1up's: A day in the life of Nobuo Uematsu

[Anza]

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3166165

I personally really love his work, and found this to be a good read. Theres also a link to the article they did on Yoshitaka Amano there for those of you who missed that.

[Exoduso]

Kind of a boring video honestly... it didn't say anything new, didn't even talk about the whole leaving Square and joining with Sakaguchi to create Mistwalker.. ;x And god that interviewer guy was annoying.. "like" and "you know" every other word.

[Anza]

page 2?

[Akiyama]

Yeah. Not sure if you noticed or had time, but there are pages 2-11 to think about. >.>; Also, I think 3 parts to the video itself. I'm about to start video 2. =P

[Gobo]

1UP: What made you finally decide to leave Square altogether? Was it just that you wanted more creative freedom or you didn't want to be tied down to Final Fantasy projects specifically? Or maybe you didn't like the direction the company was going in when they merged with Enix? What made you want to break out and form your own company like Dog Ear Records and Smile Please?

KY: [In Japanese] This is probably the question that everyone wants to ask the most...

NU: [In Japanese] The answer's not going to be that exciting.

KY: [In Japanese] I haven't even asked it yet. [Laughs]

NU: It's not exciting at all. I don't even know if you're going to be convinced with it. It's because the SquareEnix office moved from Meguro to Shinjuku.

Best reason ever!

[Xavier]

The entire article is a great read but this was probably my favorite quote:

No matter what happens in the future with the company of SquareEnix and with the individual Sakaguchi, one thing that's not going to change is that he is the father of Final Fantasy. He made the series. And it was a difficult time when he left Square -- at that time it was still Square. As an individual myself, as someone who creates content, not purely for business purposes or making money or gaining profit from something I create as a content creator, it's really hard to say this, but I really don't think Final Fantasy should have been made after Sakaguchi-san left the company. Square the company owns Final Fantasy the property, so it's really up to them what they decide to do. But me personally, that's what I thought when he left the company.

[Huggo]

The entire article is a great read but this was probably my favorite quote:

No matter what happens in the future with the company of SquareEnix and with the individual Sakaguchi, one thing that's not going to change is that he is the father of Final Fantasy. He made the series. And it was a difficult time when he left Square -- at that time it was still Square. As an individual myself, as someone who creates content, not purely for business purposes or making money or gaining profit from something I create as a content creator, it's really hard to say this, but I really don't think Final Fantasy should have been made after Sakaguchi-san left the company. Square the company owns Final Fantasy the property, so it's really up to them what they decide to do. But me personally, that's what I thought when he left the company.

Yeah, no doubt. Although FF12 was great, SE needs to find out a new name before FF starts to become something stale. For me, FF just isn't very much of a game without Amano, Uematsu, and Sakaguchi.

[Exoduso]

The entire article is a great read but this was probably my favorite quote:

No matter what happens in the future with the company of SquareEnix and with the individual Sakaguchi, one thing that's not going to change is that he is the father of Final Fantasy. He made the series. And it was a difficult time when he left Square -- at that time it was still Square. As an individual myself, as someone who creates content, not purely for business purposes or making money or gaining profit from something I create as a content creator, it's really hard to say this, but I really don't think Final Fantasy should have been made after Sakaguchi-san left the company. Square the company owns Final Fantasy the property, so it's really up to them what they decide to do. But me personally, that's what I thought when he left the company.

Yeah, no doubt. Although FF12 was great, SE needs to find out a new name before FF starts to become something stale. For me, FF just isn't very much of a game without Amano, Uematsu, and Sakaguchi.

Lost Odyssey is more of a Final Fantasy to me than FF12 was... call me crazy.

And I didn't notice it had multiple parts to it, thanks.

[Kaylia]

How the fuck is FF series stale? They have completly different team every times, and none of the game play the same.

[miokomioko]

How the fuck is FF series stales? They have completly different team every times, and none of the game play the same.

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Yeah, no doubt. Although FF12 was great, SE needs to find out a new name before FF starts to become something stale. For me, FF just isn't very much of a game without Amano, Uematsu, and Sakaguchi.

[Huggo]

Lost Odyssey is more of a Final Fantasy to me than FF12 was... call me crazy.

