16 Facts About Hiroyuki Ito

Hiroyuki Ito, is a Japanese game producer, director and designer who works for Square Enix.

Hiroyuki Ito is known as the director of Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy IX and Final Fantasy XII and as the creator of the Active Time Battle system in the Final Fantasy series.

For Final Fantasy V, Hiroyuki Ito designed the fully customizable Job system.

Hiroyuki Ito created the 'Chicken Knife or Brave Blade' choosing event.

Hiroyuki Ito was responsible for the battle systems in Final Fantasy VIII and Final Fantasy Tactics before he once more took on the role of director with Final Fantasy IX.

Hiroyuki Ito had the idea to make its protagonist Zidane Tribal flirtatious towards women.

Hiroyuki Ito created the License Board of Final Fantasy XII with the intention to give the player much freedom in developing characters to their liking without becoming too complicated.

Hiroyuki Ito stated later that he considered the game design and battle system of Final Fantasy XII a "definitive contribution to the gaming lexicon" and that it had "the potential to shine in future games".

In September 2012, Hiroyuki Ito said that he would work on another Final Fantasy game if the company's president wished for it.

The corporate executive of Square Enix's 1st Production Department, Shinji Hashimoto, mentioned in July 2013 that Hiroyuki Ito was "planning and doing some proposals for a new project" and "putting some ideas together".

Hiroyuki Ito thinks that it is his job to smoothly implement a game so the people in charge of the stories do not have to worry about this aspect.

Hiroyuki Ito believes that the most important factor of the Final Fantasy series is the player's feeling of accomplishment after beating the game and seeing "The End" on the screen.

The Active Time Battle system was similarly inspired by Formula One, as Hiroyuki Ito had the idea to give characters different speed values after seeing a race in which the cars passed each other.

At the CESA 2006 Japan Game Awards held on 22 September 2006, Hiroyuki Ito accepted the "Grand Award" and "Award for Excellence" for Final Fantasy XII.

Hiroyuki Ito thanked the development team, longtime fans and new players alike and said that the team was grateful for the awards as they could not possibly think about the game's reception during its creation.

Hiroyuki Ito stated that he was taught the basics of game design by Ito.