Final Fantasy 14 superfan and series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi is running riot with the goofy FF6 outfit he made Yoshi-P add to the MMO

Jun. 4, 2024

And he’s already got an entourage

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Final Fantasy 14 diehard Hironobu Sakaguchi is now tearing around the MMO in the outfit he specifically requested game director Naoki Yoshida put into the game.

Maybe you know of the Kappa, the Japanese imp-like folklore creatures, or maybe you don’t. They adore cucumbers, swimming in lakes, and generally being a nuisance to anyone and everyone. In particular, though, they’re used as a fairy tale warning to stop children from swimming in lakes.

If you didn’t already know, the Final Fantasy series has featured Kappa in the past. The impish creature appears near the beginning of Final Fantasy 6 when Cyan and Sabin recruit Gau, and a Kappa pops in momentarily to explain how Gau’s Rage skill works and acts as a tutorial. You’ll also turn into one if put under the Imp debuff.

Somewhat inexplicably, the entire adventure took yet another twist, when Sakaguchi appeared onstage during Final Fantasy 14’s live show in Tokyo in a Kappa suit. The Kappa strolled proudly on stage, hugged Yoshida, and then removed its headpiece to reveal that it was none other than the Final Fantasy creator himself in disguise.

Recently, the famed Kappa outfit debuted in Final Fantasy 14 after much work fromSquare Enix, and the results are just marvelous. As you can see in the tweets below, Sakaguchi has been running riot in the MMO in the Kappa outfit, causing chaos wherever he goes and no doubt drawing in a crowd of players looking to join him in the act.

From the look of Sakaguchi’s second tweet above, it seems like once players see Sakaguchi striding along confidently in his Kappa outfit, they then join in and change into the ridiculous garb themselves. Speaking toDefaminicogamer, Sakaguchi says players “couldn’t believe their ears” when he spoke up and they realized it was the creator of Final Fantasy in the costume.

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