Pretty much. I agree with everything he said, and it's funny that anyone would think he's mostly talking about Nomura when the majority of things he talks about being absolute trout weren't even Nomura's fault. The only thing he really did in FFXIII for example were the character designs. And the irony there is that his character designs weren't even the worst designs in the game. The enemies and a lot of the NPC's were ten times worse than Nomura's contributions. But he does work as a metaphor (especially the Batman concept) because he has no concept of what makes good art anymore and just keeps adding lines and belts and zippers and dangly bits until he's made his designs sufficiently unidentifiable.Originally Posted by NeoCracker
It's called a metaphor DMKA. The Nomura design was uses as a metaphor to talk about the company's problems as a whole.Ninety percent of his bitching is about Nomura specifically, not SE as a company. I wonder if he even realizes that. I'm also amazed that of all the things in Final Fantasy XIII to bitch about, he chose the character designs and the story; the least of that game's problems.
He's absolutely right about how they miss the point with overcompensating by dumping money into new graphics engines and tech demos then complaining that a game that sold 3 million copies in a month didn't sell enough.
He designs like a 13 year old trying to make something look badass, and the rest of Square Enix is no better these days.
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