Final Fantasy

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…

FFXIV‘s Got 1.5M Players. Guess That Massive Overhaul Paid Off.

Final Fantasy XIV hit 1.5 million registered players in its first two months, and if you’re wondering what that means, here’s one suggestion: A Realm Reborn was worth it. First, let’s put that number in context: 1.5 million might be negligible for a free-to-play game, but Final Fantasy XIV is a subscription-based MMORPG. All of…

Tidus’s Laugh Makes The Big Bang Theory Actually Funny

The Big Bang Theory without the canned laughter and Tidus’s horrible laugh from Final Fantasy X are both very uncomfortable to watch separately. But YouTuber skylazor mixed the two together, and the result is… something really special. And it could have been even better with the Japanese version Big Bang Tidus [YouTube] To contact the…

Remember, People Outside Japan May One Day Make A Final Fantasy Game

One of the saddest game cancellations of the last few years has got to be Grin’s Fortress, an ambitious Final Fantasy title that would have been the first major game in the franchise to be developed outside Japan. Those interested to see what a Western take on the series might look like, though, still have…

Unseen Tetsuya Nomura Sketches From the 1990s

These days Square Enix’s Tetsuya Nomura busies himself with Final Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts III. But let’s take a look back in time, before he was the famous game designer he is today. Takashi Aki, who worked as a planner on Final Fantasy V and FFVI, was recently cleaning up and discovered a handful…

The Ultimate Video Game Music Cover Band

Award-winning composer and Blizzard dev Jason Hayes has gathered an army of prolific musicians, from session stalwarts to symphony stars to the pianist from freaking Toto, just to do video game music covers under the name Critical Hit. Here’s the first one. It’s pretty amazing. Not to discount the work of the thousands of video…

This Generation’s Best Final Fantasys Weren’t Named “Final Fantasy”

This console generation saw only a few Final Fantasy games during its time in the sun but luckily two of them were amazing. Of course, I am not talking about Final Fantasy XIV—decent as it is after its relaunch—or any of the Final Fantasy XIIIs. No, I’m talking about Lost Odyssey and The Last Story…

The Final Fantasy VII Victory Music Sounds Incredible As A Cappella

A cappella master Smooth McGroove has made a name for himself by re-creating vocal versions of classic game music. His stuff is usually very good, but this week he’s outdone himself, tackling my favorite video-game victory music and utterly owning it. A while back, I wrote an article about choosing the perfect JRPG victory music…

Final Fantasy VII Isn’t On Phones Yet Because It’s… Too Big?

Last week, we reported that Square Enix wants to bring Final Fantasy VII to cell phones. Today, we’ve got an explanation for why that hasn’t happened yet: the game is too big, Square says. “Unfortunately, it’s not that it’s not impossible for us to develop Final Fantasy VII for mobile,” Square Enix top man Takashi…

Lightning Returns Video Shows A Different Class Of Final Fantasy

Got your skepticism goggles on? Okay. After months of gameplay footage and details, I’m ready to call it: Lightning Returns looks like the best single-player Final Fantasy we’ve seen in years That’s right. AsRandom Encounters fans undoubtedly know, I’m on record as disliking both previous games in the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy, which will end…

Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster is dated for Japan. Out December 26, it will also include “The Eternal Calm” and “Last Mission.” No word about a Western release.