are wondering what happened to the studio's previously-announced action game. As first reported by Gematsu , Tetsuya Takahashi, studio founder and executive director on the Xenoblade Chronicles series, posted on Monolith Soft's website to reveal he was on the hunt for staff to work on a new RPG. Takahashi couldn't go into much detail on the game itself, but stated that it would provide new challenges compared to past Monolith Soft games.
At the time of writing, Monolith Soft is on the hunt for a 2D staff designer, a 3D CG character designer, a 3D CD map designer, a development environment engineer, a field level designer, an assistant director, an in-game animator, and an effects designer. All of these new roles will work under Takahashi on the studio's forthcoming RPG. You can probably imagine how Xenoblade fans will react to this news.
Even if a new Xenoblade game hasn't been directly confirmed in the job listings, the role of 'field designer' in particular will likely give fans a lot of hope for a new entry in the Xenoblade series. Takahashi said in 2022 that Xenoblade Chronicles 3 would be a "stopping point" for the series , but not the end. However, this new announcement has some Monolith Soft fans wondering what happened to the studio's new IP, announced in 2017.
As reported by Automaton Media , the new action game was announced in the tweet below, with concept art showing a female kni.