>>717680446
Kawazu was the one who actually designed FF1 together with Ishii so no, if anything it's the opposite.
What little Final Fantasy has in terms of identity is what Kawazu and Ishii made with the first two games, Sakaguchi being a fraud was only capable of telling other people to copy what Kawazu and Ishii made in the first two games, which is also why FF4 for instance reuses a lot of FF2's story and characters wholesale but flanderizes them.
>SaGa was always a commercial disaster, and its existence was subsidized by Final Fantasy's mega success.
SaGa 1 was literally Square's first million units selling title, despite Sakaguchi really wishing it would bomb as the petty asshole he is, but okay.