https://wiki.zenithxi.com/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Mizuki_ItoMizuki Ito - Revision history2026-07-06T06:44:02ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.9https://wiki.zenithxi.com/index.php?title=Mizuki_Ito&diff=64321&oldid=previmported>Lusiphur at 18:18, 5 May 20232023-05-05T18:18:21Z<p></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[File:Mizuki ito.png|thumb|Mizuki Ito, former Director of FFXI]]<br />
'''Mizuki Ito''' (伊藤泉貴) joined the [[Final Fantasy XI]] development team as a planner and the majority of his work prior to the initial release was on monster pathing.<br />
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During the [[Treasures of Aht Urhgan]] era of the game, Ito and [[Daisuke Sase]] were responsible for the [[Zeni Notorious Monster]] system. By the end of his tenure on FFXI, Ito would have a hand in [[Abyssea]], [[Besieged]], [[Campaign]], [[Dark Ixion]], [[Dynamis]] (including Dreamlands and designing [[Dynamis Lord]] specifically while listening to "Awakening"), [[Einherjar]], [[Limbus]], [[Salvage]], [[Sandworm]], [[Voidwatch]], and more. He would oversee or be a main developer of much of this content.<br />
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Ito was the Battle Director before the beginning of the [[Abyssea]] era of the game, [http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics/ff11us/detail/6064/detail.html taking over as the 5th Director] on December 10th, 2010. He replaced [[Akihiko Matsui]], who left to work on salvaging [[Final Fantasy XIV]].<br />
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In December 2011, Ito was at the center of a controversy with Japanese players after [https://ffxi.allakhazam.com/story.html?story=28416&storypage=1 an interview] he gave with [[Allakhzam]] was poorly translated on an anonymous Japanese message board. He was attributed as saying Abyssea was a failure. On December 26th, he [https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/18909-ZAM%E3%81%AB%E6%8E%B2%E8%BC%89%E3%81%95%E3%82%8C%E3%81%9F%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF%E3%83%93%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E8%A8%98%E4%BA%8B%E3%81%AB%E3%81%A4%E3%81%84%E3%81%A6 took to the official forums] to try to correct the record.<br />
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On April 1st, 2016, [http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics/ff11us/detail/14742/detail.html it was announced] Ito left his role as Director of Final Fantasy XI and [[Yoji Fujito]] replaced him. Ito left to work on prototype design for '''Final Fantasy VII: Remake'''.<br />
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==Related Links==<br />
* [https://twitter.com/mzk110mzk Mizuki's abandoned twitter account]<br />
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