What went so right?

Nothing it's shit

I worked in the gaming press in Japan for a little while and I got to speak with some seniors when we went out drinking. We were talking about Final Fantasy and when the topic of FFXII came up, they explained to me how the reveal event of the game was the last thing Sakaguchi attended before fucking off and he spent the entire conference praising Matsuno, talking about how Vagrant Story was one of the best games he had played to the point that the big meme at the time was that he he was a homo.
It turns out FFXII was the last project he had personally approved and he specifically wanted Matsuno to be the director. Kitase was basically the corporate tool so Sakaguchi HAD to hand the keys to the franchise to him, but he had handed the next big FF project to Matsuno himself and he even became producer of the game despite the entire series being produced by Kitase from here on out, which was a direct act of defiance.
This greatly displeased the new management when the merger happened because they wanted to get rid of every auteur with any kind of creative control in order to turn it into a supercharged money machine, and Matsuno is a huge perfectionist who wants to have control of EVERY facet of game dev (just check FFT, dude literally thought up the damage formula of every class by crunching the numbers himself).
So basically Matsuno spent several years just arguing with management who wanted him to become their tool, and in the last year of development he said fuck it and left. He handed the rest to Minagawa and Ito which were the two remaining devs from the old guard and decided he'd rather leave and take the blame for himself rather than the entire team getting reprimanded for not obeying the suits.
Funnily enough, the FFXII team were the people brought in to put out the fire that was FFXIV and saved the entire brand in the process. Just goes to show Yoichi Wada was a massive cunt

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Literally nothing, it’s the worst FF game, even worse than XIII
Tactics team is fucking garbage
>hurr muh political intrigue! So intellectual! *tips fedora*
Vagrant Story, FFT, TO:LUCT and FFXII are absolute cancer and any fan of these games should be killed on sight for being such pretentious faggots

I think it was more than that. I think it really was a slow burn. FF8 and 9 were also mixed reception at the time. Both for different reasons, but I find it interesting.

Even 13 I increasingly see increased appreciation of. It's an odd phenomenon.

I googled some stuff to know if I got my story in order and turns out even Sakaguchi referenced the event

>--”Sakaguchi-san, you took part in an official Final Fantasy event for the first time in a long while.”
>Sakaguchi: That's true. The last event I participated in was the reveal for FFXII. I mentioned my love for Matsuno (Yasumi Matsuno, creator of numerous popular games including the Ogre Battle series. Supervised the production of FFXII) at the event, and there were all sorts of rumors flying around afterwards. (laughs)
famitsu.com/matome/ff15/2016_05_13_eng.html

>I hate good writing!!
Spoken like a true FF fan

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is this true?

Also what is supposed to mean "being a corporate tool"?

Ah, Matsuno, the talentless hack who gave us such memorable main villains such as Vormav.
Vormav, what a guy. Such a great and charismatic villain. Clearly a fan favorite on par with Kefka, Sephiroth or Kuja.
Vormav is the main antagonist of FFT for 99% of the game until Altima is summoned, yet Matsuno cocksuckers pretend Delita was the antagonist just so their game can seem less pathetic than it actually is.

It's already known management wanted Matsuno out. The only one who got preferential treatment was Nomura because he was involved with FFVII and it was the ultimate cash cow at the time.
Now they like having personalities when it brings them money like Yoko Taro

Guys I'm playing Zodiac Age and my team is

Vaan: Knight/Shikari
Balthier: Foebreaker/Shikari
Fran: Time Mage/Archer
Basch: Knight/Foebreaker
Ashe: Black Mage/Red Mage
Penelo: White Mage/Machinist.

Would this team help me to clear the maing campaing?

Also what should I pioritize on thje License Boards?

Are accesories good enought to spend LP?

Nomura doesn’t get preferential treatment, didn’t they completely butcher his vision for FFXV?

Nomura has been working on Versus XIII for years and even wanted to turn it into a musical at some point, just to show how he had unlimited power. It was only when the financial results of Square Enix ended up being worse than Squaresoft BEFORE the merger that they decided they needed to shake the nest with a new CEO

Nothing. This game and XIII are garbage.

The best Final Fantasy, only equaled by Tactics.

It means you suck it up to the people working in management. The executives. You're a lapdog for the people in charge

xii, tactics, LUCT and vagrant story are literally the best japanese rpgs. matsuno games rule

FPBP

>hurr muh political intrigue! So intellectual! *tips fedora*
>Vagrant Story, FFT, TO:LUCT and FFXII are absolute cancer and any fan of these games should be killed on sight for being such pretentious faggots
better then your cringe fest anime stories

Balthier

Playing Vagrant Story for the first time was a fascinating experience

Not a whole lot it was an unfinished mess why is everyone praising it all of the sudden along with X?