Yoshinori Kitase

if he'll give us a, a quote," and sure enough, he did.

And I was like, "Well, let me reach out to Yoshinori Kitase," the director of pretty much every Final Fantasy from, like, IV to, like, XII or something like that, something crazy like that, and he got back to me.

And it's just like, wow, like th- that, that was such a, an eye-opening thing that, like, people are so kind as to like, you know, give us the level of props that they were and even, like, you know, wanting to respond, 'cause they could've easily just looked at that and been like, "Ah, I don't need to respond to that email."

Totally.

A bunch of 30-year-olds.

Like, Yoshinori Kitase, he was like 30 or something when he made it.

Um, and it was just, you could feel, you could feel the energy and you could feel the enjoyment that the devs had when they were making it.

It's so characterful, despite the fact that they're these tiny little, you know, graphically very limited sprites, but they're so expressive-

Let's get Nojima to write this.

Uh, Kitase is gonna produce it.

This is gonna be, like, a real Final Fantasy game on your phone," but they do list it at-

Nojima wrote Mobius? [laughs]

Directed this game, created Dragon Ball, did all the art for the Dragon Quest.

Motomu Toriyama worked with Kitase and...

And this guy, Watanabe, was one of the writers, and he gave Watanabe a structure for his notes.

He's like and this is his notes for this chapter was snow and hope reconcile.

Believing in his words, I've taken on various genres and I've been able to do so because the philosophy has carried on over time.

Yoshida had said something similar and not only did Sakaguchi encourage that, but also Kitase, who's the brand manager of Final Fantasy.

And both had said to Yoshida, FF is whatever the director making the latest installment thinks is the best game, the best story at the time.

If they create a game with those points in mind, then it's a Final Fantasy.

Hamaguchi.

Yeah, Kitase's a producer.

Hamaguchi is the director.

Yeah, okay.