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Final Fantasy Resonance announced (Releases October 22, 2026)
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jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Not sure why people are struggling with this concept. They had a game that was live for 10 years where they created a ton of sprites, artwork, characters, locations, scenario writing etc. and it's since been shut down. They wanted to make a "budget" pixel art Final Fantasy game, so they decided to simply retool their existing assets and make a new game out of it. Just re-using the art and story from a mobile game like this doesn't automatically make the end product a mobile game.
How much work they ACTUALLY put into this game remains to be seen, but at the very least it looks like they added a bunch of stuff (including an all new battle system) that wasn't in Brave Exvious. I imagine it'll be similar to Octopath 0, where those of us that played the mobile game will know right away this has the same characters and some story beats, but it'll be its own thing. I knew it was based on Exvious from the moment the trailer dropped.
German Shocks
GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief and Nosiest Dildo Archeologist
So, they're slashing development costs by reusing existing assets and slapping Final Fantasy on the label?
Based Square Enix.
Based Square Enix.
ForAcademicPurposes
Gold Member
Radiant Historia vibes.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Asha's balls in my throat?
Hopefully Square releases a demo for this.
kiphalfton
Member
Always surprising people think the octopath traveler art style looks good.
Efren is G.O.A.T.
Member
Is the story in Brave Exvius any good?
Wilhelm_85
Gold Member
Really? For me, it's basically the only high-res "2D" art style that looks good (except for insane works of art like Cuphead). Almost every high-res 2D game looks extremely cheap to me.
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TheDarkPhantom
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Day 1, Final Fantasy for life 
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
This looked crazy good, and I liked how dark aspects of the game appeared to be. Hopefully it's got some genuine ambition behind it… more than the usual World of FF spin off.
XesqueVara
Member
Day one
Played a ton of FF Brave Exvius was Sad when it ended past year.
Played a ton of FF Brave Exvius was Sad when it ended past year.
DownLikeBCPowder
Member
Man I was kind of excited for this before I knew it was a mobile port and thought it was an original game. That sucks.
MazingerDUDE
Member
HD-2D = garbage
And no, games in SNES and Genesis era didn't look like that with super blocky pixels.
This looks absolutely disgusting.
And no, games in SNES and Genesis era didn't look like that with super blocky pixels.
This looks absolutely disgusting.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Asha's balls in my throat?
cartman414
Member
In b4 paid Fina costumes.
Liopleurodon
Member
This art screams Final Fantasy, IMO.
Pataponpon
Member
Looks amazing, people who bitch and moan about wanting a turn based FF game better support this one
fallingdove
Member
I think that's what square is hoping for. There are enough people in here glazing this game that their strategy seems to be working.
linko9
Member
I just don't understand why they put in all the resources needed for a brand new game, but put it towards a mobile game rerigging. Looks great visually, hope it turns out good, but there's just no avoiding that this is a "museum-type" game like World of FF. Why not take the approach of 4 Heroes of Light? Cautiously excited for this, but not getting my hopes up too much.
DarkShadowXI
Gold Member
Octopath 0 was a mobile game and the full release was excellent.
Hopefully this also means we'll see more remakes or new games with this engine now that the seal is broken.
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It's basically the same motiff as the FFVI art.
Dude, how can you guys don't get it. It is not an port. You people are so dense.
Pataponpon
Member
Why do you think it sucks? It seems this is a full blown remake with a lot of work in order to turn the usual gacha crap into an actual rpg!
DarkShadowXI
Gold Member
They did the exact same thing with Octopath Traveler 0 and they did a fantastic job with it.
I was hesitant with it and ended up loving the game.
Pataponpon
Member
Yeah, those projects are super cool, I hope we get the same treatment for Nier Reincarnation, the story was so cool despite the poor gameplay
Some people just chooses to be dumb, dude. They make sure to get superficial information about it just to get angry or attack something.
Buggy Loop
Gold Member
So disappointing that its based on Brave Exvius
German Shocks
GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief and Nosiest Dildo Archeologist
Hawk The Slayer
Member
I don't hate it but never liked it that much which was why I never bother with games like Octopath and others like it.
I must prefer the enhanced sprite style like The Minish Cap and FFIV PsP remaster.
fallingdove
Member
Nope. Love pixel turn based jrpgs. Hate Brave Exvius. It's absolutely soul less. Throwing 3D backgrounds into the mix means nothing.
riko
Member
How about Vanillaware games?
I am not a huge HD-2D fan, despite being a 2D/pixel-art die hard. I find the over the top depth of field too much, and we're a handful of these games deep now and they look way too samey vs the SNES hay day of Square RPGs where games had really distinct looks.
Hell, I think the PSX/PS2 era 2D games were kinda peak for pixel art. Vanillaware keeps the 2D dream alive though.
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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
Looks amazing
I'm in
I'm in
uncreativename
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Not really related but this got me looking up about the really really old, pre-iPhone Japan-only mobile game FF7 Before Crisis, in which you play as members of The Turks. Apparently fans made an unofficial remake that you can get here https://richterwilker.itch.io/before-crisis-remake
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German Shocks
GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief and Nosiest Dildo Archeologist
Seriously, thanks for the link!
I had no idea this even existed.
Downloading ASAP..
Sooner
Member
I agree.
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uncreativename
Gold Member
I hope it runs lol, I didn't actually check. Gonna download it quick anf report backSeriously, thanks for the link!
I had no idea this even existed.
Downloading ASAP..
That's what an limited person usually says, yes.
Nomura wanted an remake of it for the 3DS. Sadly it never happened.
uncreativename
Gold Member
German Shocks
Ok, I fired up the exe near the bottom of the directory, and well, I have no idea what I'm doing and I died pretty much instantly haha, but it runs and I love the atmosphere.I wonder if there's a readme with the controls in here somewhere...
I scrolled down far enough on the itch page and I found this.
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Northeastmonk
Gold Member
Base switch it is! I love those pixel remastered versions on Switch. I'll take a FF like this over a giant sized Titan or Ifrit any day of the week.
uncreativename
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TheLikou
apparently it was actually Hajime Tabata, who no longer works at Square Enix https://www.siliconera.com/hajime-t...re-crisis-final-fantasy-vii-for-nintendo-3ds/