Just When You Thought it was Safe

Posted on Thursday 28th October 2004 at 00:34 by Elena99

It appears that Square Enix's love affair with FFVII spin-offs is not yet over. Courtesy of RPGamer, the latest FFVII spin off is to be called Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII. Aside from this, there are three other known spinoffs; Advent Children, Before Crisis, and Dirge of Cerberus.

This title will be released in 2006, and is said to be an action RPG, unlike the original FFVII. The character designer will be Tetsuya Nomura, and Yoshinori Kitase and Hajime Tahata will also be involved with the project. There is also a website already set up for this game, which will be made for Sony's handheld PlayStation Portable.

Further information can be found at RPGamer.com

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Another spin-off. I'm not really sure what to say, I'd like to see more information on this. An action RPG might be interesting. Unfortunately, there's no time period so far.

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Comments

Dark Paladin	Comment 1: 2004-10-28 00:44
	Dear. God. No. I can understand all these spin-offs, but do they need to do them all at once?
SilverFork	Comment 2: 2004-10-28 00:59
	Way to go, Square. You've managed to get my eyes stuck backwards in their sockets due to their record-speed rolling. MOVE ON TO ANOTHER GAME ALREADY!! Or better yet, use all that time and money to focus on something more, oh I dunno, original. I think we've broken the bounds of ridiculousness here.
Rujuken	Comment 3: 2004-10-28 01:05
	Yeah, it would be nice if they spread the release dates out a little. But what I really want is to actually be able to play some of them. I dislike the idea of making these games for handhelds, and this just means I'm gonna miss out on another FFVII game.
Tidu-who	Comment 4: 2004-10-28 04:23
	You said it Rujuken. All these handheld spinoffs are ridiculous! I mean wow, why all at once? Just adds to $quare's rep.
eternalsphere	Comment 5: 2004-10-28 05:04
	ANOTHER one? Why can't Square Enix wait and see if their current spinoffs will be successful first and then make another? They could be using the money to make their current projects better. With all these spinoffs, I wonder if any of these spinoffs and even FFXII will be worth my time. The more I hear about these spinoffs the more I lose faith in Square Enix and their games. I just hope that one day they'll wake up, realize what they're doing, and give us something FRESH and PLAYABLE. Tidu-who, the way you wrote $quare describes them perfectly .
Neal	Comment 6: 2004-10-28 05:05
	Make it stop, make it stooooooop. Seriously. With each one I just get angrier and angrier.
Shotgunnova	Comment 7: 2004-10-28 06:51
	Square-Enix needs to quit using FF7 as their cash cow, at expense of any integrity they have left. With FFX-2, they showed that a sequel can be sort of pulled off, but doing three spin-off games is sheer desecration.
sharkerbob	Comment 8: 2004-10-28 09:26
	Final Fantasy just isn't Final any more. I sense the series is going to choke on its own vomit. I never cared much for FFVII in the first place, mainly cuz its such a cash cow production, and they new it; a movie I can deal with, but this is getting out of hand. I suppose it would be interesting to have a series of games with each one based around a seperate character, similar to Mortal Kombat Mythologies (a good idea which didn't last more than one installment). But why keep milking FFVII? What about the SNES games? Plenty of unanswered questions and untold stories in those. FFVIII had so many plot holes they could easily patch up with sequels that better explored the world and/or pasts of the characters. I mean, they did make an FFX sequel. Then again, FFX-2 was just plain ridiculous. Still, it was fine for the kind of game it was designed to be. Personally, if they were gunna expand more on one of their series, I'd like to see some more Mana games, preferably something with the quality of Seiken Densetsu 3. Sword of Mana doesn't really count, as it was remake of the first (and an aweful one, in my opnion). Hell, what about Dewprism/Threads of Fate? They actually left that off with a cliffhanger! Why not continue that story?
Mimic	Comment 9: 2004-10-28 10:06
	When I heard about Advent Children, I thought 'Great!' Then Before Crisis, I thought 'Could be interesting. Dirge of Cerberus - 'Another... er... well, maybe it'll be good.' Then this. I've stopped caring about FFVII now. I agree with the above - this is going to lead to a sub-par game that'll drag FFVII and perhaps the series with it. Now, I'm just looking forward to XII and keeping busy with XI. Square needs to do something original, like everyone else has said. Something involving Vagrant Story, perhaps. Final Fantasy is great and all, but Square don't sell games purely because they have FF(VII) in the name, the games sell if they are good RPGs.
