There had to have been some meddling from the bigwigs. There’s no way Yoshida thought this was fine without a metaphorical gun pointed to his head. I mean look at how SE treated XV and the CEO literally opened the new year with “So HaVe YoU hEaRd Of NfTs?!?!1”. I would have waited another five years if it meant we got two more amazing stories like in ShB. Sadly we live in the instant gratification age and can’t have that, so instead here’s budget insert edgelord here and the convoluted mess not even Nomura while actually drunk could come up with.