DEEP DIVING Tetsuya Nomura Interview! Creative Process for FF7 and the END of Kingdom Hearts?!

[@KenjiShiratsuki]

Personally, I like how convoluted the KH lore is and I don't feel like everyone needs to understand all of it to appreciate the games. It depends on how okay you are with "Who's that" "someone you wouldn't know from the Deep Lore" "Oh alright, maybe you can catch me up sometime" or "I don't know who that is but I'm glad we saved them, neat". If you're the kind of person who NEEDS those questions answered, maybe don't play this game specifically unless you just ignore the story. I feel like Nomura's team, and I say this because he credits others with helping write at multiple points here, are writing deep connections in KH lore like the fan theory about The Guardian and Terra being confirmed, Xion just, EXISTING again, and everything about Scala ad Caelum for the megafans. Those things, however, aren't central to the plot even in KH3. Xehanort wants a superweapon to use a universal reset button to eliminate evil forever. "Cool, but not at the cost of everyone who exists today", says the plucky protagonist. That's something even children can understand. All this other complicated stuff is there for the rest of us.

[@saint_jakob7399]

Seriously, as a kid I idolized Nomura and thought of him as the celebrity living my dream. He designed characters and wrote backgrounds and later grew into, as you beautifully said, a prolific artist with a massively successful career. Although I find a lot of his later works to be convoluted, his work in the 90s is basically what my imaginary world is built upon. I love his works over all. I love the scattered bread crumbs at the end of the games that insight theories and strife among fans. I really love it when people agree the game was a wonderful experience but have drastically different perceptions on the "what" and "why" of a story. Its masterful. Gushing aside I think myself and others like me have just gained the taste for it. Its a popular "trait" in a good amount of animes out there too, to be dark and difficult. Look at Evangelion for example, and how all over the place the story becomes as it unfolds. In the end, the point is - the experience - and the headache at the conclusion provides us with a reason to go back, watch play and listen again, and we the consumers dive head first into interpretation and thrive on others adding to the experience. Gosh that got out of hand. Thanks for another chance to return to final fantasy Joe.

[@SquigglyTheAsianPotato]

Oh got here right as the video was uploaded

[@Malacite]

OK, so this basically confirms that the man is totally out of his goddamn mind at this point and also explains a hell of a lot about Rebirth - particularly the absolute cluster fuck of an ending. I dunno, I mean on the one hand I deeply love some of his works but part of me is kinda glad he's hanging it up soon.

[@dabears9764]

Thanks Jho :)

[@AxeMain]

Miss you buddy

[@ARadicalDream]

He is a good character designer, but destroyed KH and FF.

[@Kyleesie]

Hot take: I hope he retires from doing creative direction and writing. His sense of narrative and visual storytelling is nonsensical, chaotic, and awkward. He’s not a great storyteller overall, and his creative involvement in recent FF entries are the main contributor to my disillusionment of passion and joy for FF. His character designs are great - tho even in that realm, his earlier work (like in the original FF7 and FF8) are much better than his more modern unrealistic fashion design choices. He either needs to retire or go back to basics and simplify his fundamentals in both visual design and narrative.

[@saint_jakob7399]

I don't think it's a hot take. I think there are just factions in the fandom. I agree with his later work being chaotic, and his influence in story-telling heavily sways people away. People have used to term "Normua'd" to refer to what happened to the KH and now the FF7R stories. Personally though, there's satisfaction for me, in there being a lot left to the imagination at the conclusion of a story. But that's just me - the other side of the rift between FF fans out there. I still buy and play all of these titles - cause they're great!

[@TalesZuliani]

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