Sakaguchi Posts Old Final Fantasy IX Developer Memos

Hironobu Sakaguchi, the man who created the Final Fantasy series and the boss of the development team Mistwalker, took the time out of his busy schedule with Last Story to dump some files from his hard drive onto the official Mistwalker site. 

Of relevance were some rather thought-provoking memos dated all the way back from July 17th of 1998 that him and his team wrote during the development of Final Fantasy IX, specifically covering the opening scene for the game. Sakaguchi points out on the post that there are some shades of inspiration for character development on Last Story from the personality of the characters in Final Fantasy IX.

One of the more entertaining memos is as follows:


[MOVIE] 4: Close up of Princess Garnet Close up of her breasts. View of her breasts inside the clothes (a little). Also a view of her pendant of royalty....  

-Hallway- She rushes away from the hallway. Two stare at each other.

Zidane: “Hey, was that..”

Thief: “Her breasts look comfortable..”

Zidane: “No, no, she was wearing the pendant of the summons permitted by only royalty.”

Thief: “I fell in Love at first sight..”

Zidane: “Deep blue stone… “The Legend of Leviathan”, was it Princess Garnet?”

Thief: “What are you talking about?”

Zidane: “Never mind, change of plan, let’s follow after her”.

Here's to hoping that Sakaguchi can find and post even more exciting documents from his vault!