Final Fantasy 25th Anniversary Ciddies - Winner's Ceremony!

Originally Posted by The Man

It's probably going to be Amano or Nomura.

My guess is Amano~

I loved the Sazh and Dajh speech! My favourite so far.

Honestly, though, Ito and Kitase have arguably done more to shape most of the games most people here love than anyone else on that list, so one of them arguably deserves it. But directors aren't nearly as visible as character designers, I guess.

Highwind Award for Most Loved Current Square-Enix Employee

The Nominees
Hiroyuki Ito · Masayoshi Soken · Naoki Yoshida · Tetsuya Nomura · Yoichi Wada · Yoshinori Kitase · Yoshitaka Amano

And the winner is...
Tetsuya Nomura

Damn, I touted Amano. Still, all worthy winners!

Amano actually isn't even employed by SE actually. :x Just looked it up. Just does commissions for them. Fascinating, isn't it~?

EDIT: Possibly wrong on this. :x Should read more than a few sentences next time.

Highwind Award for Most Loved Former Square-Enix Employee

The Nominees
Hironobu Sakaguchi · Masato Kato · Nobuo Uematsu · Ted Woolsey · Tetsuya Takahashi · Yasumi Matsuno · Yasunori Mitsuda

Please give a warm welcome to the presenters of this award...
Josef, Minwu, Ricard & Scott

This is almost certainly going to be Uematsu, and it probably won't even be close.

Josef: Haha! Hiya everyone! Josef here!

Minwu: Along with I, the White Wizard Minwu!

Ricard: And Ricard Highwind the Dragoon!

Scott: Scott, prince of Kashuan at your service!

Minwu: Together, we make up the second history of World II! Destined to defeat the last form of the Emperor!

Josef: Yeah, the horrifyingly dead party.

Scott: We are here to present the Highwind Award for most loved Former Square-Enix Staff!

Ricard: Yeah, our precious creators who decided what horrible ways we'd die.

Minwu: Quiet you, the fate chosen by the gods is a destiny we must accept.

Josef: Gods? They've retired!

Scott: Shush! That is quite enough out of you! And some of them still do things for us every now and then. First up for the award is Hironobu Sakaguchi.

Minwu: Hironobu Sakaguchi is the creator of all creators, he who brought the first Final Fantasy world into place, and brought together all the old Gods.

Josef: So none of us would've died without him being around.

Scott: Fool! We wouldn't have been created without him either.

Minwu: Next is Masato Kato, he set in stone the destiny of worlds like Gaia VII and Chrono Trigger World.

Ricard: I guess he isn't responsible for the creation of any of our misfortunes. I'll introduce the next, the great Nobuo Uematsu!

Minwu: Nobuo is responsible for the music of so many of the worlds! Most of them in fact!

Josef: He made the awesome world map music that always plays when I walk around? I guess I don't have anything wrong with that guy.

Scott: As the god of music I'd hope not! The next nominee is Ted Woolsey! He created languages and allowed them to be spoken between those of different language

Josef: The god of speech?

Ricard: Responsible for our horrible speech impediments?

Minwu: Enough of your disrespects! After that comes Tetsuya Takahashi! He who once designed and coloured our worlds.

Scott: That couldn't have been a very difficult job back in our era? I don't think I was made particularly unique.

Minwu: Scott!

Scott: Oh, sorry Minwu, I don't know what came over me!

Minwu: Lastly was Yasunori Mitsuda!Josef: No no! We forgot Yasumi Matsuno, he oversaw the first told histories of Ivalice!

Audience applauds.

Ricard: The crowd likes him and he's never caused problems in our world!

Minwu: Quiet you! Let us finish now with Yasunori Mitsuda. He created all non-musical sounds in World V!

Josef: I don't have any funny remarks for that.

Crickets chirp.

Ricard: And the winner for Most Loved Former God--

Scott: You mean best of the old folks ho--

Josef: AND THE WINNER IS!

Tetsuya Nomura? Really? Ewwwwwwwww.

Also this better be Uematsu, or else there is no justice in this world.

UESMATSU!

Highwind Award for Most Loved Former Square-Enix Employee

The Nominees
Hironobu Sakaguchi · Masato Kato · Nobuo Uematsu · Ted Woolsey · Tetsuya Takahashi · Yasumi Matsuno · Yasunori Mitsuda

And the winner is...
Nobuo Uematsu

awww jeah, love that man. gonna have to break out some of his finest work in his honour one feels.

EoFF chose correctly when voting Nomura.

Award Chocobo: Some characters seem to have been drinking for the full ten hours I've been doing this now. Wark! Here's hoping we don't get any trouble, as someone doesn't look very pleased in this picture!

Emperor Mateus tries to get friendly with Princess Hilda! Photographer: AanZku

Oh my god. If I was sick I would've drank this whole time. It would've been glorious.

Glad to see Uematsu won. I'm not sure I'd even have gotten into the series if not for its music.

Mitsuda's really great, too, but these are after all the Final Fantasy Ciddies, not the Square Enix Ciddies.

Yes. Uematsu should be given a golden throne.

Best Heroine

The Nominees
Ashe B'nargin Dalmasca - FFXII · General Beatrix - FFIX · Celes Chere - FFVI · Lightning - FFXIII · Rydia - FFIV · Terra Branford - FFVI · Tifa Lockhart - FFVII · Yuna - FFX

Please give a warm welcome to the presenters of this award...
Lenna & Faris

Terra. Terra. Terra. Also, Terra.

If she does not win this there will have been no justice in these Ciddies.