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Hironobu Sakaguchi: Fantasy Man
“So, what are you doing in London today?” The hairdresser speaks in broken English, pausing every few words with the sheer effort of foreign sentence construction. “I am a video game journalist,” I reply, hopefully. “Ahhh!” he laughs, a mixture of amusement and the relief of simply understanding the response. “I just interviewed Hironobu Sakaguchi,” I offer. A pause. “Do you know the Final Fantasy games? He made those.” I need a haircut, sort of, but really I came to this unassuming hairdressers near Oxford Street for this specific conversation. Never meet your heroes, they say: they can only disappoint. There’s bruising truth in the clich
