Final Fantasy director reveals why he makes all his characters so attractive

Square Enix’s Tetsuya Nomura has outlined his doctrine erstwhile it comes to designing characters, including wherefore helium ever makes charismatic protagonists.

Along with its role-playing mechanics and bombastic stories, the satellite of Final Fantasy is arsenic synonymous with beautifully-designed cardinal characters.

Across Final Fantasy history, characters similar Cloud Strife, Squall Leonhart, Tifa Lockhart, and Lightning are each what you’d picture arsenic conventionally attractive, highlighted adjacent much truthful by the awesome graphics the bid is known for.

Most of these characters are the enactment of decorator and shaper Tetsuya Nomura, who precocious directed some Final Fantasy 7 Remake and its sequel Rebirth. He’s besides known arsenic the creator of the Kingdom Hearts series, which shares a akin plan aesthetic successful regards to its characters (Disney crossovers aside).

So wherefore does Nomura marque each his characters hot? The question was answered successful an interrogation with Young Jump (and translated by Automaton), wherever Nomura explained however an speech successful precocious schoolhouse with a classmate shaped his full presumption connected the issue.

‘When I was successful precocious school, a classmate was playing a crippled wherever the main quality wasn’t bully looking,’ Nomura said. ‘They said, ‘Why bash I person to beryllium disfigured successful the crippled satellite too?’, which truly near a beardown content connected me.’

As a result, Nomura is present all-in connected charismatic protagonists, adding: ‘If you spell retired of your mode to marque them unconventional, you volition extremity up with a quality who is excessively chiseled and hard to empathise with.’

Looking backmost connected his enactment successful the archetypal Final Fantasy 7, Nomura said his existent presumption of making conventionally charismatic protagonists and eccentric antagonists hadn’t afloat taken shape, describing the crippled arsenic having a ‘strange party’ successful retrospect.

‘At the time, I was inactive young… truthful I conscionable decided to marque each the characters distinctive,’ Nomura said. ‘If you deliberation astir it, Final Fantasy 7 has a unusual party, doesn’t it? There was a batch of youthful recklessness.’

What is happening with Kingdom Hearts 4?

Nomura is presently moving connected Kingdom Hearts 4, which was originally announced backmost successful April 2022. There’s been nary connection connected the sequel since, but the manager has suggested that he’s contemplating whether to ‘finish the series’.

When asked astir aboriginal plans for the Kingdom Hearts series, Nomura, 53, replied: ‘I lone person a fewer years near until I retire, I person to determine whether to discontinue archetypal oregon decorativeness the bid first. However, I’m making Kingdom Hearts 4 present with the volition of it being a communicative that I volition complete.’

It’s unclear whether this means the Kingdom Hearts bid could wrapper up with different introduction aft four, oregon if the bid could proceed with a caller narrative. The adjacent introduction is already described by Square Enix arsenic starting an ‘epic caller storyline’ called the Lost Master Arc – truthful it’s imaginable that he’s alluding to this storyline specifically.

The large question is erstwhile we’ll adjacent spot Kingdom Hearts 4. The crippled isn’t listed connected Square Enix’s line-up astatine the Tokyo Game Show, truthful it’s imaginable we mightiness person to hold until The Game Awards successful December for a imaginable update.

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