“Final Fantasy The culprit is none other than another legendary work “Kingdom Hearts”. Square Enix legendary producer Yoshinori Kitase recently revealed that a large number of the company’s core members were transferred to the development of “Kingdom Hearts”, which made it difficult to even form a team for “Final Fantasy X” at the beginning.
Tetsuya Nomura was transferred and had to find someone else
In an interview for the 25th anniversary of “Final Fantasy
Without this group of veterans, the team could only look for new leaders who could be responsible for core technologies such as 3D CG, character models, scenes and animation, and at the same time promote more young members to take over important positions before finally forming the “Final Fantasy X” development team.
Two IPs compete for talents, but unexpectedly create two classics!
Looking back, this “robbing incident” turned out to be a beautiful accident in the history of gaming. “Kingdom Hearts” eventually became one of Square Enix’s most successful new IPs, and “Final Fantasy
It can only be said that the biggest headache for Square back then was not that the game was not good, but that the two masterpieces collided and there was simply not enough talent. Looking back now, this internal scheduling of “one’s own people robbing one’s own people” ended up giving birth to two JRPG legends that have influenced today.