Naoki Hamaguchi Archives

The latest development update comes from the Square Enix website, which now lists Naoki Hamaguchi as the game's director alongside Tetsuya Nomura. From WWG: While a good portion of people are pulling pranks on one another, April 1st also happens to be the start of the fiscal year, which means more and more companies are beginning to recruit new[...]

According to development leader Naoki Hamaguchi, this new design was said to have finally got the go-ahead from director Tetsuya Nomura While it's been a struggle for the team, the hard work appears to have paid off as Nomura went as far as acknowledging it as "the closest one to the original up until now." A[...]

The latest report from FF-Reunion (and translated by Gematsu) indicates that development on the Final Fantasy VII remake is changing to an "internal setup" at Square Enix. The news makes its way to us from a recent Mobius Final Fantasy live stream, in which project lead Naoki Hamaguchi revealed that Square Enix has shifted its focus away from working[...]