The Nintendo Switch has a lot of big games on it, and in terms of genres, has a wide variety. If you’re looking for RPGs though, there’s two main companies supporting the system. The first, obviously, is Square Enix, who just released The World Ends With You Final Remix on the system. The other though is Monolith Soft, who is the team behind Xenoblade Chronicles. They released their third main title in the franchise last December, then in September release a prequel in Torna – The Golden Country. And now? They’re recruiting for their next game!
This comes right from their page, and while they had done some job recruiting before, they’re now opening the doors to many more people. The head of Monolith Soft, Tetsuya Takahashi, explained why in a message on the page.
We’re hiring for our foremost project and calling out to all applicants! Now, there may be people who are thinking: “were a bunch of Monolith Soft employees laid off?” Those people can rest easy; there aren’t any “vacancies” in our primary production staff, and everybody’s doing as well as ever. So, why are we recruiting now, then? The answer is quite simple:
We’re low on manpower!
Takahashi explains why they need more people when they can do quite a bit with the people they have:
Compared to other companies’ projects of similar scale, we get a lot done with quite a few people; every individual members’ responsibilities are clear, and there’s a payoff to that. That being said, however, there are things that are just out of our control – little issues that we can’t attend to as attentively. For instance, if somebody gets sick, the remaining team members in the office have to pick up their slack and compensate for it… Things like that.
It’s still a bit unclear as to what Monolith Soft is working on. Teases of a brand-new RPG have been posted (which is what the feature image of this piece is). But other teases make people think that they will continue the Xenoblade Chronicles saga. Guess we’ll find out.
