Krev said:
That might have been Matsuno's approach after Vaan was forced into the game. However, his replacing the earlier version of Basch who was originally to be the lead was mandated by higher ups, and Matsuno had fought the decision. While we may never know the real story, it seems like meddling along these lines was what lead to his 'breakdown'.
EDIT: Also, I strongly doubt the story was so 'Star Wars' when Matsuno was on board.
I wonder if Yoshida will work on Matsuno's game with Level-5.
This is bullshit though.
Matsuno created Vaan even before the removal of Basche as the Main character. As it stands with what has happened before hand Vaan was going to be someone who looked up to Basche, almost a Rex esk character but one that lasted the entire game.
This nonsense about Vaan's creation being because of Higher ups is completely unfounded and based completely out of people wanting some way to defend Matsuno as if he was wronged.
Not to mention Vaan was in the Main character role from the the very first time the game was shown, so the switch happened quite early, so much so that we never saw Basche as the main character until it came up after the games release and even the fact that the one piece of Art we got from Amano had Vaan in the lead role.
The fact that Matsuno wanted Basche as the main character we know but the rest is unfounde speculation, plus we have someone who would have had to broke down nearly 2 years after he placed Vaan into the role if we factor in when we first saw Vaan and when Matsuno left the project.
Quite unlikely. Now him breaking down because of the pressure SE was putting on him? Very likely, but it having to do with Vaan at that point just doesn't seem at all reasonable.