{"id":89801,"date":"2019-03-21T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/03\/video_square_enix_staff_share_secrets_and_memories_of_final_fantasy_ixs_development"},"modified":"2019-03-21T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T16:30:00","slug":"video-square-enix-staff-share-secrets-and-memories-of-final-fantasy-ixs-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/21\/video-square-enix-staff-share-secrets-and-memories-of-final-fantasy-ixs-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Square Enix Staff Share Secrets And Memories Of Final Fantasy IX&#8217;s Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/29bbd1d165703\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/29bbd1d165703\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Final Fantasy IX\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/29bbd1d165703\/final-fantasy-ix.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/29bbd1d165703\/final-fantasy-ix.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Final Fantasy IX\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Amazingly, the Nintendo Switch is slowly but surely becoming a <strong>Final Fantasy<\/strong> fan&#8217;s dream console. Last month saw the release of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/final_fantasy_ix\">Final Fantasy IX<\/a><\/strong>, the adored <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/final_fantasy_vii\"><strong>Final Fantasy VII<\/strong><\/a><\/strong> launches next week, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/final_fantasy_xii_the_zodiac_age\"><strong>Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age<\/strong><\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/final_fantasy_x_x-2_hd_remaster\"><strong>Final Fantasy X | X-2 HD Remaster<\/strong><\/a><\/strong> both arrive in April.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Final Fantasy IX, various members of the development team for that game have taken part in a video interview shared by Square Enix on YouTube. The video is the first in &#8220;an ongoing series of developer featurettes&#8221; called &#8216;Inside FINAL FANTASY&#8217;, which is set to celebrate the games by bringing together interviews with a variety of original creators, artists and developers.<\/p>\n<p>This Final Fantasy IX video features Shinji Hashimoto (Producer), Toshiyuki Itahana (Artist), Kazuhiko Aoki (Event Designer) and Nobuaki Komoto (Event Planner), who all discuss the process of the game&#8217;s creation and reveal the odd secret or two along the way. You&#8217;ll need to turn on YouTube&#8217;s closed captions setting (one of the options at the bottom right of the video) unless you&#8217;re fluent in Japanese.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FdsqEurMd2I?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>Have you been enjoying Final Fantasy IX? Will you be picking up Final Fantasy VII next week? What a time to be alive.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazingly, the Nintendo Switch is slowly but surely becoming a Final Fantasy fan&#8217;s dream console. Last month saw the release of Final Fantasy IX, the adored Final Fantasy VII launches next week, and Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age and Final Fantasy X | X-2 HD Remaster both arrive in April. Speaking of Final Fantasy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}