I <3 Tanaka. always have, always will.
I'm not sure what 'elements' led to the XIV launch disaster, but i do at least understand what he was going for,
and had it been finished, it would have been every bit as ground-breaking for the genre as VII.

Anyway, so we're losing the lead battle designer to XI then?
<___> I should be worried, but with Yoshi at the helm and given how well everything is going with XIV right now,
maybe it's just a turn of events that will somehow make future battle content even better than ever.