Final Fantasy VI also known as Final Fantasy III from its initial North American release is a 1994 role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the sixth main entry in the Final Fantasy series the final to feature 2D sprite based graphics 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.