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The ups and downs of the father of Final Fantasy

The ups and downs of the father of Final Fantasy. Hironobu Sakaguchi reborn in Terra Battle.

Final Fantasy is one of the most famous game series in the world. Especially as Final Fantasy 7 became widely accepted in the western market. But it wasn’t easy to become a Final Fantasy. It was the result of many failures of developer Hironobu Sakaguchi.

Creating a new game each time is not an easy task. It saw a journey into a previously unknown land. And you must be an adventurer who travels through the bright lights without fear of failure.

Final Fantasy starts selling from 0.52…0.76…1.40 million and until season 7 sold 11 million copies and became a favorite of gamers around the world, but before Final Fantasy became famous, Developers have failed many times.

Hironobu Sakaguchi is known as the father of Final Fantasy, but he is also one of the symbols of failure.

He started at Squaresoft (now Square Enix’s original name) as a temporary worker as a student. His first game was called The Death Trap, which only sold 3,000 copies, and this was his first failure.

But he didn’t give up and continued to make a sequel, Will: The Death Trap II, which sells a bit better, but Square still believes in him. that are not just hired as permanent employees but is the leader of the development team ever.

But it’s only temporary. Because the games he developed like King’s Knight and Highway Star disappeared into the air. until he himself thought “I probably wasn’t born to be a game developer” and was thinking about quitting games. But he gained faith from the experience of Dragon Quest, which had the best story and graphics of the era. and he thought “This is it!”

So he tried to make the game as close to Dragon Quest as possible, hoping to be second only to Dragon Quest, not even hoping to win. And that’s where the Final Fantasy series was born. It was like his last battle in the series title.

At first, many people thought it was a copy of Dragon Quest, so no one really cared. But after a while, the game became famous in the second-hand game market. Many people tell about the fun of the game. And eventually selling up to 520,000 copies, and it has become a popular series in Japan.

Until the 7th season, which has sold more than 11 million copies worldwide and has been accepted by players around the world. Which looks like Mr. Hironobu Sakaguchi’s life should be smooth. But then he turned to a suicide-like Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within movie. Because he invested $147 million but only got back $43 million, he took responsibility and resigned from Square Enix, which many people think. That would have been the end of his gaming career.

After a year and a half, he returned as CEO of new game publisher Mistwalker and began developing games like Blue Dragon with Dragonball artist Toriyama Akira, and Lost Odyssey by Takehiko I. Noue, the illustrator of Slam Dunk, joined forces by making it on Xbox 360 ….but both games crashed.

But he still hasn’t given up. He turned to the development of a mobile game called Terra Battle and his success came back. Terra Battle currently has more than 2.4 million downloads and sits at the 13th highest grossing day on the App Store in Japan during 2016, followed by Terra Battle 2 and Terra War.

And in 2021, Hironobu Sakaguchi will also have a new work Fantasian available on Apple Arcade that takes us on a journey to the mechanical world. Created with 3D graphics that combine the art of Diorama models in the real world. It is also a collaboration with Mr. Nobuo Uematsu.

If you look at your life, Hironobu Sakaguchi will be another good example in life. Even if you fall As long as you fight We won’t be losers forever.