I really can't wait to try that game. As for FF12, I kinda agree with you. It was a good game, but for some reason felt more removed from Final Fantasy. Cid was a bad guy and the traditional names of espers/avatars/summons were used to name the Empire's ships? It was just kinda weird. Not saying that a Final Fantasy game needs to have every little tradition upheld to the letter, though.

[Kaylia]

How the fuck is FF series stales? They have completly different team every times, and none of the game play the same.

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Yeah, no doubt. Although FF12 was great, SE needs to find out a new name before FF starts to become something stale. For me, FF just isn't very much of a game without Amano, Uematsu, and Sakaguchi.

I read his post, you dont need to bold anything. I just dont understand how he is worried about the series becomming stale when there is no indication it will ever be.

[Julian]

inb4myffrants

[Kaelan]

The entire article is a great read but this was probably my favorite quote:

No matter what happens in the future with the company of SquareEnix and with the individual Sakaguchi, one thing that's not going to change is that he is the father of Final Fantasy. He made the series. And it was a difficult time when he left Square -- at that time it was still Square. As an individual myself, as someone who creates content, not purely for business purposes or making money or gaining profit from something I create as a content creator, it's really hard to say this, but I really don't think Final Fantasy should have been made after Sakaguchi-san left the company. Square the company owns Final Fantasy the property, so it's really up to them what they decide to do. But me personally, that's what I thought when he left the company.

I think that the Super Mario song should be the national anthem for Japan. [Hums the death refrain] So when someone wins a gold medal at the Olympics, a Japanese athlete, the flag should go up with the theme song. Shoop!

[Xavier]

The entire article is a great read but this was probably my favorite quote:

No matter what happens in the future with the company of SquareEnix and with the individual Sakaguchi, one thing that's not going to change is that he is the father of Final Fantasy. He made the series. And it was a difficult time when he left Square -- at that time it was still Square. As an individual myself, as someone who creates content, not purely for business purposes or making money or gaining profit from something I create as a content creator, it's really hard to say this, but I really don't think Final Fantasy should have been made after Sakaguchi-san left the company. Square the company owns Final Fantasy the property, so it's really up to them what they decide to do. But me personally, that's what I thought when he left the company.

Yeah, no doubt. Although FF12 was great, SE needs to find out a new name before FF starts to become something stale. For me, FF just isn't very much of a game without Amano, Uematsu, and Sakaguchi.

Couldn't agree with you more. Like I said, the whole article is a great read, but it was the Square part of the article that was really thought provoking.

I got the impression that Uematsu almost wanted to come out and say he felt betrayed by the company, but knew that'd be a stupid thing to say since he still has to maintain good relations with them. I don't know, but I was just fascinated by the sadness his answers took on when it came to discussing Sakaguchi's departure from Square.

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I don't believe the Final Fantasy games are in danger of becoming stale, but I also don't believe they're Final Fantasy games anymore. It'd be like if John Grisham wrote a sequel to the Lord of the Rings, maybe it'd be an excellent book but it sure as hell wouldn't be Lord of the Rings anymore.

[Huggo]

Yeah, you're right. Maybe I shouldn't have said stale, but it definitely could become a shadow of what it once was in the future. Much like your analogy.

[Kaylia]

I don't believe the Final Fantasy games are in danger of becoming stale, but I also don't believe they're Final Fantasy games anymore. It'd be like if John Grisham wrote a sequel to the Lord of the Rings, maybe it'd be an excellent book but it sure as hell wouldn't be Lord of the Rings anymore.

I understand what you mean, but team working on FF changed a lot since psx era every games. For another series like Xenosaga, I would complain, but I dont feel the same attachment toward the original creator for FF series.

[BRP]

Nobuo's point has nothing to do with Final Fantasy series quality dropping, but rather that the concept belongs to Sakaguchi so it should stop when he says so or is no longer involved. This conflict has been around since forever though.

[Lockecole7]

Aww it's Milkman!

[Charla]

If you think about it, FF changed more between 1 and 4 than it did between, say, 8 and 12. And in a way, the reason it won't get stale is because it'll keep changing like that, even though people will complain that it's not FF anymore.