Final Fantasy Composer Says Square-Enix ‘Collapsed’ After Merger

Final Fantasy Composer Says Square-Enix 'Collapsed' After 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.”

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“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.”
So it was organisationally flat? They were just kinda doing what they wanted and it all worked out? Wild.
- it's more "lacking organization" than "flat organization". I've worked in both environments - the former is chaos and little, informal fiefdoms. the latter lets you get things done without a ton of oversight.
It was a bonehead move to do an experimental movie with a super hot ip at the time. Advent Children should have came out in 1998 then years later Spirits Within.
- Live reaction of general US and European moviegoing audiences in 1998 trying to comprehend the nonsense that is Advent Children
  
  Wouldn't have done much better than Spirits Within probably. Both movies are boring, unwatchable garbage
  
  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.
  
  To be fair the combat scenes in Advent Children (or at least a few of them) were really awesome, but yeah very odd story.
- 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.
I despise square but only because they used to make such phenomenal games and now they're kind of a mess. They really should look to Capcom or Atlus for possible inspiration because I sure as hell don't know how to fix their games. Like ff16 was terrible.
- I actually liked 16 but it shouldn't have been a mainline title. I've hated pretty much every non online FF since X, though.
  
  Yeah it definitely didn't feel like final fantasy at all. I really wanted to like the game but something felt missing. Pwrtly it was the story. The collective negativity will destroy the world plot is way overused in jrpgs. And it isn't limited to square. Atlus and bandai namco jrpgs also keep reusing this. It's weird. The gameplay also had zero party play (something they fixed with ff7 remakes but those games might flop when it comes to story) which you cannot have in a final fantasy game.
So that's why I dropped off of Final Fantasy after X-2 lol

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