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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Nomura's games tend to suck more often than not nowadays, but I don't think he's made an outright failure in relation to budget.

IDK about that. His last five major games are:

-Theatrhythm Final Bar Line (widely beloved)
-Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin (warmly received, meme fiesta)
-NEO TWEWY (sold poorly, but extremely well liked by its fanbase)
-KH Melody of Memory (kind of a meme game, reception was positive but not stellar)
-FF7 Remake (speaks for itself)

That's all hits of some stripe, and some of them massive hits either critically, financially or both. There's always this instinct to blame Nomura and treat him like a failure and idk where it comes from. The man is objectively the second most successful game director at Square, and like the third or fourth overall in Square-Enix after Yuji Naka, YoshiP and perhaps Yoko Taro. One can dislike his works without trying to paint him as a failure! He's never been the reason for Square having a tarnished reputation.