I remember when it was Sakaguchi's birthday, I dropped by their FC house in FFXIV hoping to meet him. There was no one at the time but I decided to wait for few minutes thinking he's usually online. When I was just thinking of leaving, Sakaguchi suddenly appeared in front of their FC house (most likely just finished a dungeon run or teleported from somewhere else) so I luckily got the chance to say hi, greeted him a happy birthday and thanked him for giving me wonderful memories since childhood through Final Fantasy. He also gave me a sweatshirt he crafted himself (a limited time freebie he gives away because it's his nameday lol) Still one of my most prized posessions in my armoury chest to this day

Sakaguchi seems like such a fun person to be around casually.

I’m so thankful to have such a vast and comforting franchise to be a part of my life, it has gotten me through some hard times

I'm so glad they took the time to provide an English-subtitled version of this interview. Thank you so much. It feels so good, seeing M. Sakaguchi reunited with his friends again for a cheerful chat about these games we all love.

Couldn't stop smiling throughout the whole video, can't wait for part 2!

It was a delight watching them interact together, really made me smile. I just can't get enough of game development stories from the 80s and 90s. It's just so inspiring and really human.

The best thing about this is knowing that all of the things that sakaguchi says came out of nowhere or because they were bored etc. Are 100% true, and yet have become legendary staples of the franchise.

Glad to see that Square respected the influence that Sakaguchi had on this franchise and invited him, even if he left the company years ago

I absolutely adore how Sakaguchi, Shibuya and Kitase remember and recall this period of their lives in relation to the games development.

I was happily suprised when I got to the Opera House in FF6. Anyone who has been playing these games for 30 years will be.

happy 35th final fantasy anniversary and 60th birthday for sakaguchi san. I love all FF games up to ff12 and my favorite ones are FF5, FF8 and FF11.

This series has changed my life completely and means the world to me. It inspires me like no other. No other game gives me the feeling I get from these games. Long live final fantasy!

The FF series has been my go-to games for decades now. I am LOVING replaying them on Switch (doing 1-6 in order, not that it matters). Thanks for the interview!

Let’s go!!! Can’t wait for more finale fantasy in the future and I hope they remake older games as well.

Sakaguchi' is a legend, even to this day, his latest Apple-Exclusive game Fantasian is a treat to play, loved it so much.

This interview/celebration was so great! So happy these creators came together like this…FOR THE FF FANS!

You guys are the reason I became a games artist, it was the hardest thing I have ever done and FF has been my constant insperation, thank you!!

cant wait for more games ! hope they can remake remake ff8, if possible!

Thank you guys for all these amazing years. I've been a fan of Final Fantasy since I was just a kid at 7 years old. I'm 33 now and just finished playing FF16. Thank you so much!!!

Hahaha Sakaguchi: I was told I’d just be drinking and chatting with Kitase, but oh hey Shibuya is also here too! 😂🤣😂🤣

Thanks for producing this content it’s amazing. Thankful to have Final Fantasy in my life ❤

Im truly blessed to have grown up during the time of ff3-6. It is some of the best story/combat/gameplay memories that has carried through time and even inspired myself to commit to a life of learning to one day also produce an experience for someone else to immerse in and get carried away. The theme songs are incredibly reminiscent

Final Fantasy changed my life thank you everyone at square for changing my life. i wish there were more videos of the the developers chatting discussing how their thought process was for each game and how they ended up becoming legends in the gaming industry thank you for the translation. I wish they could have nomura on a video one of these days we haven't seen him in a while

I just finished the first three games in the Pixel Remaster collection, so I finally had a chance to watch this. Thank you for providing this fascinating look into the history of Final Fantasy! I really enjoyed revisiting FFI and completing FFII and FFIII for the first time. And yes, that final Crystal Tower dungeon in FFIII is LOOOOONG

Awesome Final Fantasy 35th Anniversary Special Interview Part 1 of 2 Video.

Fantastic video. Really looking forward to the second! I love hearing about all of the background for these games. It's even more fascinating to think that they're really only even just touching the surface, too. Nasir sounds awesome.

Sakaguchi-san elaborating on player housing in ff14 gives me life. Can't wait for part 2!

