Gary Green said: Tokyo RPG Factory Co., Ltd. was a Japanese game developer and subsidiary of Square Enix, a company well known for its works in the JRPG genre. The company was founded in August 2014 under the name ‘Tokyo Dream Factory’ by Yosuke Matsuda, who became president of Square Enix in 2013. During its lifetime, three JRPG titles were developed to varying degrees of critical and commercial success.
Beginning in March 2013, Square Enix underwent structural and policy changes when Yoichi Wada stepped down as president and was replaced by Yosuke Matsuda. Matsuda wanted to steer the company towards a more “individual” identity for products amid rising production costs and changing consumer demands. During this time, discussions were held internally about setting up a group within the company focused on creating new games inspired by the themes, art and game design of RPGs produced during the genre’s golden age in the 1990s, such as Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy VII-IX, which were hugely popular both inside and outside Japan.
