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Interview with Hironobu Sakaguchi (Shūkan Famitsu, 5 June 1998)

Hironobu, Sakaguchi, and Coxon, Sachi. 1998. “Interview with Hironobu Sakaguchi (Shūkan Famitsu, 5 June 1998).” Shūkan Famitsu, 5 June 1998; English translation hosted at playstationjapan.tripod.com. ASCII Corporation.

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Sakaguchi, Famitsu 1998
Original
http://playstationjapan.tripod.com/Sakaguchi.html
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https://web.archive.org/web/20110717103402id_/http://playstationjapan.tripod.com/Sakaguchi.html
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2026-10-22
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© ASCII Corporation; fan translation by Sachi Coxon
Credit
Interview with Hironobu Sakaguchi in Shūkan Famitsu, 5 June 1998; English translation by Sachi Coxon, hosted on playstationjapan.tripod.com.
Notes
Sakaguchi describes his roles from FFI to FFIV: main planner at the start, then director as the team grew, and responsible for story and events through FFVI. The page is an English translation, not the Japanese original; quote the translation and credit Coxon.

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Sakaguchi said that he began as the series' main planner and, as the team grew and needed a director, took that role too.answer to the first questionInterview
Hironobu Sakaguchi said he was responsible for the story and events of the series up to Final Fantasy VI. Of Final Fantasy IV he said the team wanted a weightier story, beginning with a dark knight, and that Tokita did the staging, which involved writing the script.answer on his roles from FFI to FFIVInterview