The current status is that he’s really active on lemmy still and will sometimes pop in on these type of posts and answer your questions.
He did do a follow up about how to take a poop when you haven’t for three days lol. So he clearly had trouble getting started again but I think he’s well now.
Giving you an upvote for FFVII, that was the game that got me into gaming. Still have the best memories of that one