Final Fantasy VIII Credits (PlayStation)
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Critic Score
100 point score based on reviews from various critics. 4.1
User Score
5 point score based on user ratings. |
Final Fantasy VIII Credits
Credits | |
| Executive Producer | Hironobu Sakaguchi |
| Director | Yoshinori Kitase |
| Music | Nobuo Uematsu |
| Main Programmer | Ken Narita |
| Battle System Designer | Hiroyuki Itou |
| Character Design / Battle Visual Director | Tetsuya Nomura |
| Art Director | Yusuke Naora |
| Scenario Writer | Kazushige Nojima |
| Image Ilustration | Yoshitaka Amano |
| Movie Director | Motonori Sakakibara |
| Movie Character Director | Hiroshi Kuwabara |
| Character Modeling Director | Tomohiro Kayano |
| Real‑Time Polygon Director | Akira Fujii |
| Battle Effect Director | Shintaro Takai |
| Motion Director | Tatsuya Kando |
| Card Game Director / Battle Camera Director | Takayoshi Nakazato |
| Lead Field Designer | Kazuyuki Ikumori, Kenzo Kanzaki, Yukio Natakani, Tetsuya Takahashi |
| Event Script Programmer | Shun Moriya |
| Battle Programmer | Hiroshi Harata, Kentarow Yasui |
| Event Director | Hiroki Chiba |
| Map Director | Takeshi Endo, Masaru Oka |
| World Map Director | Ikuya Dobashi |
| Sound Programmer | Minoru Akao |
| Sound Editor | Eiji Nakamura |
| General Manager | Yuji Shibata |
| Localization Director | Aiko Ito |
| Coordination Director | Tchie Tokoro |
| Localization Engineer | Richard Mark Honeywood |
| Marketing Managers | Akira Kaneko, Yasuhiro Suzuki |
| Assistant Manager | Tomomi Nishigaki |
| Localization Assistant | Yuichi Yamada |
Square Soft, Inc. | |
| Localization Management | Masahiro Nakajima |
| Localization Specialists | Yutaka Sano, Ryosuke Taketomi, Maki Yamane, Alexander O. Smith |
| Editors | Brian Bell, Richard Amtower IV |
| Associate Producer | Akihito Kozu |
| QA Manager | Jon Williams |
| Assistant QA Manager | Mike Givens |
| Lead Analyst | Judah Mehler |
| Assistant Lead Analyst | Ben E. Norman |
| Analysts | Jeff J. Love, Justin Dornan, Mohammed A. C. Wright, Michael D. Christoffers, Tam Nguyen, Kelly Chun, Richard Williams, Jaime J. Bencia, Simon Son, Bennett Neale, Troy A. Boren, James P. Wong, David Carrillo, Derek C. Smith, Matthew B. Rhoades, Chris Manprin, Jonathan A. Mankin, Terry R. Stone, Sissie Chang, James J. Robles, Clayton S. Chan |
| QA Translators | Kyoko Makino, Takahiro Soh, Rintaro Yoshida |
Square Electronic Arts L.L.C. | |
| Senior Customer Service Manager | Rick Thompson |
| Assistant Customer Service Manager | Fernando Bustamante |
| Customer Service Lead | Alaine C. de Leon |
| Customer Support Representatives | Patrick H. Cervantes, James Dilonardo, Tony Kim, Caroline Liu, John Montes, Arthur Yang, Mark Abarca, Mark Acero, Alan DeGuzman |
| PR and Events Manager | Lisa Ahern |
| Public Relations Associate | Francine DeMore |
| Business Development Manager | Elaine Di Iorio |
| Product Coordinator | Beth Faust |
| Sales Coordinator | Sean Montgomery |
| Media Planner | Kyoko Yamashita |
| Creative Planner | Keiko Kato |
| Assistant Product Manager | Andrew Shiozaki, Mitsuru George Torii |
| Product Associates | Andy Hsu, Irene Sam, Junko Shibata-Burke, Brad Varey |
| Product Administrative Assistant | Mari Takashima |
| Marketing Assistant | Rika Maruya |
| Product Manager | Keji Mimura |
| Vice Chairman | Yoshihiro Maruyama |
| President | Jun Iwasaki |
| Package/Instruction Manual Design | Steven Wright, Beeline Group Inc. |
| Special Thanks | Hideo Yotsuya, Lynn Biscoe, Beeline Group Inc., The Kenwood Group, Saatchi & Saatchi, C.H.E.N. PR |
European release credits | |
| Localization Specialists - French Lead Translator | Jacques Martine |
| Localization Specialists - French Translator | Raphaël Arconada |
Other Games
In addition to this game, the following people are listed as working on other games. No more than 25 people are listed here, even if there are more than 25 people who have also worked on other games.
David Carrillo, 137 other games
Yutaka Sano, 122 other games
Richard Amtower IV, 112 other games
Nobuo Uematsu, 80 other games
Alaine C. de Leon, 75 other games
Hironobu Sakaguchi, 71 other games
Fernando Bustamante, 65 other games
Jun Iwasaki, 58 other games
Tetsuya Nomura, 55 other games
Yoshitaka Amano, 52 other games
Kyoko Yamashita, 51 other games
Minoru Akao, 50 other games
Eiji Nakamura, 47 other games
Kazuyuki Ikumori, 46 other games
Patrick H. Cervantes, 45 other games
Mohammed A. C. Wright, 43 other games
Jon Williams, 42 other games
Hiroshi Kuwabara, 41 other games
Yuji Shibata, 41 other games
Jaime J. Bencia, 40 other games
Takahiro Soh, 40 other games
Sissie Chang, 39 other games
Derek C. Smith, 38 other games
Yoshinori Kitase, 36 other games
Sean Montgomery, 36 other games
Collaborations
People who have worked on this game have also collaborated on the creation of the following games:
Final Fantasy Anthology, a group of 68 people
SaGa Frontier 2, a group of 56 people
Chocobo's Dungeon 2, a group of 53 people
Final Fantasy IX, a group of 53 people
Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring, a group of 47 people
Chocobo Racing, a group of 45 people
Vagrant Story, a group of 45 people
Final Fantasy VII, a group of 43 people
Front Mission 3, a group of 42 people
Legend of Mana, a group of 42 people
Chrono Cross, a group of 40 people
Brave Fencer Musashi, a group of 39 people
The Bouncer, a group of 37 people
Xenogears, a group of 35 people
Driving Emotion Type-S , a group of 34 people
Threads of Fate, a group of 34 people
Parasite Eve II, a group of 34 people
Final Fantasy X, a group of 31 people
Final Fantasy Chronicles, a group of 29 people
Parasite Eve, a group of 29 people
Kingdom Hearts, a group of 27 people
Final Fantasy V, a group of 25 people
Bushido Blade 2, a group of 25 people
Final Fantasy X-2, a group of 22 people
Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII, a group of 19 people
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