Talk:Tetsuya Nomura/Archive 1

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...those criticisms are completely biased. This is supposed to be an information page, not a bash-a-thon. -nanashi-san xD

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Can someone please tell me where Nomura said that Kingdom Hearts II would end Sora's arc of the story? I've read through all of Nomura's interviews, including the KH2 Ultimania Omega, and he never has said that KH2 would end Sora's story. If no one can validate this information, I think it'd best to delete it since it'd be giving inaccurate information. If anything from what I read, Nomura has stated that Kingdom Hearts is Sora's story and it isn't over just yet.

Nomura speaks English?
In the second sentence of Nomura's article, it says that he speaks English fluently. Is this true? NeoSeifer

Hello? Please answer my question... NeoSeifer

My friends met them at the Advent Children premiere and said that he does not speak any English; he also had a translator with him. My other friend met him a separate event and she said he didn't speak any English either. --unsigned

That's strange...in a few sentences he spoke some English in a few of his interviews, i think we need to look into it more —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.249.176.77 (talk) 17:28, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

HE IS STUPID 4 NOT PUTTING KH3 ON PS2 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.121.208.134 (talk) 23:35, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Reused Designs
I won't deny that Nomura might be reusing designs, but I don't understand this particular comment:

For example: the costume the main character of Final Fantasy XIII wears is almost exactly the same as that of Yuna's in Final Fantasy X. Similarly, the costume worn by the main character of Final Fantasy XIII: Versus is wearing what looks like a darker version of Cloud from Final Fantasy VII's costume.

I disagree with the first example, since I fail to see enough similarities between Yuna's FFX attire and the protagonist of FFXIII's. Does the person who put this comment in think the character's clothes resembles Yuna's FFX-2 clothes? I'm open to other people's opinions on this matter (for both examples).


 * Ah, yes, sorry. I made a small mistake there, I meant to put Yuna's FFX-2 costume, not her FFX costume. I'll fix it. -CieloVagrant


 * "Almost exactly the same"? Look again before you conclude they are near identical. For example, Yuna's outfit mainly consists of blue shorts, an additional "side-skirt" as well as a white top and a pink 'hoody.' The character from FFXIII wears a BROWN SHIRT with no 'side-skirt,' weilds a variation of the GUNBLADE, has a RED CAPE and a white shirt that goes down to the hem of her skirt. I fail to see the resemblance, so if you please, give us a valid example before associating two completely different costumes as "almost exactly the same." Observation 15:15, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: Kingdom Hearts: Chain Of Memories
it sais in the article the remake of Kingdom Hearts: Chain Of Memories is Kingdom Hearts: Chain Of Memories which is not correct. i changed it to Re: Kingdom Hearts: Chain Of Memories, hope you dont mind :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.214.201.212 (talk) 01:18, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

FFIX characters are... better because you think so?
Quote: "Strangely, characters with whom Nomura has had no part in the creation of have a tendecy to be somewhat deeper and more complex, like the entire cast of FFIX."

This is complete biased opinion used her to make a statement; which I find highly unacceptable as it is not an actual FACT. "Like the entire cast of FFIX" is a weak example; it isn't specific and there is insufficient methods of "measuring" how "deep and complex" a cast of characters are, not to mention different people will have different opinions about the matter. Observation 15:21, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Rumors section?
Who the heck came up with the material in the rumors section? It's not cited, and as far as I know, there have been no news stories concerning teenagers acting out because of Nomura's style. This section makes it sound like a wide-spread movement. I'll give the author 5 days to cite his or her sources before I remove it myself.

Wikifying
This whole article needs to be wikified. It's basically three sections. 1) Glob of biographical text 2) Extremely large and biased "criticism" section and 3) Works.

I think the concentration needs to be taken off of his criticism and placed on getting his biographical info sorted out and wikified. Also, there should be a photo of him for wikipedia use somewhere... --Second crimson 01:47, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

FFXI
I challenge the statement that Nomura was in anyway involved with Final Fantasy XI, please present reliable sources (as in "not user edited like mobygames" and more like IGN or SE itself). Don't point me to the game credits, as everyone who has played the game will tell you, the game has no credits beyond the generic copyright ones on the webpage or on the manual which only credit Amano for the title art and another person for the GC art where appropriate. --84.184.90.167 17:15, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Nomura was involved in FFXI as the story NPC designer. Nobuyoshi Mihara was the character designer Sjones23 00:36, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * The staff list for FFXI is accessible from the Playonline Viewer (PC ver.)->Games->FFXI->Developers' Room->Staff List. Nomura is credited for "Humes and Elvaan Designs" and the "Story NPC Designs". Mihara is credited for "Mithra & Galka Designs" and "Character & Costume Designs", while Tamae Kisanuki is credited for Tarutarus and NPCs. Late response, but better late than never...Darkhunger 03:34, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Where Did TETSUYA NOMURA Graduate From ???
I Wanna Ask Whst's The Art School's Name Which Tetsuya Namura graduated from please I need The Answer ... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.101.150.115 (talk) 18:45, 28 April 2007 (UTC).

Put a pic of him.

Criticism - Fix it or Dump It
The criticism section has remained unsourced for 10 months. Either information with sources needs to go in there, or the whole thing has to go out. I'm deleting it from the main article and putting it here - when sources can be found, it can go back in. Rebochan 18:57, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Original criticism section
While his artwork and style was praised by many fans of the Final Fantasy franchise, especially the legions of new fans that joined the series with the release of Final Fantasy VII, Tetsuya Nomura has been criticized by fans of the original character designer Yoshitaka Amano, who did the character and graphic designs for the first 6 games, as well as providing character and promotional artwork illustrations for the next 4 games. Fans of Nomura point out how deeply involved he was with Final Fantasy titles before Final Fantasy VII, especially his work on the monster designs in Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy V and Final Fantasy VI, as well as his involvement in the creation of popular characters Shadow and Setzer Gabbiani for Final Fantasy VI, which were both redesigned by Amano for the game itself. His fans have also noted that Amano has still produced promotional art for other entries in the series and that Nomura was very cautious about using Final Fantasy IX's Vivi (as well as Setzer, of whom Nomura recognizes Amano as the designer) as a character in Kingdom Hearts II because Nomura himself was not the character's designer.

In 2000, Nomura stated in a magazine interview that he would like to work with Nintendo, which caused some controversy since during that time Square was openly not working with Nintendo. Square issued a statement that Nomura's comments did not represent the company's plans and policies. Ironically, Nintendo and Square reconciled a few years later which led to the release of Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles in 2003 as well as numerous Square RPGs on Nintendo handhelds (e.g. Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories and the Nintendo DS Remake of Final Fantasy III) to even as far as staff members (e.g Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga/Partners in Time).

Debugger first?
Some websites cite that Nomura was a debugger for Final Fantasy IV before being the monster designer for Final Fantasy V. Does anyone know what if this is the credits for FFIV? ~ Hibana 17:38, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 11:05, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Citation from Next magazine
Next magazine's rating system is arbitrary. Their 7th best person may be another publication's 20th best person or 2nd best person. After all, it's all a matter of opinion. Therefore, it's better to skip the ranking business and, instead, use that mention as a citation for the first sentence that indicates that Tetsuya is well known. Consequently, I've turned that citation into a reference for the first sentence, the sentence that indicates he is a well known video game director & character designer. ask123 (talk) 06:32, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

FF7 remake
Can I just remove the Final Fantasy VII remake quote? I looked on google and I can't find a source--Jim88Argentina (talk) 20:13, 28 February 2010 (UTC)