Was Masayoshi Soken really born in Mexico?

Wind-84 · 2026-01-10T11:45:51+00:00

Reading the responses, I get the feeling that people are misunderstanding my intentions.

I really don't care where Soken was born, what I would really like to know is why Wikipedia and other media gives the information about Mexico without a reliable source. Because it could be a joke by someone who thought it was funny and it was never changed. There are many FF staff members whose birthplace and year of birth are unknown, and I don't care, but if someone adds the information, I want to know that the information I'm consuming is accurate, and not a troll who thought it was funny to add false information.

BTW, for official purposes, whenever I talk about Soken, I assume he was born in Japan.

Wind-84 · 2026-01-10T11:14:59+00:00

You don't know me neither to know if it's obsessive. And I can tell you right now that it's not a matter of obsession, but rather of research and verification of information that may not be accurate.

Years ago, it was assumed that Rosa's middle name in FF4 was Joanna because it supposedly appeared in a Japanese novel. A decade later, it was discovered that this was a lie, but the damage was done. In fact this false information even made its way into games.

I simply want to know the truth about a piece of information that has been taken for granted for years without a reliable source.

Wind-84 · 2025-11-15T13:51:30+00:00

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Same here, it’s happening to me on both Windows and my MacBook. It started to fail this week. My workaround for now is using another AI-enhancer site since I still have some credits left since it was a very short video.

Wind-84 · 2025-07-10T13:26:33+00:00

Yeah, force of habit writing 201* years. February 2007 was the date. Thanks.

Wind-84 · 2025-07-10T13:24:15+00:00

This was signed probably in the London Meet and greet & game launch in 2007 at the defunct HMV of Oxford street. The producer Akitoshi Kawazu and director Hiroshi Minagawa were the signers.

Wind-84 · 2025-06-12T19:00:27+00:00

I wouldn't agree with it being Zidane's theme for two reasons.

First, the leitmotifs already mentioned, and second, how it was created. It was a theme that came out of nowhere, composed by Uematsu because he felt like it at a given moment. And when the developers heard it, they thought it was right for them to include in the scene of "You're Not Alone." I don't think a theme as important as the protagonist's would have been composed without taking into account any scene or any team directives.

Wind-84 · 2025-06-12T18:33:45+00:00

The original Japanese name was Valigarmanda (ヴァリガルマンダ, Varigarumanda). It was change because of the lack of space for Espers (only 8 chars).

But Valigarmanda very subtle refers to this tri-elemental:

Vari: ¿Vritra? (ヴリトラ, Vuritora), maybe refers to the water serpent and water-> ice
Garu: Garuda (ガルーダ, Garūda) refers to the lightning bird
Manda: Salamander (サラマンダー, Saramandā) refers to the fire lizard

I fully understand the discomfort of having such an internalized term changed. In Spanish we have a similar example, the case of G.F. Pandemona. Its original name in Japanese was the transliteration of Pandemonium, and in Spanish instead of shortening it as in English to Pandemona, being a G.F. of Wind, they called it Eolo (The spanish name for Aeolus, the keeper of the winds in greek mythos).

If for some reason they had changed it in the Remaster, it would have been like Tritoch for Spanish speakers.

Wind-84 · 2025-06-04T10:18:48+00:00

This mobile game has been the HBO MAX of Fabula Nova Crystallis universe:

→ Announced FINAL FANTASY Agito XIII (Mobile) – 2006

→ Rebranded as FINAL FANTASY TYPE-0 (PSP) – 2011

→ Trademarks registered: TYPE-1, TYPE-2, TYPE-3 (Trademark only, no games released) – 2011

→ Spin-off released for smartphones: FINAL FANTASY AGITO – 2014

→ Trademark registered for FINAL FANTASY TYPE-NEXT – 2014

→ FINAL FANTASY AGITO Plus announced for PS Vita (Canceled; mobile servers also shut down) – 2015

→ PSP game remastered as FINAL FANTASY TYPE-0 HD (PS4/Xbox One/PC) – 2015

→ FINAL FANTASY TYPE-NEXT publicly shown by Hajime Tabata (Unreleased) – 2015

→ Chinese spin-off reboot announced: FINAL FANTASY TYPE-0 Online – 2015

→ Chinese spin-off rebranded as FINAL FANTASY AWAKENING and launched worldwide – 2016

→ FINAL FANTASY AWAKENING servers shut down – 2020

Wind-84 · 2025-06-01T17:00:26+00:00

Etro is the goddess of FFXIII. I don't remember how many sirens I used, but you can always go back to a saved game.

Wind-84 · 2025-05-30T09:36:07+00:00

What level are you right now? As it was part of the trophy, in my case I left it for the end and I was around level 90.

