Hold onto your Chocobos, because Nobuo Uematsu just dropped a bombshell more dramatic than a Final Fantasy plot twist: Square-Enix "collapsed" after Sakaguchi left.

Legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu has revealed his opinion on why Squaresoft needed to be merged into Enix back in the '00s.

If any of these developers were to leave their respective studios, it would be disastrous for those that remained, and that's exactly what happened when Final Fantasy creator Hiro ...

Sakaguchi resigned from the company before the merger went down, and according to fellow Final Fantasy legend Nobuo Uematsu, Square just wasn't the same without him.

"Square collapsed" after Hironobu Sakaguchi left the company, said Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu, adding the "situation at Square was awful after he quit".

Square Enix has also played host to a plethora of legendary names within the industry, with icons like Nobuo Uematsu, Yuji Horii, and Tetsuya Nomura among the studio's star-studded roster.

Final Fantasy has always been the flagship of Square Enix, and legendary composer Nobuo Uematsu recently revealed that the company almost collapsed after series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi left in ...