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.”

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

    Or maybe spirits within could’ve simply never come out.

    I remember when I watched it thinking I was going to get some awesome fantasy, only to then have a straight up sci-fi movie dropped on us and not even based on anything I recognized from any of the games. The graphics were absolutely phenomenal (for the time), but I could barely comprehend the story and none of it felt like a final fantasy story.