Sure, he created Final Fantasy, but after the first game, which was groundbreaking for its time, he only directed the least notable entries in the series. FFII and III are barely ever mentioned, and FFV is loved mainly for its job system, which wasn’t even his idea. Meanwhile, everything that actually made Final Fantasy iconic, the visuals, the music, the storytelling, came from people like Kitase, Ito, Nomura, Uematsu, and Amano. His big personal project? The Spirits Within, which almost bankrupted Square. But yeah, let’s pretend he was the genius behind it all.