Final Fantasy

Final Fantasy VII Player Hits Level 99 In The First Reactor

Over the weekend, a Final Fantasy VII player who goes by the handle CirclMastr got Cloud and Barret to level 99, which isn’t particularly impressive. What’s impressive is that he did it before the game’s first boss battle. It took roughly 500 hours, by CirclMastr’s count, to pull off this ridiculous accomplishment. He’s been plugging…

Random Encounters Are The Bane Of A Final Fantasy Speedrunner’s Existence

The Final Fantasy Series Relay Race III is going on right now, with three teams of seventeen people competing to see which can beat every game in the series first. Begun back in 2015, the annual event is streamed across several days with speedrunners on each team dedicating themselves to completing a specific Final Fantasy…

A Dire Warning About Final Fantasy’s Black Magic

Let’s go back. To a time before Jack Thompson, before age ratings. Back to 1980s Canada, when the most pressing concern with video game content—and how it was destroying the youth—was the black magic found in Final Fantasy. “And once again, it’s about how you can get in touch with your wizard”. If you’re short on…

The New Day Enter Wrestlemania With Final Fantasy Tribute

It’s Wrestlemania time, and hosts The New Day are doing their thing, entering the arena with a Final Fantasy homage. There are also Moogles present.

Final Fantasy XV‘s First DLC Is Short And Pointless

Final Fantasy XV, a Cup Noodles commercial cosplaying as a video game, got its first piece of downloadable content this week, and you really don’t need to bother with it. It’s short, straightforward, and—unless you’re particularly attached to Gladio—really boring. Episode Gladiolus, which came out yesterday for $5, starts off with the Final Fantasy XV…

Final Fantasy XIV‘s Free Trial Isn’t Limited To 14 Days Anymore

Good news! Square Enix has announced that it is no longer limiting the MMORPG’s free trial to fourteen days. According to the FFXIV’s most recent patch notes, “The 14-day limit of the free trial has been removed.” Below are the full trial notes: The Japanese patch notes are a bit more specific, explicitly stating that…

Final Fantasy XV Now Has An Alternative Chapter 13

If you are one of the many people who hated Final Fantasy XV’s thirteenth chapter, you will be pleased to hear that you can now skip it entirely, thanks to a new route that’s full of beefy Gladiolus shots and even political humor (see above). The “alternative” Chapter 13, which you can access from the…

Final Fantasy XV’s update 1.07 is live, setting up Episode Gladiolus and making big changes to the polarizing Chapter 13. If you’ve already beaten the game, you can see the revised chapter from the menu. If you can’t imagine subjecting yourself to it again, stay tuned: I’ll check it out tomorrow morning and report back…

The next time you want to skip those animations, World of Final Fantasy players, think of the poor artists.

Just Because A Game Is Old Doesn’t Mean It Must Be Cheap

I’m nuts for Secret of Mana. That blend of Final Fantasy RPG gameplay with Zelda-style action combat was the game that made me a fan of what we used to call “Squaresoft” back in the day. Today, all Square Enix has to do is put up a website that auto-plays one of the tunes off…

Final Fantasy XV‘s First DLC Pits Gladio Against Gilgamesh

If you, like many Final Fantasy XV players, have been wondering just what happened to Gladiolus when he mysteriously left your party in Chapter 6, here’s your answer: Episode Gladiolus, which comes out on March 28. Over the weekend, the developers at Square Enix released more info about the DLC as well as a new…

Final Fantasy XV Fan Scrapbooks Her Adventure

The majority of Final Fantasy XV is a road trip with friends. In real life, it’s the kind of thing you’d make a scrapbook out of. So one fan did. Huge FFXV fan Lithmire has been making a physical scrapbook of their Final Fantasy FFX playthrough. This means: printing out Prompto’s photos and putting them…

Final Fantasy X-2‘s Songstress Outfit Is A Time Capsule Of 2003

Final Fantasy X-2 introduced “dresspheres,” which were a callback to the Jobs system of Final Fantasy’s past. As a 13 year old in 2003, I thought Yuna looked amazing in her Songstress outfit, but as an adult I can’t help but think it’s a little bit over the top. Despite that, the Songstress dressphere’s 2003-ness…

And Now, A Cute Story From The Development Of Final Fantasy XV

One day during the development of Final Fantasy XV, as director Hajime Tabata was leaving for work, his six-year-old daughter came up to him and gave him a hug. “Without letting go,” Tabata said at a panel during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this morning, “she asked me, ‘How much longer will you…

First Look At The Final Fantasy XIV Themed TV Show’s Opening Credits 

In Japan, there’s an upcoming TV drama centered around Final Fantasy XIV. Previously, all we’ve seen were stills from the show. Now, we have the show’s intro sequence. Called Final Fantasy XIV: Daddy Of Light, the show follows the bond that develops between a son and a father while playing the popular MMORPG Final Fantasy…

A Wild Theory About Final Fantasy XV‘s Secret Dungeon

I have fallen into the rabbit hole of deep dives into Final Fantasy XV lore and I don’t think I’ll ever escape. Please send help. Spoiler warning, etc.  As many of you have already discovered, Final Fantasy XV has a secret dungeon called the Pitioss Ruins that’s one of the best things in the game. It’s very…

Final Fantasy XV’s User Interface Is So Bad

I like plenty of things about Final Fantasy XV, but the map and menus are not among them. This game’s interface is a mess of nonsense so carelessly taped together that it defies logic or comprehension. Final Fantasy XV introduces itself as “A Final Fantasy for fans and first-timers.” Over the fifty-odd hours I’ve spent…

Final Fantasy VI Retrospective: Simply The Best

In the first few minutes of Final Fantasy VI, just when you think you’ve got a sense of the game’s rhythm, everything changes. Your amnesiac hero Terra, who you’ve been controlling for half an hour and are probably assuming will be your protagonist for the long haul, falls down a hole and passes out. And…

Final Fantasy XIV‘s Interface Made Futuristic Thanks To HoloLens

We’ve already seen what Microsoft’s HoloLenscan do to Portal. Now, let’s picture what it can do to Final Fantasy XIV Japanese Twitter user Tanufuku created this mock-up to see how it could handle the MMORPG’s interface.  Tanufuku thinks this actually might make the game even more immersive as well as make it possible to play…

Final Fantasy VII Remade As A Huge Snow Sculpture 

TheSapporo Snow Festival is now underway in Japan’s northern most prefecture Hokkaido. One of this year’s main sculptures is Final Fantasy VII themed, featuring Cloud and Sephiroth. Impressive, no? Each year, theJapanese military moves all this snow to make these huge sculptures.  Lots of detail if you get closer. These TV news images might give…