Final Fantasy

Here’s The First Official Trailer For The Final Fantasy X HD Remaster

We only just got confirmation that the HD remasters of Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 are coming to North America, and already the first official trailer has surfaced. So what if it’s partly in German? As far as we know, this trailer was supposed to come out tomorrow. We’ve reached out to Square…

Awesome, Those HD Remakes Of Final Fantasy X And X-2 Are Coming To North America

Square Enix has just announced that both Final Fantasy X and X-2 are getting the HD treatment not just in Japan, but here as well. The PS3 will receive a one-disc bundle of both games, while the Vita will receive each game separately. Here’s Square Enix: Square Enix Inc., the publisher of Square Enix interactive…

One Last Crazy Theory About Mass Effect 3’s Ending

This is the last time that you’ll ever lose someone after this it’s you and your friends it’s you and your friends. —Stars, “The Last Song Ever Written” I have a theory about the end of Mass Effect 3. Not a serious theory, mind you. A crazy theory, the kind even I don’t take seriously,…

Final Fantasy‘s Lightning Doesn’t Like Sand. It’s Coarse and Rough and Irritating.

Also there are sand dragon things, which are not soft and smooth. The latest batch of screenshots for Final Fantasy XIII Sequel Two: I Guess You Guys Wanted to Play as Lightning shows off the Dead Dunes, a land of dunes and deadness in the world of Nova Chrysalia. Sand is pretty great. It’s easy…

Square Enix has registered a trademark in Japan for “Fantasy Village”. A life simulator? Dunno! [Siliconera]

Rumor: Final Fantasy X HD Comes With Final Fantasy X-2 HD on the PS3

According to what looks like a Jump Magazine leak (below), the HD remaster of Final Fantasy X is coming to the PlayStation with a Final Fantasy X-2 remaster on the same disc. Both the Final Fantasy X and X-2 HD versions are also supposedly packed with the “international version” content. Originally, that consisted of bonus…

Final Fantasy V on Smartphones? Nineteen Bucks in Japan.

As first revealed last December, Square Enix is bringing Final Fantasy V and “other games” to iOS. A leaked Japanese magazine scan shows how much Japanese gamers can expect to pay for this: Final Fantasy V, which is listed for iOS and Android, is priced at ¥1,800 or close to US$19. That’s a lot! But,…

Let’s Look at the PS2 and PS3 Versions of Kingdom Hearts Side-by-Side

HD versions of classic PlayStation 2 titles are all the rage these days, with everything from Resident Evil 4 to Shadow of the Colossus getting a new coat of paint. The newest in the long line of HD remasters is Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix—which includes Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix, Kingdom Hearts: Re:Chain of Memories…

Final Fantasy Versus XIII Turned into FFXV by a Fashion Label’s Mistake

Ah, the world of fashion! The clothes. The models. The typos? According to Japanese clothing brand Roen, that’s exactly what caused a recent kerfuffle. Back in 2008, Roen announced that it would be making Final Fantasy Versus XIII threads like the game’s protagonists wear. Recently, however, something peculiar was spotted while surfing Roen’s website. On…

Turn-Based Combat Is The Best Kind Of Combat

Editor’s Note: I’m on vacation today, but since I know you’re all craving your regular dose of JRPG goodness, I’ve enlisted the wonderful Kirk Hamilton to jazz up Random Encounters this week. Be nice! —Jason Schreier Oh boy, here we go. If I’m gonna take over Jason’s column for a week, that means I’m gonna…

Square Enix experimented with Final Fantasy Type-0 running on an HDTV. No plans for a release, though! [NovaCrystallis]

This Huge Final Fantasy Airship Case Mod Really Explores the Space

Building this replica of a Final Fantasy airship woudn’t be an easy task, even if it wasn’t meant to be a PC case mod. What do you do with all of that space? Well, Richard “8-Bit Builder” Clinton somehow found room for two GTX 660 graphics cards inside and even play around with the case…

I Sold My Video Games To Pay For My Wedding, And Said Goodbye To Part Of Myself

Stacks of games sit around my living room, as I organize photographs from my phone. I log onto Ebay and check prices. I list a few games. I sell one almost immediately. That one doesn’t surprise me. Tales of Symphonia. It’s one of the rarer in my collection, and I had expected to make quite…

Cloud from Final Fantasy VII Sure Looks Pretty with Makeup

Cloud Strife is one good looking video game character. He really is. Dude’s got spiky hair, piercing eyes, and nice threads. But what if he wore cosmetics? What would he look like? On Twitter, a FFVII diehard answered that question by applying makeup to the swordsman’s face, noting that the character looked very feminine. Male…

Something’s Starting Up with Final Fantasy XI

How mysterious! A tweet from the official Final Fantasy XI account read, “The heck is this… Is something starting up…?!” Included was the above image. Back in 2011, former Final Fantasy XI Hiromichi Tanaka mentioned that Square Enix was considering a straight port of FFXI to the PS Vita. But at that time, it was…

Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals is a Lot Worse Than I Remember

Anime and games are intimately tied together in Japan: popular games tend to get anime adaptations and popular anime tend to get game adaptations. Thus, over the years there have been a myriad of game-inspired anime—some good, others borderline unwatchable. I saw my first game-inspired anime right at the dawn of my anime watching career.…

How I Fell in Love With JRPGS

Almost as far back as I can remember, I’ve been a gamer. At the age of four, my family got an original Nintendo with the Super Mario Bros., Duck Hunt, and the World Class Track Meet combo game—light gun and power pad included. Until I was in middle school, that Nintendo (and the aging Atari…

Is Final Fantasy XIV Coming to the PS4? Somebody Asked That Question.

Final Fantasy XIV‘s road to the PS3 has been rough. But now that the game is finally coming to the PlayStation 3, Square Enix’s Yoichi Wada was asked whether or not the game is headed to the PS4. “Basically,” said Wada, “I want to offer it through any means possible, but only after we’ve nailed…

Learn How To Make Swords, Guns, and Other Weapons from Japanese Video Games

Usually, when there’s a geek event in Japan, cosplayers show up in droves. Somewhere between the folks in skimpy outfits, there are always cosplayers carrying enormous swords and guns. They’re not real weapons, of course, but they can really help complete the cosplay. Want to learn how to make those awesome custom weapons? Like, yourself?…

So… No Final Fantasy Versus XIII, Huh

There was speculation that Final Fantasy Versus XIII would appear at Sony’s PS4 reveal. Shinji Hashimoto, Versus‘ producer, arrived on stage. Surely, this was the moment. But it wasn’t. It wasn’t at all. Hashimoto, who is also the Final Fantasy brand manager, announced that Square Enix was making a new Final Fantasy. Square Enix, which…