Final Fantasy

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Cloud-Based Gaming

Final Fantasy VII’s Cloud beingannounced for Super Smash Bros. got me thinking—what other games could benefit from the addition of stoic little Clouds? That’s right, this week you’re all the evil anti-Bob Ross. There are plenty of games out there. Surely some of the ones you’ve played don’t have Cloud in them but might benefit…

June 2011? Hey there, Nostradamus

How To Play Final Fantasy XIV‘s New Strategy Mini-Game, Lord Of Verminion

Step one: Watch what I do here. Step two: Avoid doing any of that. Today’s update 3.1 for Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward brought a slew of fresh content to Square Enix’s MMORPG, but nothing quite as exciting to me as the chance to take all of the pets I’ve collected since the game relaunched and…

Final Fantasy XIV update 3.1 is live, bringing more story, dungeons, missions, hairstyles and a minion-powered strategy mini-game to the second (and gaining) most successful subscription-based MMORPG. Check out thefull update notes here. See you in Eorzea!

Final Fantasy, You Sure Look Different

WAIT THIS ISN’T A “DISNEY PRINCESSES AS TKTK” POST. Nor is it a Kingdom Hearts post, so sorry. I think it’s something cooler than either of those things. These illustrations are by David Adhinarya Lojaya, an artist from Indonesia who works in games, film, animation and books. They take Final Fantasy characters from across the…

Artist Completely Redraws Final Fantasy IV‘s World Map

Final Fantasy IV’s pixelated original overworld and all the locations on it got a beautiful facelift from artist TJ Townsend. Now it looks like a proper world map from a modern JRPG. And he recorded the entire process and shared it on YouTube. Pretty cool to see how it all came together. The best part…

The Reason Why Final Fantasy XV‘s Main Characters Wear Black

It’s not simply because the color looks cool. Or because the characters hate pastels. On the Final Fantasy XV forums, the game’s director Hajime Tabata answered a question as to why all four characters were in black. Here’s Tabata’s explanation: The clothing worn by the four main characters is the official battle gear of the…

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII should be out on PC in December, according to a recent message on the development team’s official Twitter. The port, the tweet says, is currently getting some finishing touches, with the team promising to share more info soon.

Final Fantasy XV Will Have Amazing Video Game Rocks

You want great rocks? You’re going to get great rocks. It’d be nice to get Final Fantasy XV, too! To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter@Brian_Ashcraft Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond.…

That Time Final Fantasy Ditched Nintendo For Sony

Final Fantasy shows up on every platform under the sun these days, making it hard to remember the RPG juggernaut used to be one of gaming’s biggest exclusives. But over the course of Final Fantasy’s more than 30 years of video games, it’s twice shifted alliances in ways that had huge rippling effects. That Actually…

That’s a Great Fight Scene for a Medicine Commercial 

I’m trying to think of the last time I saw a fight scene this well done in a medicine ad. Hrm. Nope. I got nothing. Here, we have Japanese figure Mao Asada fighting against, well, Mao Asada after her sister falls ill. As tipster Ryan points out, the TV spot has shades of Final Fantasy.…

Final Fantasy XV Needs To Chill With The Marketing Dripfeed

Have you heard the news? Final Fantasy XV has chocobos! And also there might be airships. Or maybe there won’t. There’s definitely fishing! Here’s a new, revised version of the trailer you saw a month ago! Over the past few months, perhaps to overcompensate for a decade of development hell, the people behind Final Fantasy…

Noctis from Final Fantasy XV Smells Okay, I Guess

You’ve seen what Noctis looks like, and this weekend, I learned what he smelled like. The fragrance was created in the character’s image, so if you catch a whiff, you probably get an idea of the character’s scent. At least, that seems to be the idea. We’ve known about the Noctis Eau de Toilette for…

21 Things We Just Learned about Final Fantasy XV 

At the Tokyo Game Show today, Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata answered a whole bunch of questions about the game. We learned new things! Such as.. – They will not include Japanese and English language voice tracks on the disc, because apparently, they can’t fit both on the physical game. But according to Hajime…

Final Fantasy XV Has Chocobo Drifting

In Final Fantasy XV, you don’t have to travel around only by car or on foot. You can ride Chocobos and make those big birds drift. This is bonkers! There’s a speed dash, and then you can slow down suddenly and drift ‘em and hop over crocodiles. And when you are done with that, you…

Square Enix Is Making Final Fantasy Type-0 Online

Final Fantasy Agito is dead. It’s no more. In its place, Square Enix is launching a new online game in its place: Final Fantasy Type-0. Currently in development, the game is aimed for global players (unlike the Japan-centric Final Fantasy Agito), and there will be a beta test in China. The hack-and-slash will launch sometime…

Making Final Fantasy XV Involved: Rock Climbing, Hiking, and a Giraffe

You just thought the people making Final Fantasy XV sat inside all day in front of computers? They probably do! But sometimes, they go outside and do stuff in the name of FFXV. Adventurous stuff. The above clip shows the FFXV team as they looked for real-world locations for Final Fantasy XV. Besides being skilled…

Final Fantasy Adventure Gets Yet Another Remake

Final Fantasy Adventure, which came out in 1991 for the Game Boy and was actually not a Final Fantasy game but instead the predecessor to Secret of Mana, got a remake in 2003 for the Game Boy Advance called Sword of Mana, which isn’t a strict remake but in fact overhauls just about everything from…

Aeris’ House From Final Fantasy VII, Rebuilt In Unreal Engine 4

The flowery home of Final Fantasy VII’s Aeris, a tiny, fragile island of peace in the middle of the Sector 5 Slums, now has a fan-made Unreal Engine 4 version. It’s the work of Clémence Maurer and he remained faithful to the original one. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Remember that Final Fantasy VII spin-off, Final Fantasy VII G-Bike? The mobile title, which isn’t yet a year old, is ending service on December 15. The reason Square Enix gave was that it was difficult to offer a satisfactory experience.