The Curious Case of Hiroyuki Ito
In this episode we look at Hiroyuki Ito, a key character in the history of Final Fantasy and the longest serving veteran of Squaresoft era Final Fantasy still working at Square Enix today.
Here we explore Hiroyuki Ito's career progression from his debugging work on Final Fantasy 1 and Final Fantasy 2, to his invention of the ATB battle system in FF4, and his innovation in system design and planning for each successive final fantasy up to Final Fantasy 12.
Even though many might criticise his work inventing the Junction System for Final Fantasy 8, here we look at Hiroyuki Ito's career alongside luminaries like Hironobu Sakaguchi and Yoshinori Kitase, and how his battle systems always reflected the worlds and settings the final fantasy stories operated in.
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In this episode we'll cover the following topics:
FF8 gameplay
FF8 story
FF8 junctioning
FF8 lore
FF4 ATB system
ATB battle System
FF12 ADB battle system
FFT - Final Fantasy Tactics battle system
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