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During this morning's Nintendo Direct, Square Enix announced a new HD-2D turn-based RPG being released on October 22nd, 2026. Titled Final Fantasy Resonance it's a remake - not a port - of Season 1 of the retired mobile game Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. The game will incorporate battle upgrades and other story content from later in Brave Exvius' lifespan.

For those who never played the mobile game: the premise is that Rain and Lasswell, who are Knights from Grandshelt, have been granted the power of Visions, which allows them to summon characters from across the Final Fantasy franchise to fight at their sides. These Visions level up independently of the main characters. Unlike Brave Exvius, though, where Visions could be used in place of the main characters, screenshots from Final Fantasy Resonance show the Visions alongside the main characters. In one such screenshot, we see Rain summoned Charlotte (FFBE), Lid summoned Aileen (FFBE), Fina summoned Shantotto (FFXI) and Jake summoned Firion (FFII).

Along with those mentioned above, the following Visions have been confirmed thus far:

• The Warrior of Light, Final Fantasy I
• Terra, Final Fantasy VI
• Cloud, Final Fantasy VII
• Zidane, Final Fantasy IX
• Shantotto, Final Fantasy XI
• Y'shtola, Final Fantasy XIV

The game will be coming to PlayStation, Xbox, PC, and Nintendo Switch 1 and 2.It'll be interesting to see if future seasons of Brave Exvius will be released as sequels to Final Fantasy Resonance, as the mobile game featured four seasons and numerous story events.

Source: IGN

My social media feeds have shown me this trailer several times, but I didn't notice it was based on Brave Exvius [though I only momentarily thought that this was SE doing Fire Emblem Engage's Emblem Rings mechanic]. Still, it looks like fun, and while I don't think I'm ready to purchase it myself, I'm gonna lobby our local library to get it.

Edit: I'm only a little bit worried that this game represents a foolish attempt to feed on its audience's gaming nostalgia that might poison itself [the way so-called AI trained on itself does].

I'll riot if they don't let me summon Agrias though.

This post has been edited by Kane on 10th June 2026 06:32