NintendObserver’s select content on Shinji Hashimoto.
Shinji Hashimoto: "In Japan, we created VII in-house, but in the North American and European regions, we had... you could say a tie-up with Sony and got a lot of help from them." (In case you're still wondering why the Final Fantasy franchise went from Nintendo to PlayStation.)
When the biggest videogame betrayal of all times comes back to the audience it once betrayed.
"The [Chocobo job] that was the most difficult to design was the Black Mage."
They actually developed the game in Hawai'i, and came back with such tans that management didn't allocate them more developers to help. 😃