Final Fantasy

Poll: The Top Five Most Popular Final Fantasy Heroines In Japan

Everybody has his or her favorite Final Fantasy heroine. But which ones are the most popular in Japan? A new poll tries to answer that question. According to Nico Nico News (via My Game News Flash), two hundred men and women in Japan were asked this month to list their fav female character in the…

I Appreciate That Final Fantasy XV Lets Us Troll Its Ending

Final Fantasy XV’s ending is a trainwreck, so it’s fitting that the game lets us choose to make it even goofier. Spoilers for the ending of Final Fantasy XV follow. Really, I shouldn’t say ending. Like many a JRPG before it, Final Fantasy XV ends in waves, some of which are good, some of which…

Final Fantasy XV Gets Its Own Gold Saucer

Next week, Noctis will adorn his finest chocobo outfit for a trip to the Moogle Chocobo Carnival, which starts on January 24 and transforms the city of Altissia into a theme park full of minigames. There’s dancing, fishing, photography, and of course, machine-gun firing. New trailer above. In other news, turns out Final Fantasy XV…

The Ten Stages Of Coping With Final Fantasy XV’s Chapter 13

So you just started playing chapter 13 of Final Fantasy XV. It sucks. You feel trapped in a nightmare that will never end. Take some small comfort in knowing that you are not the only one to suffer through it. By working through these ten stages, you will eventually come to terms with this very…

How To Get Ariana Grande in Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, Because You Can Do That Now

As promised earlier this month, singer Ariana Grande is now a playable character in Final Fantasy mobile game Brave Exvius. Here’s how to add the bunny-eared performer to your pixel party. First off, you have to have a copy of the free-to-play game installed on your iOS or Android device. Just search the store for…

Check out these Final Fantasy XV food recreations! Twitter user Setsu has done a wonderful job of bringing FFXV food to life.

Speedrunners Tear Through The Original Final Fantasy

If you’re a Final Fantasy fan, there are far worse ways to spend a few hours than to watch this wonderful AGDQ speedrun of the first game on NES. In this run, which lasts around four hours, speedrunners Feasel and Gyre (along with puwexil on the couch) power through Final Fantasy using all sorts of…

Prompto Is My Boyfriend

I’m leaning against a tree. The back of my shirt is beginning to itch and my palms are sweaty. It’s a humid August day, but on our ride home he insisted we stop. “Isn’t that a nice tree?” he had said. It is: the branches hanging low, filtering the light like fireflies. There was no…

Final Fantasy VII nearly had a lot more character deaths than Aeris, according to an oral history published on Polygon Director Yoshinori Kitase originally planned to kill off most of the party by the end of the game. The piece is an incredibly exhaustive retrospective on the game’s design, featuring interviews with dozens of designers…

Final Fantasy XV Player Glitches Out Of Bounds, Explores Second Half Of The Game

The second half of Final Fantasy XV ditches the open world road trip in favor of a series of linear areas connected by train, which raises an obvious question: How much of that was meant to be bigger? One player did some digging to try to find out. Using an out-of-bounds glitch to escape the…

Final Fantasy XV‘s Prompto Sure Is Good At Photography

One of the best features of Final Fantasy XV are Prompto’s photos. Every time you rest for the night, the game will show you a roll of photos from that day’s adventures which you can save and share on social media. These randomly generated mementos are mostly unique to your particular game, giving it a…

Ariana Grande Final Fantasy Remix Is Weird, But Not Bad

As if adding Ariana Grande’s likeness to Square Enix’s free to play mobile game Final Fantasy Brave Exvius wasn’t strange enough, her song “Touch It,” will also be given a fully orchestrated remix for the game. It’s kind of ….good? Music producer Nick Wood from SYN Productions, a music studio he co-founded with Simon LeBon…

YouTuber Beats Final Fantasy XV At Level One With No Items

A determined player has beaten Final Fantasy XV without gaining a single level or using items. YouTuber BOYvsVIDEOGAME played through the entire game with nothing other than his skills and obsessive perseverance to sustain him. This isn’t the first time that BOYvsVIDEOGAME has completed a game under extreme conditions. He’scleared Dragon Age: Inquisition solo on…

Ariana Grande Is In A Final Fantasy Game

Welcome to 2017. The pop star will be a character in free-to-play mobile title Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, which was released on iOS and Android around six months ago. Here’s some footage of the character: And here is a very strange photo: And here’s Grande cosplaying as…herself, I guess. Note that this kind of cultural…

The Parents Who Name Their Kids After Final Fantasy Characters

The people who fell for Final Fantasy in its glory years when it was huge on the NES, Super NES and then the PlayStation are now adults. They’re having kids, and they’re the kinds of people who just might name their daughter Aeris or their son Kain. Giving your kid the name of a Final…

Final Fantasy V Retrospective: Wildly Underrated

Final Fantasy V, a video game about four warriors who get together and beat up a giant tree, doesn’t try particularly hard to be innovative. In fact, it doesn’t try at all. Final Fantasy V is essentially an enhanced version of Final Fantasy III, proving rather definitively that Final Fantasy games don’t have to be…

Final Fantasy XIV Gets A Raid In Ivalice

As if Final Fantasy XIV wasn’t rad enough already, last night Square Enix announced that one of the game’s next raids will head to Ivalice, the world of Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy XII. And, most importantly, the raid will be designed and written by Yasumi Matsuno, the director of those games The Return…

Final Fantasy XIV May Let You Pay To Catch Up 

The biggest barrier for entry in Final Fantasy XIV, a tremendous video game, is that you have to catch up with the entire story to play each new expansion pack, which can take dozens and dozens of hours if you’re behind. Square Enix wants to change that. Over the weekend, FFXIV director Naoki Yoshida published…

What Makes Final Fantasy XV‘s Aranea Highwind Boss Fight Great

Final Fantasy XV has some wonderful boss fights. Aranea Highwind offers an memorable encounter thanks to an onslaught of smart design choices. We take a closer look in this video. Transcript: The combat system in Final Fantasy XV lends itself to some grand moments. More often than not, you’re battling hoards of monsters or clashing…

Final Fantasy XV Gets New Game Plus Next Week

Square Enix will add a New Game Plus mode to Final Fantasy XV via patch on December 22 alongside a “Holiday Pack” DLC that will contain a bunch of goodies, the publisher announced today. Naturally, you’ll get more if you pay. The New Game Plus mode is free and will be available to everyone, although…