Over 35 years ago Hironobu Sakaguchi and a small team of developers released the first Final Fantasy game, inadvertently starting a legacy spanning multiple entries and spin-offs that’s still going strong today. He may have bowed out to go his own way back in 2003, but he’s still known as the father of the Final Fantasy series. It’s been 20 years since he left Square Enix and had anything to do with the games, which is why it’s been such a surprise and delight to watch him reminisce and go all in on FFXIV.
Originally, he started playing the MMO as a courtesy in preparation for a talk on the series he was doing with Naoki Yoshida in 2021, but quickly found himself utterly hooked. And playing 12 hours a day.
“It pretty much is 50% of my day,” Sakaguchi told us during a panel at the recent FFXIV Fan Festival. “If I’m thinking about the time I spent not sleeping, I was playing 80% of the day. Then if you took away the time I spent eating, I think I’d up it to 100%.”
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