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>>10250558
>Somebody at Square obviously read the D&D books

That was Kawazu

>We were all big fans of Wizardry and Ultima back then. Even though Dragon Quest had come out, in our minds, there still wasn't anything quite comparable to Ultima or Wizardry. That's the kind of game that Sakaguchi and Hiromichi Tanaka and I were interested in. As far as my role in the game went, I was mainly in charge of the battle system and battle sequences. For that, I tried to make it as close to Dungeons & Dragons as possible. That was my goal.

>Weird because the rest of the series seems like your typical monkeys copying Wizardry and Dragon Quest without knowing anything about pen and paper rpgs.

That's because Kawazu left the series after FF2 and started the SaGa series, which continues to build and innovate on actual RPG mechanics and concepts and blows FF out of the water