Final Fantasy IX Coming to Windows and Mobile: Not a Remake
This release of IX differs from that of VII, though, given that there is an announcement at all; the Final Fantasy VII release on iOS came as a surprise, so there's no way to extrapolate any further details regarding a potential release window based on what we know now.
Source: Famitsu
Posted in: Square-Enix News, News from Japan
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| Pooka | Comment 1: 2015-12-31 21:33 |
| 1) Where's Final Fantasy VII for Android? 2) Where's Final Fantasy VIII for Android? 3) Square Enix, please make Final Fantasy IX hit Android please. I've been waiting ages for a certain game, please read point number 1. | |
| Rangers51 | Comment 2: 2015-12-31 22:26 |
Quote (Pooka @ 31st December 2015 17:33) 1) Where's Final Fantasy VII for Android? 2) Where's Final Fantasy VIII for Android? 3) Square Enix, please make Final Fantasy IX hit Android please. I've been waiting ages for a certain game, please read point number 1. IX is confirmed for Android. | |
| Pooka | Comment 3: 2015-12-31 23:57 |
Quote (Rangers51 @ 1st January 2016 00:26) Quote (Pooka @ 31st December 2015 17:33) 1) Where's Final Fantasy VII for Android? 2) Where's Final Fantasy VIII for Android? 3) Square Enix, please make Final Fantasy IX hit Android please. I've been waiting ages for a certain game, please read point number 1. IX is confirmed for Android. ...well, as much as how Final Fantasy VII is also confirmed for Android... I'm still waiting for a money-sucker to show up, even if it'll be the same game without improvements unlike VI and down the slope. | |
| Rangers51 | Comment 4: 2016-01-01 00:56 |
Quote (Pooka @ 31st December 2015 19:57) ...well, as much as how Final Fantasy VII is also confirmed for Android... I'm just going by what the official site says when I say it's confirmed for Android. I don't recall Squenix ever making such a pronouncement for VII, though I'm not an Android user so I admittedly didn't follow up on that. I did just search around for it and I see comments that they announced the game for Android at E3, but no source directly confirming that and I don't remember hearing it myself at the time. Anyway - I see it in writing at the link above. For what that's worth. | |
| Narratorway | Comment 5: 2016-01-01 01:31 |
 Side note: How old of an Android we talking here, cause I'm rocking what I have got to figure at this point is a relatively underpowered Galaxy Tab 3 | |
| Tiddles | Comment 6: 2016-01-01 13:06 |
| What's interesting about this is that 7 and 8 were based on the original PC ports, but no such thing was ever released for 9. So unless there's an existing, unreleased FF9 PC in the Squenix archives that never got released - which seems unlikely, as I don't recall it having been on the table at any point - they're going to have to do this as a fresh port from the PSX version, or stick it in an emulator. I'd normally assume they'd choose the laziest possible option, i.e. the second one, but they could always opt to make a revolting-looking port with all the charm, grace and student project-level polish of the FF5-FF6 mobile ports for extra irritation. Still, this an announcement I would be very happy to hear if I could send it back in time fifteen years. Regardless, please don't make this one a total mess-up. | |
| Pooka | Comment 7: 2016-01-01 23:34 |
Quote (Tiddles @ 1st January 2016 15:06) What's interesting about this is that 7 and 8 were based on the original PC ports, but no such thing was ever released for 9. So unless there's an existing, unreleased FF9 PC in the Squenix archives that never got released - which seems unlikely, as I don't recall it having been on the table at any point - they're going to have to do this as a fresh port from the PSX version, or stick it in an emulator. It'll probably be a PSX emulator. You see, FFVII and beyond is much bigger to reproduce than FFVI which is the most deep title in artwork and sprites and backgrounds and whatever in the SNES/NES land. Can't really think of anything else. Unless they will actually do a proper port a la FFVI. | |
| Glenn Magus Harvey | Comment 8: 2016-01-07 00:37 |
| FYI, Steam page for FFIX is up: http://store.steampowered.com/app/377840/ | |
| Tiddles | Comment 9: 2016-01-09 16:06 |
