Hirodao Tanaka is a participant in the development of Final Fantasy 1 and Final Fantasy 2, and has accumulated a lot of valuable experience. Until later, final fantasy iii undertook a very important design work in the game system, and formed a "double sword combination" with Sakaguchi Hironobu of Father of Final Fantasy. However, nearly 65,438+00 years later, Hirodao Tanaka almost passed Final Fantasy, so that Final Fantasy 4 to Final Fantasy 65,438+00 had nothing to do with him, just because final fantasy iii was completed at that time, he was transferred to assist Akitoshi Kawazu and successfully developed the GB game The Secret of Sagayi.
Hiroto Tanaka is far from the fertile soil of the RPG project FF, but he is known as the "ARPG Master" of SQUARE in the society. Together with Ishii Koichi, he successfully developed two masterpieces, Legend of the Sword and the Chivalrous Man 2 and Legend of the Sword and the Chivalrous Man 3, and then directed the development of project XENOGEARS by Gao Qiao Zheye, and even directed the original works.
Since then, many players in the late 20th century have regarded "whether the production of this game is supervised by Hiroto Tanaka" as an important criterion to judge the quality of ARPG games produced by SQUARE. Even when SQUARE first promoted "armor of different dimensions", the advertising slogan was "What is the reason why the legend of the Sword and the Chivalrous Man can't be sold?" As a propaganda word, it emphasizes that the producers of Legend of the Sword and the Chivalrous Man are participating in the development and production of the game. Hirodao Tanaka's active degree and decisive leadership ability are self-evident.
However, just after Alien A left SQUARE, Hirodao Tanaka was appointed by Sakaguchi Hironobu to set up the third technology development department of SQUARE, and presided over the production of Chrono Cross.
At the end of 1999, SQUARE has officially announced that it will develop new games on Sony's next-generation home console PS2 platform. Hiroshi Tanaka found that the PS2 platform has the powerful function of connecting the network through ADSL, so he quickly wrote a detailed project plan with Ishii Koichi and wrote to the management of the company: the future of the network has arrived. In order to seize the opportunity, he asked the company to develop the online version of Final Fantasy. Obviously, Hiroshi Tanaka saw the development trend and future direction of online social games, and expected to return to the largest IP Final Fantasy through the online game version of FF. Seize the opportunity, seize the opportunity and occupy the business pioneer field. Any point in the project proposed by Hirodao Tanaka is an excellent development opportunity, just like a "military order". Tanaka said that if the company can't meet his requirements, he will leave his job and go to another company to realize the "fantasy" of opportunities in this era.
After the management including Sakaguchi Hironobu repeatedly weighed the pros and cons of this project, Sakaguchi finally agreed to their request. Many people say that Sakaguchi is eccentric and Tanaka is his classmate, so he made this decision out of humanitarianism, making Final Fantasy 1 1 a "traitor" in the Final Fantasy series. But everyone who knows Sakaguchi knows that he likes adventure! Like innovation! Final Fantasy 1 1 will become the first online game in FF history and the leading MMORPG game in Japan. In this way, the news that Final Fantasy 1 1 will be made into an online game MMO RPG immediately caused a shock in the industry.
On May 6, 2002, 16, the production cycle of the project was two and a half years, and the sales volume of Final Fantasy 1 1, which cost as much as 6 billion yen, was actually not as good as expected, and barely reached 200,000 registered users in eight months. The former president of Nintendo, "Yamauchi Pu" and other people in the industry asserted that the plan was a complete failure on the grounds of "premature time". However, time will tell. After Final Fantasy 1 1 was released on PC, it attracted tens of thousands of PC users based on the curiosity that "the new generation of Final Fantasy can only be played on Sony platform". The number of users of FFXI has been steadily increasing, and soon it has successfully crossed the break-even point. The conclusion is obvious. The continuous revenue scale it created has also become the most stable long-term income source of SQUARE ENIX.
It is undeniable that for FF series, its development world has been further developed and entered a brand-new field due to the bold leadership of Hirodao Tanaka. On February 5th, 2003, FFXI was awarded the highest AMD award by the Japan Digital Technology Association (AMD) for the eighth time-Minister of General Affairs.
However, in order to continue the product iteration of Final Fantasy 1 1, Final Fantasy 14, which is also a MMORPG online game, was still developed by Hiroto Tanaka. It's a pity that the so-called "people are dying", all the honors and resounding achievements in the past have left the veteran game producer behind, and the seeds of "beyond redemption" have been deeply planted. ...