This game series changed my life and I am so thankful to all those involved in the making. Your passion for games is still felt to this day and the joy you still experience is obvious within the interview. ty ty ty

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Final Fantasy 7 was my introduction to deep storytelling and the series is a cornerstone of my entire identity

Thank you for releasing this. Like so many others the games are a big part of our lives and to see the creative minds personalities behind a lot of it is a pleasure.

Whoever that teacher was i would like to thank him for contributing a part of my childhood along with amano and sakaguch, uematsu,and the rest of the development team of Final fantasy.

Kazuko Shibuya has a deceptive amount of importance in this series, especially in the earlier games. There is probably no one more responsible for the way Final Fantasy looks and feels than she does, short of maybe Sakaguchi. I'm glad she was part of this interview.

Such a beautiful thing to see, thank you so much for organizing and sharing this!

I really enjoyed this. Loved to learn about Shibuya's many designs and of course great stories from the Guch and Kitase. Can't wait for part 2!

Next time please add a background, something that's not blindingly white. Awesome event, btw, would love to see more of these interviews with other creators.

Obrigado! Obrigado a todos os responsáveis, a todas as emocionantes histórias, q fizeram e fazem parte da minha vida!

Love this videos! Thanks for all this years making Final Fantasy 💙

How the -FUCK- does this only have 13k views these people are legends in the fantasy and rpg community. They have some of the biggest profiles known to mankind why is this NOT being talked about more this is like if we got a peak into the head of a legendary hero of old.

already watched this before theybtake this video down. great conversation btw 🔥🔥

Sakaguchi is such a chad and friendly guy. I can see myself playing ff14 with him and seeing him go all full gamer mode like a homie

such a awesome interview. good vibes.

Still waiting for part 2. 😢

As someone who had experience working in Ginza, I can relate to his story when the HQ was in Ginza. Even now it’s hard to find a less expensive restaurant for lunch at work

I'm so thankful for FF series and to this day I have ALL FF series I to XVI been a fan since childhood. I do hope for FFXIII Trilogy they make a Remastered for All Consoles. Which Lightning Returns turns 10th This Year

We dodged a bullet with that "Fighting Fantasy" LMAO

I think Square Enix have a good idea of how to proceed with the FF series at this point. When it comes to remaking the old games, just give them the treatment Crisis Core was given where pretty much everything is intact and improvements are made where it makes sense without breaking the bank. For the brand new mainline installments, stick with real-time action combat and AAA quality; FF16 was a big step in the right direction, so hopefully they build on that.

now we know.... thank you for making this. love from Indonesia

I love this series

Love for final fantasy from Palestine 🇵🇸

Sakaguchi said he was drunk for this interview. 😂😂

Thank you! I love this! It would be nice to watch one interview like this when Chrono Trigger gets 35th too, please!

Best Video Game Franchise of all time

Awesome interview. Those guys formed my early childhood! I still remember getting the airship the first time in FF1 on the NES early on a Saturday morning.(I think I was 10 or 11) I didn't get to play much because we only had one TV and the NES was hooked to it, but when that happened, I knew Final Fantasy was special. Of course, when the SNES came out I played the game that sticks we me even today, Final Fanstasy (II US) IV. Really miss those days where no one worried about inserting agendas/forced "wokeness"(hate that word), etc. Solid stories + Epic Music + Interesting gameplay = Success!

That is one very bright room!

Square have got back in Sakaguchi's good books!!! Let's go FF9 Remake lol

BEST rpg franchise OF ALL TIME ❤

Please hire Sakaguchi to be director for Final Fantasy 17 thank you!

Please re=release the Pixel Remaster collection on PS4 physically. Or please make a PS5 physical version. Maybe include Final Fantasy VII, VIII, and IX also in 1 physical PS5 collection? Will we get a Final Fantasy XIII Trilogy remaster? Will you port over the PS4 remasters and games to PS5?

BRUH WHERE IS THE NEXT EPISODE!!!

After Final Fantasy XVI, "The Last Illusion" as a name hits different :`)

-happy 35th anniversary Final Fantasy.

Do you guys still intend to do a part 2 and cover Final Fantasy IV, V, and VI for SNES? That's probably my favorite era of Final Fantasy so far.

