If many remember his legendary “Excited Please” and insult to PlayStation Experience 2014, when the fantasy remake public was entitled to a simple port of Final Fantasy 7 on PS4, Shinji Hashimoto’s CV still tops the episode . Hired by Bandai in the early 1980s as a sales representative, then a producer, joined Square Software in 1994 and was exposed to the Final Fantasy series during the production of Final Fantasy VII. Become the producer of Final Fantasy 8.In the 2010s, he was appointed brand manager (Brand Manager), so his name continues to appear in most Final Fantasy games as a producer or executive producer.
After becoming Executive Director of Square Enix, Shinji Hashimoto is also considered one of the great architects from the birth of the Kingdom Hearts series, he acted as a bridge between Square and Disney officials, who were in the same building office. Shinji Hashimoto’s retirement, 64, is not abrupt, and preparations have been going well since last year when Kitase Kaden took over the handover of the Final Fantasy franchise.
In this pre-retirement ceremony, Naoki Yoshida especially sent a large bouquet of flowers to Shinji Hashimoto, and also thanked him for keeping him in obscurity when he took over the “Final Fantasy 14” project. As we all know: Years later, the same Yoshida Naoki went on to film the saga’s most lucrative episode while his team was in charge of the highly anticipated Final Fantasy 16.
“Thank you all for your hard work. As of today, May 31st, I am retired. Thank you to everyone who has helped me in various fields during my tenure. From now on, I’m going to support Square Enix as its biggest fan.thank you very muchpublished who will still advise the group as a business advisor, especially helping to train its future leaders.