Final Fantasy

Lightning Returns Isn’t Revolutionary, But It Is a Lot of Fun

Few sequels are as different as Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII is from the other titles in the FFXIII series. It has a new world and a battle system so highly modified as to be nearly unrecognizable. But when it comes down to it, these changes are all for the good as they make for…

Final Fantasy VIII is on Steam starting today, Square Enix just announced. It’s going for $11.99, and it comes with an optional cheating tool called Magic Booster and the mini-game Chocobo World.

Square’s Going All Out For The Final Fantasy X/X-2 Remakes

Here are a bunch of new trailers for the upcoming HD remakes of sports sim Final Fantasy X and pop star emulator Final Fantasy X-2, which will be out for PS3 on March 18 (and Vita at some point in the undetermined future, unless that version is mysteriously cancelled.) They’re looking good. Certainly better than…

Akihiko Yoshida, a brilliant artist and character designer, is leaving Square Enix. Yoshida, however, said he will continued to work on Bravely series.

Final Fantasy VI On Mobile Isn’t Looking Too Hot

While there is no way I’m not going to replay Final Fantasy VI on mobile—it’s one of my favorite games of all time, and I want it on my phone—these sprites are seriously bumming me out. They feel flat and boring and lifeless, like the artists were told to transform everyone into goofy, watered-down cartoon…

The global PS4 beta for Final Fantasy XIV begins on February 22, 2014. An April 2014 release date was also announced. That’s for Japan and,it seems, North America. [Thanks, Alex!]

And now for something different: the Final Fantasy V battle theme, played on eight floppy drives. Via MrSolidSnake745

There Are Three Words for This Ridiculous Final Fantasy Costume

One of them is bad. But that’s okay, I guess? Behold some of the latest Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII downloadable content. Today, Square Enix launched the first round of DLC for the game. The outfits, which come with weapons, are The Divine World’s Saint Clothing Style, The Final Liberation Clothing Style, and, wait for…

There’s A New Final Fantasy Out Today, And You Should Stay Far Away

Final Fantasy IV: The After Years hits iOS and Android today, and while it’s not as egregiously offensive as some other games in the once-beloved series (like the microtransaction machine All The Bravest), it is a terrible game and you should stay away. I wrote a little bit about The After Years last year, so…

The Next Generation Of JRPGs

It’s official: next-gen is now current-gen. We’ve got a whole new generation of video games to complain about, and two brand new consoles with zero JRPGs to play on them. Yeah, that’s a thing. If you’ve followed next-gen mania at all, you’ve probably noticed the serious lack of Japanese role-playing games. I’ve been keeping a…

My First Few Hours of Lightning Returns in Pictures

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII hit store shelves all across Japan yesterday and you can bet it has already found a home on my PS3. So last night, I sat down and spent a good five hours with the game—all the while jotting down notes and taking pictures for your enjoyment. [Spoiler Warning: Of course,…

The Japanese voice track and lip sync animations will be available as DLC for the English version of Lightning Returns The pack, per the latest announcement from Squeenix, will be free to download for two weeks after release, after which time it becomes paid DLC. Above is the newly-released “special effects” trailer.

This glitch in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn will get your character stuck in MMO emote hell, as you can see in the above GIF. To get similar results with a frozen upper torso, type “/sit,” then press the emote and the “w” buttons simultaneously. If you get lucky, you won’t fly away completely.…

11 Minutes of Lightning Returns: FFXII For Your Viewing Pleasure

The fine folks over at Japanese news site 4Gamer.netmanaged to get their hands on the shortly-releasing Japanese version of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. So, of course, they immediately went and captured some footage for the rest of us. So without any further ado, above’s eleven minutes of gameplay from the next Final Fantasy. 4Gamer…

If Disney Princesses Were Final Fantasy Characters …

We’ve seen classic Disney heroines as Street Fighter characters, but they’d make an even more outstanding and complete party as Final Fantasy characters, with all the essential jobs assigned to them. Digital artist Geryes took the most iconic Disney princesses, and reimagined them with belts and zippers, as if it were designed by Tetsuya Nomura…

Final Fantasy X & X-2 Out for PS3 on March 18

Squeenix has revealed the Western release dates for of their upcoming HD remasters for FFX and FFX-2 Both North America and Europe will be getting the games in March next year, on the 18th and on the 21st, respectively. In Japan, the compilation is still set to release in late December. We also have two…

Let’s Play Dress-Up with the New Lightning Returns Trailer

Good thing mizz Lightning has the time to stay fashionable in between going on missions to save the world. Otherwise, we couldn’t spend all this time looking at her fabulous outfits The latest and shiniest Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII interactive trailer from Squeenix has you help Lightning pick out a dress for her next…

Lightning Returns‘ Clothing Options Make Me All Giddy

Oh god. I didn’t realize I could do this. I am going to get stuck playing dress-up in Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII for days. Seriously, these are exactly the sort of completely unnecessary features that distract me completely from whatever saving-the-world nonsense I am supposed to be focusing on. They might as well just…

Check Out the Rejected Lightning Returns Logos

This is the Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy logo. You might have also seen this logo with an all-black background. But have you ever seen the rejected ones? At a recent event in Tokyo for Lightning Returns and Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD, Square Enix showed off the Lightning Returns logos it didn’t end up using. Below,…

Sources: Studio Behind Deus Ex And Thief Cancels New Game

Eidos Montreal, the studio behind Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Thief, has just cancelled a third game they had planned, multiple sources have informed Kotaku This isn’t Thief, which is out in February, or the next-gen Deus Ex planned for the future, but a third, unannounced game, sources say. We first heard the news from…