Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy maestro Tetsuya Nomura says Super Mario 64 "truly shaped my current guiding…
Tetsuya Nomura, known for his work on Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy, revealed that Super Mario 64 on the Nintendo 64 was the primary inspiration for his guiding principle of enabling free movement in full 3D. He contrasted this with the development of Final Fantasy 7 on PlayStation 1, where only characters were 3D and backgrounds were rendered images, limiting free exploration.
- Entities
- Platform: PlayStation 1
- Platform: PlayStation 2
- Game: Final Fantasy VII
- Topic: Game Design
- Company: Square Enix
- Company: Nintendo
- Game: Super Mario 64
- Platform: Nintendo 64
- Person: Tetsuya Nomura
- Game: Kingdom Hearts
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