Weirdness: Final Fantasy Creator Hironobu Sakaguchi Aspires to Be a Hip Hop Star

Mega64 do it again

by Robert Ramsey Fri 6th Mar 2015

The man who made Final Fantasy, Hironobu Sakaguchi, is easily one of the gaming industry's most important figures. The 52-year-old's legendary status is well deserved, but Mega64, one of gaming's pioneering comedy groups, have viewed the director's career from a slightly different angle with their newest video.

Sakaguchi stars as himself, as he aspires to become a hip hop artist. Instead, his musical dreams fall to one side, as the titles that he creates continue to take the world by storm.

If you're already a fan of Mega64 and their work, you'll probably be desperate to see this anyway, but we'd urge any fan of Final Fantasy to take a look – even if it's just to see the franchise's founder go mental with a stapler.

[source youtube.com]

Robert (or Rob if you're lazy) has been a fan of PlayStation since the 90s, when Tekken 2 introduced him to the incredible world of video games. He still takes his fighting games seriously, but RPGs are his true passion. The Witcher, Dragon Quest, Mass Effect, Final Fantasy, he's played 'em all — a little too much, some might say.

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themcnoisy
Fri 6th Mar 2015

What's sakaguchi doing these days? Didn't he make lost odyssey for the 360? If you are ff fan its well worth playing and some of the pre rendered backgrounds are gorgeous... Just checked wikipedia and he made secret of mana, blue dragon and rad racer. What a legend!!! Lost odyssey was one of the best 360 games and had a cross between final fantasy 8 and 10 vibe, and had this awesome right trigger function in battles. Will it ever come to ps?

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Splat
Fri 6th Mar 2015

Is that Johnny Gat?

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Kage_88
Fri 6th Mar 2015

@themcnoisy Sakaguchi founded Mistwalker, which developed Lost Odyssey and The Last Story. I think they're currently porting their mobile RPG Terra Battle to consoles! Nobuo Uematsu is with them, too!