"The pieces were set, but separated across games, creating two distinct visions for the Final Fantasy universe. It wouldn’t be until Hiro let go of the series’ next two installments that he would discover that the stories he’d been cultivating and the worlds he’d been building were elastic and interwoven; they had enough in common to support the grandeur and scope he’d originally imagined as the future of fantasy role playing."
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