Dragon Quest certainly has more iconic monsters due to Akira Toriyama's art, but I think FF has some really, really cool fantasy monster designs
Exploratory design for "Archery" suggested a temptation theme for the set, but through playtesting, we found that the designs had a darker tone, so we're holding off on the theme until "Baseball." At the time I handed off the vision design, the plan was to have two sets based on Eldraine: one a lighter version in the courts, and one a darker version as Rowan and Will ventured into the woods to rescue their father
Hamza is a six mana Green and White 5/5 that costs one mana less for every Creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it
For Pokmon, they simply translated existing texts and reused artworks
Clue tokens are fantastic
The way it sets up her second ability to give you miraculous discounts on enchantments is some real one-card synergy