Final Fantasy VII PREQUEL announced
Square-Enix has announced a prequel to their blockbuster hit, Final Fantasy VII, named Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII. Unlike Advent Children, which is a movie, this is an actual game with battles and action and everything you'd expect from an RPG. What you wouldn't expect is the platform of the game -- Square-Enix has decided that the cell phone market is good enough to release the game there. This raises questions about the ability to bring Before Crisis to the United States, because as anyone who has been to Japan can attest, the cell phone technology in Japan is much more advanced than what is available stateside.
Personally, I think that it's a good idea for Squenix to do the prequel, because it will sell. I think it's a horrible idea to release the game on cellphones. I don't know if their plan is to goad people into buying their cellphone technology or what, but I certainly wouldn't buy a phone just to play a game. This should be a big thing to discuss -- please do it here!
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| GamblingCat | Comment 1: 2004-05-11 21:00 |
| They should put it on the PS2, but a prequel for FFVII is cool, but why does FFVII get all of this special treatment. | |
| The Ancient | Comment 2: 2004-05-11 21:06 |
| Sounds horrible. I'd like to comment more right now, but I feel somewhat neaseated. I dare someone to argue with me about whether or not Square is going downhill. | |
| Figaro | Comment 3: 2004-05-11 21:21 |
| Producing games like FFVII, which should be produced for Playstation or other such 3D system, producing games like this on cellphones is a horrible mistake. If it is only released for cell phones, then yes, I agree that SquareEnix is going downhill. | |
| Del S | Comment 4: 2004-05-11 22:09 |
| News: good Format: Strike Three. Get the Tridents Clearly, the brains of Squenix were sold when the Enix lads and ladies move din to make space for extra coffee machines. First the travesty of an online game in the sereis, then a Sequel, then a sequle thats a movie, now this. If people did this kinda thing to a human, it'd be GBH. But since its just murdering a game series, no one cares... Edit Oh yeah: i have not had a Mobile for 4 years, i'll be damned if this makes me buy one. | |
| William | Comment 5: 2004-05-12 00:16 |
| This is a terrible idea to have it on a cellphone. I don't think it will sell all that great to be honest. They should go ahead and release it on PS2 or something. People who don't have cellphones don't want to go out and buy a cellphone just to play a FF game. You know how some FF gamers are...they have to play all the FF games... | |
| Amer1can_Jesus | Comment 6: 2004-05-12 01:54 |
First of all...AWESOME FF7 Prequel  ...ok, happyness over  Ok, Grrr...First of all, WHAT THE FF IS GOING ON HERE!!!.....Cellphones? No..No..NO..NOoo...NO...NO!!! ::bangs head on table:: NO...NO...no...No.nnoOOOOOOO!Ok, Fetal position over... What a horrable idea to put it on Cellphones...I mean, Look at the N-gauge, it sold like a Black Sabbath album at a Church Banquet. And Look at cell phones, They are used for TALKING!!!!!...not Games, I can't stress that enough..but as a FF fan...I shall purchase it...hopefully, the people at Squenix can get the Gunk out of their brains from too much FFXI....to make it for a diffrent console. | |
| tenshi/akuma | Comment 7: 2004-05-12 02:47 |
| I'm starting to wonder if Squenix realizes that there's more than one FF. Does Tetsuya Nomura have naughty pictures of all the higher-ups there? Also, the whole cell phone idea is kinda weird. Maybe someone will create an emulator... | |
| Figaro | Comment 8: 2004-05-12 03:04 |
| Wait wait, maybe there's more to this than meets the eye. Maybe Squenix is releasing the FFVII prequel for cell phones but that does not exclude the possibility that the cell phone game will just be a cut-down version of a PS2 game. I just read the article again, and it says, I quote: Quote (RPGamer) The biggest surprise about the game is probably that it is being developed by Square Enix's Mobile sub-division for use on cellphones. It says "for use on cell phones", but it doesn't say anything about it not being released on a real console. Just thought I'd shed my views on it. Maybe I'm wrong, but even in Square's present shape, I don't think they're so idiotic they'd produce a prequel to one of their most popular games on cell phones. In any case, though, producing a game for a cell hpone is a bad idea. Unless it's Tetris or Q-Bert. OK, I'm done now. | |
