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Patreon at patreon dot com slash retronots and I'll let you get to this free preview of one of our exclusive episodes. Oh, So I want to start with some context by briefly talking about the last two

mainline Final Fantasy games of 14 and 15, because the circumstances behind their creation are a complete mess.

So 14 had to be scrapped and rework from the ground up after it launched, while 15 started development as Final Fantasy

versus 13 a decade before it launched and the remaining DLC was canceled

after the director of that game left the company.

So they have not had a great track record in the past decade

with a smooth production.

It's weird that a production with a global pandemic

in the middle is relatively smooth compared to what came before.

And you know, I was looking at Hajj made Tabata was the guy who directed Final Fantasy 15.

And when I was still in the press, I interviewed him.

And shortly after that, I don't think it was my fault he left Square Enix to form his

DJP games and I was wondering like what happened to him and what he did after that well his only release at this point was

2021's the Pegasus dream tour it was an iOS and Android game it was the first

Paralympics video game, but it was playable for all of six months because their license expired.

But that's where Hajjme Tabata is, and he was the steward of the Final Fantasy series

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