Quote Originally Posted by ellohwell View Post
I'm sure the old team responsible for creating monster models didn't get fired! Nor any of the story-line writers. If they did, they didn't deserve to.

So I find that a pretty specious claim to say the new dev team wanted to use their own work; the original leviathan was their own work.
maybe when yoshi-p took over. he took one look at the old Leviathan and said "i don't like it. do it again" you stapping his authority. but really like i say i doubt we will ever know why. but there is a sticky thread for quests to ask him in the next live letters from the producer. maybe you should ask on that. maybe you will get an answer