After successfully pitching the project to Sony, Fantavision was supervised by the company's first-party development head Shuhei Yoshida and was completed by a small team in a short time frame. The game was initially conceived by director Katsuyuki Kanetaka, inspired by the fireworks shows he witnessed in his youth. Used in conjunction with various power-ups, the resulting explosions can ignite and chain together even more flares for additional points.įantavision was created during Sony's transition from its original PlayStation (PS1) to its next generation console. The game's objective is to use a cursor to select three or more launched fireworks (called 'flares') of the same color in a row and then to detonate them to increase the player's score. Fantavision, sometimes stylized as FantaVision, is a puzzle video game developed by Japan Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2 (PS2).
