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>>8264997
Final Fantasy 1 is blatantly just Dungeons & Dragons, and while some monsters are generic enough to slide, there's more than a few that were just pulls from the Monster Manual. The Evil Eye was so blatantly a Beholder that they revised it into a completely different design before the game even left Japan, and the franchise mainstay the Ochu is flat out called Otyugh in Japan to this day. Ochu is harder to see the origins sometime as both Otyughs and Ochus have gone down wildly different paths from the original illustration.

>>3984265
I LOVE Amano's concept art but the bulk of it lost its character once they reached the actual game, whereas Toriyama's simple style translated perfectly to sprites. It's a damn shame that now that we have hardware good enough to properly accommodate Amano's unique artystyle, he's getting on in years and has been relegated almost solely to logo designer.

And let's be honest for a moment: every single monster from FF1 is straight out of the original D&D Monster Manual. They even had to change some after the initial release to avoid getting sued.