Final Fantasy

Final Fantasy VII Will See ‘Dramatic Changes,’ and That’s Good

Don’t expect the upcoming remake version of Final Fantasy VII to be exactly the same game you remember excitedly talking to your friends about over the school lunch table. At least when it comes to FFVII’s battle system, things are going to be different the second time around, according to Game Director Tetsuya Nomura. Speaking…

Final Fantasy Composers Tease FFXII Remake [UPDATE]

We might be one step closer to getting to see Vaan’s emaciated, whiny abs in glorious HD. At a Final Fantasy Distant Worlds concert in Pittsburgh Saturday night, composer Arnie Roth randomly announced that yes, Final Fantasy XII is getting a remake, much to fans’ surprise. Hitoshi Sakimoto, who scored FFXII, was also in attendance.…

This Isn’t the Final Fantasy XV You’ll Play

One day, you will play Final Fantasy XV. It’s been a long wait. But you will not get to play this Final Fantasy XV Via Tumblr fartnoisespbth, this fan art shows FFXV characters with their genders changed. Here you can see how the designs were tweaked. This would probably address the complaints of those who…

The Monster Hunter-esque Final Fantasy Explorers hits North American 3DSes early next year, on January 26. In case you need a refresher on exactly what the game is about, there’s a debut trailer above, and you can find our impressions of the Japanese version here

Final Fantasy Type-0 HD will be out for PC on August 18, Square Enix announced this morning. It’s a messy, clunky game thatI loved way more than I should have. The PC version will have graphical improvements as well as “improved in-game battle camera, full Steam achievements and trading cards, scalable motion blur settings and…

Final Fantasy XIV Heavensward Log Three: Dragon Quests

Last night I fell asleep in my computer chair. I vaguely remember my hand slipping from my desk, the mouse crashing to the floor. The fearsome face of a massive white dragon filled my screen, a dialog box at the bottom indicating he was saying something about how my quest to restore relations between his…

Mobius Final Fantasy Needs More Plot

Mobius Final Fantasy (previously Mevius Final Fantasy) is the latest official Final Fantasy game. It’s a turn-based-with-an-element-of-tactics combat-centric game for iOS and Android platforms. In Mobius Final Fantasy, you play the part of Wal – or whatever you decide to name him – an amnesiac protagonist, tossed into the world of Paramitia. There he is…

Tough Final Fantasy Achievement Made Easier With Robots

There’s a challenge in Final Fantasy X (and an achievenemt in FFXHD) that tests the player’s ability to dodge lightning. It’s really hard for humans, but luckily, humans can build robots to help. Taking place in an area called the Thunder Plains, the challenge is called Lightning Dodge, and gives players a split-second warning to…

The Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward Song That Gets Me Every Time

It never fails. I teleport back to the Foundation area of the expansion’s new city of Ishgard, it’s nighttime, it’s snowing, and the most achingly bittersweet music plays. Though featuring similar musical themes, the music for entrance The Holy See of Ishgard is powerful and bold, appropriately representing a towering city that’s withstood countless attacks…

Square Enix Suspends Final Fantasy XIV Mac Sales, Offers Refunds

Citing thewidespread disappointment with performance and poor communication of system requirements, Square Enix has temporarily halted sales of the Final Fantasy XIV Mac client. Good call. Having spent the better part of two years using alternative methods such as Boot Camp to run Final Fantasy XIV on their systems, Mac had been clamoring for a…

Final Fantasy XIV‘s New Mac Client Is A Joke

Since Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn’s August 2013 release, Mac players have had to jump through the normal hoops to play a Windows game on their hardware. Now the game finally has an official Mac client, but by most accounts it’s not great. Until the release of the official Mac client, which coincided with…

Final Fantasy XIV Heavensward Log One: Finally

I’m trying to write my initial Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward expansion MMO log in such a way as to minimize my time away from Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward. This is a good sign. Early access for the first major expansion pack to Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn launched on Friday, June 19. I finally…

Four Hours of Final Fantasy VII Remake Reactions

Do you have plans for the day? How about clearing your schedule so you can watch people’s Final Fantasy VII remake reactions? Four hours. That’s right. Four. Hours. To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter@Brian_Ashcraft

World of Final Fantasy Lets You Pile Up Monsters

You know that otherFinal Fantsy game that was revealed at this year’s E3? It actually sounds pretty damn interesting as its director reveals. World of Final Fantasy has an admittedly adorable trailer, with chibi characters and characters with chibi (“small”) monsters on their heads. But aside from what we already know, the game looks to…

How The Final Fantasy VII Remake Came to Be

This year’s E3 had a huge surprise for us all: The Final Fantasy VII remake. But this wasn’t the only surprise. Prior to the official unveiling, Final Fantasy VII’s original character designer Tetsuya Nomura had no idea he’d be directing the remake. Square Enix – or rather, Square Enix’s former boss, Yoichi Wada – has…

So, About That Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward Coverage

Like thousands of other Final Fantasy XIV players I was awake at 5 a.m. Eastern on Friday morning to take my first steps into the game’s first major expansion. Then I realized Heavensward wasn’t quite like other MMO expansions. Most MMO expansions are level-based. If the new content is for players level 50 and above,…

Eight Things You Should Know About World Of Final Fantasy

Moments before stealing the show at Sony’s press conference by announcing the Final Fantasy VII remake that may make it in time for the PS5, Square Enix whipped out World of Final Fantasy, a chibi-sprite game that promised to be “adorably familiar” and looked like something made for kids. On Monday night, most of us…

Final Fantasy VII Scenes That Would Look Crazy In The Remake

The announcement trailer of Final Fantasy VII’s remake showed a slightly darker and more realistic world compared to the 1997 game. And with an aesthetic like that it’s almost impossible to imagine how some of the crazier parts of the original game would look. Take Cloud’s cross-dressing scene for example and compare it to the…

When Final Fantasy Characters Are Nightmare Inducing

Handsome. Good looking. Pretty. Those are the words that typically describe Final Fantasy heroes and heroines. Terrifying is not. This is what Noctis usually looks like. [via PS3 Brasil] Nothing scary about him! But, as recently noted on Japanese forum 2ch, here’s what he looks like with a HORRIBLE clipping glitch: Oh god. Fucking hell.…

The Final Fantasy VII Remake Won’t Be Exactly the Same

Final Fantasy VII originally came out in 1997, and now in 2015, a full–remake has been announced. Time marches on! And from the sound of it, so will Final Fantasy VII These days, HD remakes are pretty common! They usually are the same games, but with spiffy new graphics and, often, optional and updated controls.…