SAKAGUCHI THE LEGEND

I owe these people my childhood, they basically shaped me into the adult i'm today - thank you so much for everything ❤

Thanks a lot for uploading this with subtitles. These 'laidback' chats between people involved in the games its so enjoyable to watch. Would love to have more of them.

FFV's main theme is just amazing. It's uplifting yet you can feel the melancholy in it, which our heroes goes through.

10:42 "Ken Narita (Game programmer) Involved in the FINAL FANTASY series from the early days. Worked as the series main programmer for a long time after FFIV. Nickname: Nariken."

Sakaguchi-papa being drunk at at the end yet being so dorky is such a mood. Thank you, you three, for making such impactful games. 影響深いゲームを作ってくれた3人に誠にありがたいです

😂 OMG awesome listening to them tell about their development. Absolutely awesome. FFVI was the first game i owned along with FF Adventure. Absolutely loved those two games. FFII is also a favorite. My first Final Fantasy I ever played, and what made me fall in love with Goodness and Light was FFIV. Absolutely absorbed me into the fold at that point. Cecil was the epitome of my life. Then FF7 just solidified me. Then you have Xenogears. Man, Sakaguchi, thank you and everyone at Squaresoft for everything. You are what made my life worth living.

What an amazing interview! Such a privilege being able to hear all this... Although that mention of Yoshi P and his rings took me out. lmfao And Sakaguchi's joking slander about Nomura at 25:00 & Kitase at 29:26. I'm in tears. LOL I agree about FFVI's 'Searching for Friends' playing for Blackjack in XIV. I want to hear Soken's version of that track!

The creator of a famous series praising new entries made after his exit from the franchise is totally unprecedented. Sakaguchi is a class act on top of being a true legend.

Hironobu Sakaguchi is a really fun and charismatic person!!!

Sakaguchi is so much fun! He would be such a great friend to have.

sakaguchi really just said go add beastmaster to XIV Yoshi P 🤣 what a menace

These interviews were so fun and interesting. The host was really well informed and had great questions. Thanks so much to whoever did the subtitles!

Just played through all the pixel remasters back to back and man what an amazing time. Seeing this video afterwards with everyone in such a wholesome and chill mood was great. Would love to see more talks like this for the games beyond 6 with all these legendary people just talking about their time creating these masterpieces. Could listen to it all day lmao

This interview is so delightful. I've been smiling the entire time, listening to all the funny and behind the scenes stories about the development and the people behind it. The answers all felt so natural and not textbook, feels like I'm walking down the memory lane with the dev team together

It would be amazing to se Sakaguchi return to FF or making another RPG game.

Can we please get an interview like this for the PS1 classics? :D Sakaguchi-san and Kitase-san have such amazing stories!!

Arigato mina-san, thank you for all the memories, all our friends across the Rift, All the lessons. THANK YOU!!!!

This show is great! Thanks SE for producing it! 🎉❤

I loved this video so much. THANK YOU so much for giving us the three unfiltered. It was so refreshing to not get the usual "corporate" interview.

These are so fun to watch, wish they were even longer!

Loved the interview, they seem fun to talk with. Thanks for this!

Wow they all look great! for a 35 year anniversary I expected them to look much older.

These were a delight, thanks for releasing them! ✨✨😆

I love this. FF is one of my favorite series next to Zelda. It's so fun to hear about these experiences and why the games are they way they are. I hope they do a FF 7-9 to complete Sakaguchi time there

Loved this special, thank you so much for organizing this and having us take a peak behind the curtain at the creative team behind such an iconic game series

Mr. Kitase: "I would just like to push FFVI again!". Square Enix, you heard the man. Remake, let it happen :)!

I was waiting for this part with the subtitles, which btw thank you very much for them. I love things like this, their stories, thoughts, memories; everything is really cool and this series and games I love them a lot. Thank you!

Such a fun panel. Good to see Sagakuchi in good terms with SE.

I really loved these interviews, and Mr Sakaguchi is an incredible person indeed 👏

Sakaguchi doing a Tetsuya Nomura impression is something I never know I needed

This was so awesome, I love these people

It was awesome seeing Sakaguchi back at Square Enix, even if it was just for a sit down talk about the series considering just how unamicable his exit was two decades ago. Together with some old cohorts and a fantastic host to keep it rolling, it was a nice look back on the franchise's early years. The only way it could have been greater is if they invited Hiroyuki Ito, Hiromichi Tanaka and Nobuo Uematsu too.

These interviews were a very special gift ty SE

This is the kind of interview we needed

Damn right in the feels. Thank you so much for this.

What a wonderful interview. Thank you for doing this!

Thank you so much for the greatest game series ever made!

It’s finally here 🙏

Well that was heartwarming. I really enjoyed these and let's hope that FF6 Remake happens.

Thank y'all so much for uploading these with subtitles!

This was fun to watch. It's nice to see Sakaguchi involved with Squeenix again. He's the heart of the franchise imo. Once he left it wasn't the same anymore.

Definitely teared up a few times listening to the music from these incredible titles, and seeing the enhanced visuals available through the Pixel Remaster version. Final Fantasy will always remain as my favorite series of all time, and this dive into the history of their making was so beautiful. Long live FF.

At the end when Sakagushi talks, he actually speaks about being into XIV 14, but it says XVI 16 in the subs....

so fun! thank you guys and se for these memories

Let us know of your next works! FF or not, SE or not, I'll play them for sure! 次回の作品も教えてください！ FFであろうがSEであろうが、必ずプレイします！ (翻訳) 😄

FFVI Remake. Look foward to it.

