Matsuda also made some other daring changes. In 2015, Square Enix announced that Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts 's main character designer, Tetsuya Nomura, would no longer be in charge of Final Fantasy XV 's development — that responsibility went to newcomer Hajime Tabata. Although many questioned this decision and it is rumored to have created some internal conflict within the company, it ended up being the right call; Nomura was getting nowhere with XV, and now he had taken on another major project in Kingdom Hearts 3.