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Before it was Square Enix, Square “collapsed” when Final Fantasy boss Hironobu Sakaguchi left the company, says composer Nobuo Uematsu: “The situation at Square was awful after he quit”new features
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“Maybe Sakaguchi isn’t aware of this, but the situation at Square was awful after he quit”
Before it was Square Enix, Square “collapsed” when Final Fantasy boss Hironobu Sakaguchi left the company, says composer Nobuo Uematsu: “The situation at Square was awful after he quit” new features
Square was legendarily troubled in the years immediately leading up to its 2003 merger with Enix, and a big part of those troubles came down to the financial failure of Hironobu Sakaguchi’s CG epic, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. Sakaguchi resigned from the company before the merger went down, and according to fellow Final Fantasy legend Nobuo Uematsu, Square just wasn’t the same without him.
“Square collapsed after Sakaguchi left,” Uematsu said on a recent episode of his Together with NOBIYO podcast, as translated by Automaton. Sakaguchi was a guest on that episode, and the two reminisced on their time together at the company. “To put it simply – he is the big boss. Always has been and always will be,” Uematsu explained.
Sakaguchi and Uematsu both worked at Square going back to the ’80s, and would famously collaborate on 1987’s Final Fantasy. “We didn’t even have a proper corporate organization, yet everybody listened to him. It’s a kind of quality you just have to be born with,” Uematsu said of Sakaguchi.