| Based on the screenshots and video, it looks like a genuine port rather than emulation. Granted, I haven't followed the scene much lately, but that would be a real cracker of an upscaling GPU implementation if so. The screenshots clearly show it has the same problem as FF7/FF8 did even in the nineties with the field backgrounds being in their original resolution, but the models being rendered much more sharply, leading to all the models standing out too much. This isn't a big problem on the map or in battle, just in the field, and it should surprise approximately nobody since they don't seem to have any of the original assets to rerender the backgrounds for these games. There are things you can do to sharpen up the backgrounds, but these require human artistic effort to pull off acceptably, so it's no surprise that hasn't happened - even the better of these ports has hardly looked like a labour of love. But it's not terrible, and it's better than some of the vomit-inducing "improvement" efforts. It looks fine in the brief gameplay bits in the video, though I would assume they wouldn't have picked obviously sucky looking scenes for the trailer, and I don't completely trust it given that the video is 16:9, but all the screenshots show 4:3 with borders. That also shouldn't be surprising, but the original aspect ratio being used is really a good thing considering none of the backgrounds will have been extended. It might have been possible to break out the battle and map scenes into widescreen, but the inconsistency would be jarring. I was a bit worried about this screenshot because I thought this little hippo guy at the top was having some priority issues, but the original looks like that too - I guess it's just one of those slightly Escherish moments you get in the PS1 FFs where it's not quite clear how the static background is meant to stack up in three dimensions. This screenshot does illustrate the contrasting sharpness issue pretty well though, if you're unfamiliar with it. It looks about as good as I might have anticipated, anyway, given that it's not labelled as HD or remastered or anything, and it's Squenix. Cautious thumbs up from me. | |
| Glenn Magus Harvey | Comment 10: 2016-01-11 04:56 |
| I haven't played FFIX, but I remember the contrast between the rendered characters and the pre-rendered cutscenes in FFVII on the PC version...and they were nowhere near this bad. | |
| Pooka | Comment 11: 2016-01-11 09:14 |
Quote (Glenn Magus Harvey @ 11th January 2016 06:56) I haven't played FFIX, but I remember the contrast between the rendered characters and the pre-rendered cutscenes in FFVII on the PC version...and they were nowhere near this bad. With the models in FFVII actually not being as good as FFIX's, the contrast wasn't that visible. But I dunno about FFVIII, even though I played it. In FFVIII, the characters for the first time in the series looked like actual humans on the field, and indeed. However I didn't think the contrast was that bad. Its probably because the models are simply rendered in a much better way than the rest of the art. They'll have to hold back on the rendering if they don't want more people complaining the styles are contrasting. But hey, if the game releases on Android, I probably won't notice it given my phone's small resolution (unless I decide to throw the game on my Gamepad 2 which will run it at 720p). What I hope is that they don't mess this one up and add DRM to the Android version. It doesn't make sense to use it anywhere, PC, console or phones, but its really the worst when used on phones. | |
| Spooniest | Comment 12: 2016-01-11 23:10 |
| This pleases me but I think I won't be able to play it till I get a new computer | |
| Pooka | Comment 13: 2016-01-11 23:45 |
| If its because your computer is weak, it wouldn't be for Final Fantasy IX. VII and VIII didn't bend any computers to their breaking points during their heydays. | |
| Spooniest | Comment 14: 2016-01-11 23:58 |
| You demonstrate your lack of two key facts: 1. The system requirements for ff9 are far greater than vii or viii on PC, and are in fact already out. 2. My computer is exceedingly old. You presume quite a bit... | |
| Pooka | Comment 15: 2016-01-12 04:10 |
| The requirement are already greater even with the same level of graphics? Oh my... What tricks have they this time for the higher requirements? | |
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