Tiddles	Comment 10: 2004-10-28 11:17
	I agree that it would've been smart to wait for some feedback before spamming off another round of sequels, but as much as Square is prejudging them as guaranteed liquid gold, we're all kind of guilty of doing just the opposite. Maybe they really have found enough room in the FF7 world to make all these spinoffs interesting. It seems unlikely, but we just don't know yet. Bethesda has produced a very successful series set in the same world in the Elder Scrolls series, for instance, and they don't tend to get complaints that their games are derivative, largely because they're not. But then, there usually is just a slightly longer development time on those... I'd normally say that it's complete lunacy to be prejudging the games at all with so little gameplay information, but nobody plays FF for the gameplay. (Except for Tactics players and some of the devotees of the older games.) This apparent shift away from original worlds and storylines was going on even before the FF7 sequelitis, though, remember -- TA was obviously based on Tactics, and we're told that FF12 takes place in Ivalice, though exactly how much similarity this Ivalice has with FFT's world I haven't yet heard. Here's a thought: when did Sakaguchi leave? Could this be the result? I'm really trying to reserve judgement on these FF7 spinoffs, but I must admit, it's hard not to see it as just milking a cash cow, as tends to be the general opinion now.
LeviBryant	Comment 11: 2004-10-28 16:34
	Hinorobu Sakaguchi. I hope I got that right. The games haven't been the same since he left. See FFXI for reference. I actually thought FFVII and FFVIII weren't that bad. And just to make everyone happy, I'm going to rank the ones I have played: FFIV/FFX FFVIII/FFVI FFIX FFX-2 FFV/FF1/FF2 And that's the way it is. Hopefully 12 will make up for those last two jokes of a game.
Kane	Comment 12: 2004-10-28 16:42
	"I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Mugatu, in Zoolander I don't want anymore FF7 games, I think maybe they should just focus on FFXII and make it good.
LeviBryant	Comment 13: 2004-10-28 16:45
	Why were they doing spin-offs to begin with? If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Damn greedy SOBs.
Rujuken	Comment 14: 2004-10-28 17:51
	The reason they are making spinoffs is BECAUSE it isn't broke. Square thinks FFVII is good enough to expand upon. Or at least its worth the effort money wise. And Personally I agree with Sqaure about FFVII's ability to be expaned upon. I agree with Tiddles about reserving judgement. But I'm a little wary that they might start ruining FFVII by doing this. I don't think there is a great chance of that happening though. If the worst happens there is always the original game and you can't touch that.
Silverlance	Comment 15: 2004-10-28 23:02
	"So Gary, I heard people are really eating up this FFX-2 thing." "Ayup." "And what's this other thing you were working on, Advent Kiddies or something? Brilliant idea, people seem to love the idea." "Children. Yeah. I figured, we went TOTALLY wrong with the Final Fantasy movie and had to fill for bankruptcy. So it was only natural that it'd work the second time around." "Awesome idea, awesome. Just brilliant. Hey, listen, me an' the boys down in the R&D department had this sweet idea." "Really? What about?" "Y'know how we still have a good part of the market rubbing their nipples while chanting FF7'S name even years after its release? Particularly with that Advent Children thing of yours?" "Oh! Oh! I know! You plan on making-" "A sequel! Genius, huh?" "Hey, yeah, we could-" "It's gonna be about Vincent! Oh! OH! And we have this kick-ass sweet idea!" "Tom-" "We'll make AN OTHER sequel, only it'll be a prequel and it'll feature the Turks! And it'll be on cell phones!" "Tom, I-" "And get this, me an' the boys were talking, right? And we thought, hell, FFX-2 worked and people seem to really be looking forward to Advent Children. Final Fantasy VII is the wet dream of your average RPG fan, right?" "Listen, Tom-" "So get this. We're going to make... an OTHER spinoff! :D" "Tom, listen, we-" "Genius, huh? Hey, why don't you drop by the R&D department after lunch, we can discuss our lineup of Jenova vibrators." Please stop, Squaresoft. Please. :_:
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