Final Fantasy Composer Says Square-Enix 'Collapsed' After Merger
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Hold onto your Chocobos, because Nobuo Uematsu just dropped a bombshell more dramatic than a Final Fantasy plot twist: Square-Enix “collapsed” after Sakaguchi left. Here’s how the post-merger chaos unfolded—and how the company rose from the ashes. Here’s the TL;DR… Nobuo Uematsu says Square-Enix “collapsed” after Sakaguchi quit in 2003 His comments highlight the post-merger […]

The legendary composer credited Sakaguchi’s natural leadership:

“We didn’t even have a proper corporate organisation, yet everybody listened to him. It’s a kind of quality you just have to be born with.”

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    15·
    4 months ago

    Live reaction of general US and European moviegoing audiences in 1998 trying to comprehend the nonsense that is Advent Children

    confusion

    Wouldn’t have done much better than Spirits Within probably. Both movies are boring, unwatchable garbage

    • SevenSkalls [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      11·
      4 months ago

      The only good thing about Advent Children was some of the fight choreography, like the cool Tifa fight and Cloud’s sword motorcycle. The story and what they did to all the characters was terrible.

        • SevenSkalls [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          That and leaving his daughter with Cloud and Tifa. Especially since I’ve played FF7: Rebirth, where Barrett goes through a little arc about taking care of his adopted daughter and wanting to be better at it. After leaving her frequently during his dangerous job as a member of AVALANCHE or the events of FF7, you think he’d choose to spend more time with her. (I know people have complaints about the new games, but that’s one of the things I actually thought they improved over the original - except for the end of Dyne and the placement of a comedic fight there.)

          I think they were just determined to thrust Cloud and Tifa in a little family and so took Marlene from Barrett and gave her to them.

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        8·
        4 months ago

        The story and what they did to all the characters was terrible.

        This is basically how I feel about all FFVII media after the original game. Just completely lacking the tone and charm

      • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        5·
        4 months ago

        To be fair while the movie had a terrible story, I always felt the tie-in prequel games were not too shabby in the story department; I’m guessing they probably felt guilty springing some powerful character called Sephiroth without first telling us who he was, but man, almost twenty years later people probably forgot the movie even existed