Creator of 'Final Fantasy' finishes 'Final Fantasy 14' in a month's time
Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of Final Fantasy, is all caught up on Final Fantasy 14’s storyline — and it only took him a month to do so, PCGamesN reported Monday. Give or take a couple of days!
Sakaguchi was the director of the first Final Fantasy that came out way back in 1987. He directed the following four mainline entries in the series and was a supervisor on many others before leaving Square Enix in the early 2000s. Recently, he began playing Final Fantasy 14, the MMORPG that takes several hundred hours to get through. Yes, hundreds of hours. Sakaguchi’s journey through Final Fantasy 14 started Sept. 27 and he had already finished several expansions worth of storylines by Oct. 31.
The famed director has chronicled everything on Twitter, and it’s been a treat for fans, especially when Sakaguchi notes all the references in Final Fantasy 14 to the games he made.
“Goblin-kun,” Sakaguchi said on Twitter. “Somehow, this reunion makes me cry.”
Sakaguchi is referring to Goblins being one of the first enemies in Final Fantasy that he and the development team came up with, which you can check below.
と思ったら、最大級になつかしいやつがっ！
ゴブリンくん。
なんだか、この再会は泣けてくるよ。#FF14 #FFXIV pic.twitter.com/jG5yynlkQz— 坂口博信 (@auuo) October 24, 2021
なつかしさ満載のクリスタルタワー。
なかでもこいつ（アモン？）が何故か一番ささった。天野さんのイラストを強烈に覚えているせいかな。
「おまえまで、ここに！？」っていう感じｗ#FF14 #FFXIV pic.twitter.com/2yH903IXtu— 坂口博信 (@auuo) October 11, 2021
Long-time Final Fantasy fans have taken plenty of opportunities to get a selfie with Sakaguchi’s in-game avatar. The tiny Lalafell look sure suits him!
あれれ・・・集まってしまった。
そりゃそうかｗ
なんか胸に槍がｗ
in #FF14 #FFXIV pic.twitter.com/zVgOyKsllp— 坂口博信 (@auuo) October 8, 2021
It’s safe to say Sakaguchi is a Final Fantasy 14 fan now. You’d have to be nuts to rush through the game otherwise! With the Endwalker expansion coming out later this month, you have to wonder if Sakaguchi will be beating down the server doors just like every other fan. Maybe Final Fantasy 14 game director Naoki Yoshida is taking note of Sakaguchi’s journey too, eager to see what his predecessor thinks.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.