To say that Final Fantasy is a cult saga is an understatement. You just have to read the flood of comments generated by the release of the remake of the legendary episode VII, in full confinement, to realize this. In the second episode of "GAMERS", the new original podcast of Europe 1 Studio, Jean-François Morisse returns to the history of this Japanese game which owes its unique universe to a singular artist: Yoshitaka Amano.
In the video game world, rare are the sagas to have risen to the rank of myths. Final Fantasy is one of them. Behind this incredible Japanese role-playing game, men and women whose names have today gone down in history. Among them: Hironobu Sakaguchi, Nobuo Uematsu and Yoshitaka Amano.
It is to the latter that we owe the very particular aesthetic that made the success of the series. However, nothing destined this confidential artist and a bit austere to evolve in the video game industry. So how did Amano become one of the leading figures? What succession of events and chances have enabled him to move from the status of “simple” illustrator to that of reference in the creation of video game characters? Jean-François Morisse went to ask him! In the second episode of Europe 1 Studio's new original podcast, GAMERS, the secret stories of video games, discover the story of the legendary "chara-designer" who designed the visual world of Final Fantasy.
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GAMERS is a Europe 1 Studio podcast
Voice, writing: Jean-François Morisse
Production: Timothée Magot
Production: Christophe Daviaud
Edition and distribution: Clémence Olivier