During an interview with Famistu, he said "I'm pretty old now, body is getting weak, and now I'm counting the days I have left, which isn't something i thought i'd do one day when I was younger."
Early this week: Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu ‘could have made his last soundtrack’ | VGC“Before we approached him to work on Fantasian, he was going through some health issues, and there were concerns if he was going to be able to compose everything or if was it even possible for him to work on this,” said Sakaguchi