Nah, that's Toriyama.Originally Posted by fredrancour
He will be fired halfway through the development of his next project when upper management discovers that he has replaced every single character in said game with Lightning in a different outfit.
Sakimoto joined Square along with Matsuno, Yoshida, and Minagawa to work on FFT. He left Square after Vagrant Story to form Basiscape. I don't think Iwata was ever a Square employee. Matsuo definitely wasn't.Was Sakimoto ever employed by Sqeenix? I imagine they contracted him (or Basiscape) for the few games he scored for Matsuno.
Also, you forgot Masaharu Iwata, who scored half of TO/OB scores and Hayato Matsuo (few tracks for OB, loads for OB64)
In ios? Doubt it if that's the direction they're heading.Seems fine to me. As projects take longer to develop, there's less time spent on the art side, and more time spent on recreating that art in the game. He probably has a lot of downtime, so its not like he has to be a full time SQEX employee 7 days a week. They can contract him anytime they want, I'm sure.
In the meantime, he can work on other things too. Win, win really. No idea why anyone would be saddened by this. The main thing Yoshida is good at is covers for games, and designing clothing and AF armor. I'm sure he can still do that anytime.
Time for some new artists to get heavy recognition. Yoshida and Nomura had been in the spotlight for several decades.
He is already working on Bravely Second, this doesn't change anything. Most of the current character designers/composers at S-E are working for them as freelance from a decade. For an artist it just doesn't make much sense working for just one company for more than two decades now that the landscape and occasions are wider than in the past.SE done goofed.
Only one that really is getting any major publicity is Kamikokuryo. Naora is amazing too, and we haven't really heard of a project from him since 2011.so many to choose from
Hey, I can dream! :DYoshida and Matsuno joins forces with Nintendo and Monolith Soft and announces two new projects that'll be the flagship titles into the Q4 2014 period: a SRPG for the 3DS (a spiritual successor to Tactics Ogre and Ogre Battle) and a new IP, a action JRPG that beckons the spirit of the fan favorite Vagrant Story for Wii U.
After leaving Level-5 Matsuno has expressed that he seems to prefer being freelance on his own, and working on multiple projects with different developers at the same time.Originally Posted by timetokill
Nintendo should give him a nice cozy space at Monolith.
Hell, expand Monolith into two teams and snap up Matsuno while they're at it.
They probably have tons of good artists we never heard of.FFXIII had some 24 artists working on it IIRC.Only one that really is getting any major publicity is Kamikokuryo. Naora is amazing too, and we haven't really heard of a project from him since 2011.
And they surely have lots of other staff that we know nothing about that are really great artists.
While Squaresoft was a key factor in going Playstation, in general a lot of that 3rd party support Nintendo had during the 8-bit and 16-bit days went Playstation, just Squaresoft was more extreme. Capcom and Konami always dabbled with other platforms, but Nintendo 64 got the same treatment something like Genesis or PC Engine used to get from them. Still, Square Enix sort of went back with the Game Boy Advance and especially DS, and likewise for those two and others like Atlus, so combined with how they've been favoring multiplats outisde of the handheld space it hasn't really mattered as much as it used to.Losing all the talent from Square Enix not only hurts Square Enix but I bet it'll hurt Sony a lot too...
How many of you started gaming on Playstation strictly because of Squaresoft? I'm not afraid to admit I'm one of them.
Edit: I should add that lately, FFXIV is the only exclusive they've managed to have for awhile but that doesnt change possible future and their previous history.
Ah that make... huh? Iwata scored half of FFT as well, why would they hire Sakimoto and not him? I guess Matsuo made more money freelancing for anime score, so him I can understand.Sakimoto joined Square along with Matsuno, Yoshida, and Minagawa to work on FFT. He left Square after Vagrant Story to form Basiscape. I don't think Iwata was ever a Square employee. Matsuo definitely wasn't.
Maybe Iwata just wanted to stay freelance? At least until Sakimoto started up Basiscape anyway, then he was more than happy to join his company. Lol!Ah that make... huh? Iwata scored half of FFT as well, why would they hire Sakimoto and not him? I guess Matsuo made more money freelancing for anime score, so him I can understand.
Thanks for clearing this up though, much appreciated. :)
It was just two months ago actually. They announced one of his new projects with a western mobile studio at TGS.Originally Posted by timetokill
Yeah but that was like, what, a whole year ago? Maybe he changed his mind! ;)
Ito will be next. Leaving Square coffee-less! There will be a candle-lit vigil when the best coffee maker leaves.Going to go weep now. SE is a mess. Who will leave next?
Yea, I don't see that as possible, when his baby (KH) is SE property. But crazier things have happened, I guess?Originally Posted by Glass Rebel
Why would Nomura, of all people, leave Square-Enix?
He might. As he plainly states, he will still be available to work with them anytime he's not previously booked. Uematsu scored another mainline FF game after leaving. Hamauzu did two. Nakano and Hamauzu both just did tracks for a SQEX Christmas album. Nakano and Hamauzu also are both working on FFX HD.I was hoping he would design for another main FF :(
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