Keep Nomura Far Away from Final Fantasy

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He's had so much success that people stopped telling him no, even when it was very obvious he needed to be told to stop.

Kingdom Hearts went from a beloved nostalgia-fest into a narratively convoluted mess stuffed to the brim with half-formed philosophies and whatever he should have been working on in therapy that week. He's clearly brilliant, but he needs to be surrounded by people who are good at letting him fly when he's being brilliant, and bringing him back down to the ground when he's gotten too far away.

If Nomura had a talent to make great game he would have delivered with FF15 as well but he didnt and just left a mess that someone else needed to fix. In this review of 15 someone talks a bit about stories of the development while Nomura was in charge
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At one point he wanted to make FF Versus13 into a musical. Even Kojima isn't this insane, Nomura clearly belongs in an asylum.

Is anyone else glad that he is not directing FF16 and not involved with character designs so we can have people dressed in somewhat normal clothes for once?
 
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He recently directed FFVII Remake and it was great.

FFXV problems comes from execution not concept, the characters are actually pretty good and dressed fairly normally, not to mention you can change their clothes to something else if it bothers you.

If you care that much about plot in a game involving Donald Duck and Goofy you are the one who belongs in an asylum.
 
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He recently directed FFVII Remake and it was great.

FFXV problems comes from execution not concept, the characters are actually pretty good and dressed fairly normally, not to mention you can change their clothes to something else if it bothers you.

If you care that much about plot in a game involving Donald Duck and Goofy you are the one who belongs in an asylum.

I'm happy ff16 has no involvement from him, ff7 Remake was also directed by Naoki Hamaguchi And Motomu Toriyama who probably kept Nomura on a leash.

If Nomura was in Charge we probably would have a Dozen Cloud and Sephiroth Clones with different colour hair.
 

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I'm happy ff16 has no involvement from him, ff7 Remake was also directed by Naoki Hamaguchi And Motomu Toriyama who probably kept Nomura on a leash.

If Nomura was in Charge we probably would have a Dozen Cloud and Sephiroth Clones with different colour hair.
If we believe the ultimania books Nomura was actually the one that kept the other two on leashes, they wanted to go even crazier
 
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I am fine with him doing VII Remake and KH (under supervision) but thats it. Remake trilogy is a nice bonus for Square, but it absolutely needs the main games to cone out on time, on budget and with good audience response.

XV is obviously the most visible damage he did to S-E but KH3 sucked too. I watched streams of it from a friend who loved the first two and it was awful. Terrible combat, uninspired levels (except Toy Story), wet noodle story that failed to wrap stuff up, etc.