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Originally I thought it was Hironobu Sakaguchi. Then I found out he was mostly hands off and that it was headed by the directors, Yoshinori Kitase and Hiroyuki Itō. Now I learn that Soraya Saga, one of the illustrators under Yoshitaka Amano, basically created Edgar and Sabin and their backstories and dialogue. Tetsuya Nomura may or may not have done dialogue/stories for Setzer and Shadow, who he created.



Anyone ELSE?

Jeez, if I ever finish my radio adaptation, I'm going to have to give story credit at LEAST to Sakaguchi, Kitase, Itō, Amano, Saga, maybe Nomura, Woolsey, and Slattery. I hope there's not anyone else...

Anyone know if there is?

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I don't know any names, but why not simply give credit to Square as a whole, or simply the FF6 dev team? Generally in large-scale projects, the project directors are the ones whom most ideas go through, but the actual ideas can come from a lot of people. For instance, the design and backstory for a character may end up coming into being after a sketch is made on a whim and ends up working out well with a few people.

There's no actual formula for how to make a large project work, but generally the basic idea is worked out by a few people (generally the ones at the top of the project hierarchy) and gets reworked here and there: plot holes being spotted and filled, new characters working their way into the storyline, changes to the battle engine after some revisions or in the case of FF8, after large consumptions of narcotic substances, so forth. Tracking down who's responsible for every character, location, concept, or storyline elements may be quite a difficult task. Hence why it may be easier to simply credit the FF6 dev team as a whole.

The end credits sometimes mention things like, "based on xyz" or whatnot. In the case of Parasite Eve, the game was based on a novel IIRC and the original author is credited. I don't remember FF6's end credits too well (frankly, I think most of us just pay attention to the purdy moving pictures and not the actual text ) but picking through them may offer a bit of insight on who did what.

Good luck

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"Judge not a man by his thoughts and words, but by
the quality and quantity of liquor in his possession
and the likelyhood of him sharing."

You may be intrested to know IMDB lists Hiroyuki Ito as the story writer.

You may not be intrested to know it lists bugger all else apart from that.

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"Only the dead have seen the end of their quotes being misattributed to Plato."
-George Santayana

"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..."
-Abraham Lincoln, prior to the discovery of Irony.

Neither Nomura nor Kaori Tanaka (Saga) were credited as writers or character designers. They were both graphics programmers as I recall. These accounts of them being in charge of certain characters are based on their own claims, though I see no reason to doubt them.

Itou is a writer, so it seems likely that he was a primary contributor. Creative credits for this game are pretty mysterious, aren't they?

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"Cavefish is delicious, but only if cooked."

When examining backstory, most games do seem to have random, unrelated, and stylistically different stories kind of rammed together. It makes sense that the "writers" list would be a long one.

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"I had to write four novels before they let me write comic books."
-Brad Meltzer

It does eem like multiple people wrote it, though it could just be the translation, i've only played the US version. Though people say the same about Shakespeare, and i'm not comparing ff vi to Shakespeare ... worry not...

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Nerf Yiazmat!