Tetsuya Nomura's True Intentions Discovered

Square Enix hotshot may have encoded a secret message in Final Fantasy Versus XIII.

2009-12-29 04:54 / Anoop Gantayat / 14 Comments

I've heard from a few people that Tetsuya Nomura is a PlayStation fanboy, which is why Final Fantasy Versus XIII isn't coming out on Xbox 360 and why Kingdom Hearts 3 is totally going to be released on the PlayStation 3.

Some 2channelers have found solid, irrefutable proof of Nomura's love of Sony.

That's Noctis Lucis Caelum, main character of Versus XIII. Why did Nomura go with such a peculiar-sounding name instead of something more fitting like Frank, Chuck or Todd?

Well, it seems that if you reorder the words in the character's name, you get:

"NOMULA IS SCE CULTIC."

Nomula is Japanese for Nomura. SCE is, of course, short for Sony Computer Entertainment.

From its root, I deduced that "cultic" must have something to do with cults, and sure enough Merriam Webster defines it as "great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book)."

I'm not really good with anagrams, but perhaps someone can find something similar for heroine Stella Nox Fleuret.

Here's a funny picture I took of Nomura at the Advent Children premier a few years back:

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Square Enix producer, director and character designer, known for his work on the Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts franchises.