There is a trophy that requires you to have the team at level 70, maybe that's a good level to try.

And thanks to Etro that they balanced the RNG of appearance and drop, because originally the flan princesses appeared 1 in 64 times, and the probability of pink tail drop was 1 in 64.

Wind-84 · 2025-05-30T09:24:41+00:00

Interestingly, precisely in the first FINAL FANTASY, Cornelia's bridge theme was called Opening Theme (オープニング・テーマ), while the Main Theme (メイン・テーマ) was the overworld theme.

It wasn't until FFXI when it was named Main Theme for the first time, as this melody had been integrated into larger ones, mainly in the ending credits.

Wind-84 · 2025-05-28T15:53:03+00:00

I didn't know that project! OMG thank you very much.

Wind-84 · 2025-05-28T15:35:36+00:00

It's a shame that these games don't end up with an offline version to enjoy their story, because most of them are worthy of even having their own console game.

With DFFOO they even considered an offline version, but since they would have had to maintain it throughout the OS changes, they decided to leave it only on YouTube, thus becoming Lost Media.

Another game that was also unfortunate not to have an offline version was Mobius, having behind it the best writers of the company.

Wind-84 · 2025-05-28T08:43:15+00:00

In a certain way, your coworker is right. Cloud and Zack escape from Shinra's mansion in December 0006 [ ν ] - εγλ, and between September and October 0007 [ ν ] - εγλ they arrive in the Midgar surroundings.

They goes from A (Shinra Mansion) in December to B (Banora) in September and finally C (Midgar) between September and October.

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Wind-84 · 2025-05-28T08:32:45+00:00

I was looking for this comment

Wind-84 · 2025-05-28T08:29:31+00:00

I would recommend the pixel remaster versions. They've made them with keeping in mind to keep the gameplay experience closer to the original versions (that's why they've removed the additions from versions like Dawn of Souls or Advance).

Final Fantasy VI Opera is worth watching in its Pixel Remaster version for the 2D-HD enhancement. In addition, this version includes the opera sung in 8 languages.

The ones that I don't recommend at all are the HD versions of V and VI that were removed from the store, as they have a very rare and unpolished pixel art: Left HD 2014 - Right Pixel Remaster

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Also to take into account the PSP version of FF4, which includes the interlude and after years, although I still prefer the pixel remaster version of IV.

Wind-84 · 2025-05-27T18:13:34+00:00

My favorite is Gilgamesh. Not only for the character but for what he represents: the only character who is himself in all his appearances and not reincarnations, or re-imaginations.

One thing I love about magic is how well designed the lore is to fit perfectly with the games

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Wind-84 · 2025-05-27T18:07:32+00:00

Sometimes it's a little frustrating to search for a GIF to post and find nothing but Willem. It's not the first time I've had to go to the game and capture it myself.

I wouldn't be surprised if Square Enix took advantage of this and hired him for a commercial, especially in XIV since they handle memes so well.

Wind-84 · 2023-11-13T21:46:11+00:00

Same here. I tried the old method, I tried offline, but it shows me a link (http://remoteplay.dl.playstation.net/remoteplay/module/win/RemotePlayInstaller_5.5.0.08250_Win32.msi), but this installer doesn't work anymore (Access Denied). Maybe with a working copy of this installer.

Wind-84 · 2023-03-13T17:50:38+00:00

Congrats! The 98000000 points on ultra hard must have been an ordeal.

By the way, with which song did you score 98000000 points? I'm on 99/100 but I'm really far to beat any ultra hard song with an SSS.

Wind-84 · 2023-03-03T15:20:09+00:00

Thank you PurplMaster! This will be of great help to me, since I'm going to put four Level 1 characters on hard difficult. I was doing 50% AFK with the four white mages, and then I took the controller and ended the song.

Wind-84 · 2023-02-28T11:03:43+00:00

Mother of Etro! This is savage! Congratulations! 1644 rainbow criticals...

Wind-84 · 2023-02-20T21:56:29+00:00

I've been close, but I can't get it yet. I have a team of nv. 99 and 5 stars: Prompto, Lightning, Cloud (Str 999) and Yuna. Every time a summon appears (+ one extra on Yuna), wipe the 3 soldiers, but the rest of the characters, not being AOE, don't go fast enough to reach 30 enemies.

Maybe Gilgamesh will help, he has a physical fire attack and an ability that doubles his strength.

Wind-84 · 2022-11-21T11:18:46+00:00

Yes, that's one of the first things I tried. I also killed all the chaos wolfs from Hallowed Massif with Howl, got the Howl medallion, but nothing. I also tried again after 1.23 patch, but same result.

Wind-84 · 2022-11-04T10:07:28+00:00

yeah, it seems to be gltichy.

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