“Square collapsed after he left.” Final Fantasy composer on how Hironobu Sakaguchi’s innate leadership skills held the company together - AUTOMATON WEST
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Final Fantasy composer opens up about how FF original creator Sakaguchi's department from Square affected him and the development team.
    • Th3D3k0y@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I had a long conversation the other day about the maps in FFX being a huge turn off for me. I also recognize that effectively nothing actually changed from roaming a world map, and roaming a regional map that you selected from the world, but for some inane reason I couldn’t get past it.

      That being said, FF6 is my favorite. FFXII ai control holds a special place in my heart as well, even though the rest of the game was completely forgettable.

    • Omega@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      FFX is tied as my favorite game of all time. It’s the only other game consistently talked about as being the best in the series along with VII.

      It sucks that the delay caused him to quit. But also, I’m glad it got delayed if it meant that we got the final product that we did.

    • 2fm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Hadn’t run through X since original launch, but was it the first FF with active battles? No more turn based? Or was it 12 that more-or-less abandoned turn based battles? (Never played 11)

      • Omega@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        8 months ago

        X actually went back to fully turn-based, getting rid of the ATB.

        XII still had the ATB, but you could move freely in the environment and all enemies were already there. So no more random battles.

        XV was the first mainline Final Fantasy with active battles. But games like Crisis Core, Dirge of Cerberus, and Lightning Returns had it earlier.