Absolutely legend 👏

This should be part 2 of 10

Sakaguchi is a legend, he deserves all those 20 glasses of champagne XD

These ppl have had such a big impact on my life I love them all very much All their stories of using old computers...yeah I can relate to the sim city stories lol

Enjoyed this interview and was pleased to hear that they want to remake FFVI. Please remake FFVI!

Wonderful interview! Quite a few typos near the end here what with with calling XIV XVI which misconstrued the context, and the subtitles not moving up during some staff member descriptions so they're a bit obscured. But otherwise what a wonderful interview! I'm so glad everyone had a good time!

32:15 There is a need of correction. It's probably XIV instead of XVI that was talked about. Rubicante does not exist in Final Fantasy 16.

im truly touched by this *tears*

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

Me encanta ver como le pega al alpiste el Sakaguchi

When that Prolgue theme appeared I said this was the sound of greatness and it came from a flipping 16bit console that sounded a like a huge musical score. Alas FF IV and onward the series became a JRPG to a Legendary IP in its own right.

Yes legends in their own kind. Could we get more vids like this, pretty please square? Semi-short docu-series events featuring the rest of final fantasy for the 40th (Playstation), 45th (PS2 & PC, FF XVII), and 50th (XIII thru Current) anniversaries, with compillation releases leading up to a 4-part all in one release for the 50th or 60th anniversary. Anyway, more discussions like this, please!!!

Sakaguchi's talking about XIV at the end but the subtitles mistake it for XVI.

Thank you ❤

Sakaguchi is a treasure.

Absolutely loved this

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

Final Fantasy VI was a 16bit MASTERPIECE ❤❤❤ It was if someone painted the Mona Lisa with crayons 🖍️🤯

There is a typo in the subtitles at the end. They keep showing FFXVI but they're talking about FFXIV there

Sakaguchi and Uematsu back in FF would be so awesome!

Too bad they can't make game like these anymore....

Im really love FFIV its my childhood FF Games , i was playing it at the remaster version on Playstation 1, and theres leak that an FFVII prototype using FFVI for 3D game modeling. Please SquareEnix , release them as new Remake game afte FVII remake project

Man, it would be great to have these legends have a similar round talking about FF7 (and beyond). Maybe for when Rebirth comes out?

Saka Guch! The GOAT

The Pixel Remasters are Awesome Games. Recommended to go out and grab it a.s.a.p.

FFVI remake, pretty please 🥺 I would love to play FF6 remake, the entire game in one part

파이날판타지6 꼭 리메이크 해주세요 인생작입니다 !!

Can't wait FF6 remake!

It pains sakaguchi he’s not there anymore

Man, I miss the old times when the games was about pure passion and enthusiasm (even when devs worked tirelessly without many tools, when many design standards wasn't exist and there was many limitations, especially with gaming hardware), not the business like most of them today... "Effective managers" ruin everything.

FF6 Remake confirmed then?

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

Yoshi P got mention a lot 🤣🤣

I want a FFV PROPER remake so badly... not another pixel or chibi 3d like FF3-4 remakes... something like FF12 or DQ11 or FF14 graphics is good enough. FF5 is my favorite in the franchise.

Early games had this anime art style but then fire emblem happened by ff8 it went for a more semi realistic art style and by x had now had a realistic art style before xenosaga had somewhat of a similar art style to ff7 and ff8

ATB is still the best battle system ever for controlling more than one character.

The soundtrack is final fantasy 12?

They said XIV but the subtitle became XVI. There's no Rubicante in FFXVI lol

Man, I love the work, but Sakaguchi feels a bit toxic towards the team. Glad that Kitase was able to put in his effort and touch whenever possible. Deeply appreciated.

Where's part 1

I would absolutely love to have a beer with Sakaguchi-San and shoot the shit with him

So.. when is FF6 remake!??

please make a new game together !!!!

❤💙💚🧡💜💛

Final Fantasy, after X, really broke hard from the distinctive elements that had defined the series from its inception. Modern FF games are fairly hard to distinguish from Western RPGs like the Elder Scrolls or pretty much anything Bioware produces aside from some almost comedically exaggerated tropes transplanted from the earlier FF games. Earlier FF games, even ones that were more like the modern ones, specifically FF7 and FF8, still leaned heavily into painted-cel anime visuals, kept combat at a more strategic turn-based pace (obviously meaning no 3D action-RPG button mashing), kept the stories, conflicts, and struggles of the characters tied more to their own internal personal and interpersonal issues rather than go all Game of Thrones on us and make everything about ridiculously complex medieval kingdom political intrigue. Most crucially, there was a lightheartedness, much more levity, and a willingness not to take the plots of the games too seriously at all times in the earlier games. Zidane from FFIX strongly embodied that theme and mood for the earlier games, especially after Cloud and Squall both set the mode for melancholic neurotic character leads post-FFX.

No one to speak about my man Kitase ?

Make FF dissida NT for xbox or Remaster the OG dissida from psp to consoles plzz

FFX remake

at that time the games were full of a great gameplay and a nice challenge...today we have an antigame called Final Fantasy 16

we want the screen languages arabic games

Release Final Fantasy 16 and 7 Remake for XBox please

There's some really good stuff here for fans of the old games. Thanks for this.