I will appreciate if Final Fantasy universes can be developed into: Monopoly games with different world on entire series, Business strategy stimulation, Sports games (like Mario And Sonic in Olympics, all characters get to play sports like tennis, badminton, golf, athletics etc), And finally, virtual tour where all characters become tour guides for each world in the entire series. Movie making where all characters for the entire series act in different genres like comedy, horror, drama, action etc

They should make more copy’s on switch and ps4 🤔

Nice to see Sakaguchi being in such good terms with SE these days

Dissidia Final Fantasy for PS5.

This was awesome

Final Fantasy is very dear and important to me. Although I have not liked the SciFi approach of later iterations. Final Fantasy 4, 5, 6, 14, and 16 are my favorite ones! I hope the series continue to grow and bring joy to million of players worldwide!

Looking forward to watever memories he has to share on part 6, my first Final Fantasy... but I am now intrigued by who actually wrote the Queen Lamia-scene. Was it Sakaguci or NAsir who had a thing for snake-women? The internet demands TRUTH.

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Always loved the graphics off Final Fantasy VI in particular, as well as how the game looked overall. Cool to see that the female artist Kazuko Shibuya created the sprites. That Lv. 60 sprite @5:47 of Sakaguchi would work well as a cameo sprite in any new releases and/or remakes. Make it an extra character related to Cid's research operations or something like that.

Can you come back with your Mistwalker team and collaborate with Square Enix for Final Fantasy XVII? Please Hironobu, we need you.

1987 was a very long time ago... and with the commencement of FF7R and FFXVI, graphics get so good and hyper-realistic it is like being in cutscenes and playing it in that quality, if only in 4k 60fps.

I hope we get the definitive versions 1-6 in a collection pixel is great but the definitive versions with touch ups would be alot better

Give us physical edition of Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster for PS4 worldwide!

Part 1 of 2 be feeling like Disc 1 & 2.

WAIT THEY ANIMATED KAIN LOOKING UP IN THE FFIV LOGO!!

Is it me or Sakaguchi just gave a new version for the origin of the name "Final Fantasy"? Looks like he gives a different one each time! ^^

FF8 remake please ! TT

Final Fantasy 8 remake when?

AWSM

I miss Mobius FF.

So can we get more physical copies 👀?

Bring sakaguchi back..we want Jrpgs too not only action games

Why aren't you printing more physical copies of the PS4 version of the Pixel Remaster bundle?

we want the screen languages arabic games

17:40 the original FF was a sucess. The company moved to a worse office lol

does anyone know what this promo sakaguchi is talking about at 8:17? i’m a big kyoko koizumi fan so i wanna see it

bring back sakaguchi for 17......

Release pixel remaster on xbox plz

What about physical ps5 copies of pixel remaster?

I think they didn't know what they were doing until FF9 and FF10. Those are the entries where you go, these people are geniuses. The question is who pulled the weight on those titles the most. Seemingly: Hideo minaba Shuko murase Toshiyuki itahana Kazushige nojima Daisuke watanabe Motomu toriyama Yoshinori kitase Tetsuya nomura Also FF14 is awful, for the record.

Wait, but where is the God of FF, Yoshi-P?

27:16 so Summon actualy its space filler ? LOL so thats why only a picture of monster with effect of magic LOL

Eso lo dijo hace 30 años no es nada nueva la noticia. Cómo quieren vender humo

This was absolutely delightful. I wish so badly that Uematsu could've been there too!

They let people believe the wrong origin about their game series' name for over a decade? That's a bit unethical...

Final Fantasy is dead. "FF16" is not a real Final Fantasy game.

I was DEEPLY dissapointed with the FF6 Pixel "Remaster" since the company Square hired was lazy & actually made the musical score WORSE (no creepy breathing sounds in the Caves of Narshe etc.) & took out fun accidental features the original SNES game had. I also didn't like the change they did to a lot of the English localisation. Square needs to give FF6 the PROPER respect it deserves instead of milking the over-rated & underwhelming FF7 entry. They still should've remade FF5 & FF6 before jumping to 7. You do NOT show proper respect for your franchise by skipping over 2 titles to greedily milk a more "popular" one that only gained its statues from the ignorance its fanbase who STARTED with 7 & never knew the 6 games before it. Do not delete this comment KZfaq/Siliconeria...I am being civil & speaking the truth. It is NOT uncivil to disagree with people, so stop deleting this comment just because YOU don't like the truth I am lawing bare regarding FF7's overrated status.