Hironobu Sakaguchi
also known as Final Fantasy III from its initial North American release in 1994, is a role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. "Final Fantasy VI" is the sixth main entry in the "Final Fantasy" series and the first to be directed by someone other than series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi; the role was instead filled by Yoshinori Kitase and Hiroyuki Ito. Long-time collaborator Yoshitaka Amano returned as character designer and concept artist, while composer Nobuo Uematsu returned to compose the game's score, which has been released on several soundtrack albums.