| FallingHeart | Comment 9: 2004-05-12 03:48 |
| Yay! I love the optimism Figaro, props. Let's HOPE that's the case, considering it doesn't say for sure. Anyway, there is the possibility they may rerelease it in the US for the playstation paired with Tactics Advance for more money (If you don't have a cellphone or a gba), like antholagy & origins. Anyway, if it's gonna be on cell phones, i'm assuming it's 2d, which is wierd. Don't get me wrong I LOVE 2D games, but a 2d partner to a 3d game is just wierd (And vice versa.) | |
| Tiddles | Comment 10: 2004-05-12 08:55 |
| If it's being developed by the "Mobile sub-division", you have to assume that that's its primary target, otherwise they'd just be converting it at some point later. It's really stupid. The only announced Square Enix project I've actually been interested in, and then they make the target platform mobile freakin' phones. Bizarre. Or... I don't know. Did anyone even know Squenix HAD a "Mobile sub-division"? It's been stated before, if I'm not mistaken, that the main team don't have the resources to be making prequels/sequels unless it's something where they can reuse substantial amounts of the original work over again (10-2). Perhaps it was deemed that the only way something like this would get made would be to pass it off onto some small division. And hey: for all you guys who say there's more opportunity to concentrate on plot and gameplay in 2D games, maybe we'll get to see that here, which wouldn't be a bad thing. Or not, since none of us have anything to play it on. Ah well. Someone will probably make an emulator. | |
| Djibriel | Comment 11: 2004-05-12 09:47 |
| It's a smart idea from their point of view, no doubt. Because there will be people who be persuaded to spent those extra amounts of cash on a cellphone high-tech enough to play the game. Not to mention hardcore-FF fans who'll buy the phone just because of the prequel. On the other hand, this is an example of monopoly abuse if I ever saw one. It's like Internet Explorer...I know it's crappy and all, but I use it since it's included in Microsoft programming and that's , plain and simple, the stuff you work with unless you want to dive head-first into more expensive, more complicated and lesser known systems. Furthermore, I'd rahter have seen a FF VI preqeul...but I've never bothered with the VII game at all, and the few things I've seen/heard about it have led me to believe that VII was a mistake that was later corrected with VIII. | |
| FraudulentTommah | Comment 12: 2004-05-12 11:37 |
| That's the most bizarre idea I've ever heard. | |
| SSJ_Cloud | Comment 13: 2004-05-12 14:35 |
Quote (Tiddles @ 12th May 2004 03:55) Or... I don't know. Did anyone even know Squenix HAD a "Mobile sub-division"? There is out (or maybe they are still making them) cell phone versions of FF1 and DQ/DW1. I'd imagine the Mobile Gaming Unit handled these titles. Even though they discussed it at E3, who knows if Square Enix will even release this game in the US. The cell phone market is much mre standardized in Japan. | |
| edge murasame | Comment 14: 2004-05-12 18:15 |
I read this and became very happy. But then I read that it was going to be only on cell phones  . Curse you SquareEnix, CURSE YOU!!!I doubt it will come to the States mainly because it's going to be a cell phone game. I wouldn't buy it even if it did come, just because of the fact that it's only on the cell phone. Here some more info and pics... http://www.gamesarefun.com/news.php?newsid=884 | |
| l)arkShadow | Comment 15: 2004-05-12 22:01 |
| FINAL FANTASY.... IN .... CELL PHONE>SS>SS>>!~>!>!>>!>~>!>>!!>>!!?!?!??>!?!? I CANNOT BELEIVE IT!!!! WHAT A HORRIBLE IDEA!!!! THEY SHOULD FREWAKIN PUT IT ON PS2!!!!!! NOT CELLPHONES!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Sware is sorta going on a downwardhill (goes on his bed and starts to cry) | |
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