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Final Fantasy Concerts Remaining in 2023
- Los Angeles, August 13, 2023
- Cleveland, Ohio, September 9
- São Paulo, September 28
- Rio de Janeiro, October 1
- Austin, Texas, November 10
- Montreal, December 3
- Seattle, January 20, 2024
- Charlotte, North Carolina, February 3
- Washington, DC, March 2
- Hartford, Connecticut, March 23
- San Francisco, May 31 and June 1
- Boston, September 29
- Cincinnati, October 1
- San Diego, December 8
Source: Final Fantasy: Distant Worlds, A New World: Intimate Music from Final Fantasy
Posted in: North America
New Dump of Final Fantasy XVI Visuals and Info
Without going too terribly much into those spoilers myself, I can say that the videos show off a lot of combat in various modes, including solo and party combat in both normal encounters, boss encounters, and an Eikon battle. The boss-level encounters showed off a number of quick-time events within battle, certainly more than I expected. Personally, I felt vibes of both Final Fantasy XIII and XV in the combat sequences.
There are some pieces that show where the devs are working towards that M-rating with the ESRB, as well; I caught a bit more bloody violence than we're used to in a Final Fantasy game during the Eikon battle, and I'm pretty sure I caught an f-bomb in one of the boss battles, though I admit I watched the videos at 1.5x speed due to a general lack of time this morning.
Gematsu also published a transcript of a roundtable with the executive team for Final Fantasy XVI, conducted earlier in February in conjunction with RPG Fan and Den of Geek. The interview touches a lot on bringing the "constant" elements of a Final Fantasy game into this new version that steps further into the action genre than any Final Fantasy before it. The entire interview is quite long and covers a number of other topics, too, including the design of boss and Eikon battles to mash-up genres and some questions about how the game looks pretty grimdark overall so far.
The media tour continues, too - Square Enix announced today that there will be another panel discussion about XVI at PAX East at the end of March (there will be a panel for XIV there, too). Final Fantasy XVI is still scheduled for a June 2023 release.
Source: Gematsu, Square Enix on Facebook
Posted in: North America
New Final Fantasy Piano Concert Series in March
- San Francisco, March 3
- Los Angeles, March 4
- Las Vegas, March 5
- Phoenix, March 6
- Dallas, March 8
- Houston, March 9
- Miami, March 11
- Tampa, March 12
- Atlanta, March 13
- Washington, D.C., March 14
- Philadelphia, March 15
- New York, March 17
- Boston, March 18
- Montreal, March 19
- Toronto, March 20
- Detroit, March 21
- Chicago, March 22
- Cincinatti, March 24
- Kansas City, March 25
- Minneapolis, March 26
- Denver, March 27
- Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 30/31
Tickets for all shows are already on sale; here's a trailer for the concert series that the promoter published recently as well.
Source: Crystalline Resonance Site
Posted in: North America
Triangle Strategy Releases on Steam October 13
Unfortunately, I'm not seeing any demo version listed on Steam just yet. I have to admit that until I was able to play the first three chapters in the Switch demo, I hadn't been fully sold on the game, so I wish that it would be available to PC players as well to try out. As it stands, though, I personally think this is the best game Square Enix have released in years, and I'm personally on my fifth playthrough of it currently. So all in all, I'm thrilled that it's likely to find a larger audience with this upcoming PC release.
Source: Triangle Strategy on Steam
Posted in: North America
Square Enix Show Big at First 2022 Nintendo Direct
Chocobo GP is releasing just after Triangle Strategy, on March 10, and Nintendo opened preorders as part of Nintendo Direct. Nintendo talked a little bit about the first "season" of the game, describing the multiplayer rewards that players can earn by competing in the game's featured 64-player bracketed tournaments. The description is a little hard for me to follow, but it looks like you can start with the Lite version of the game and still collect rewards, and also can pay real money for additional rewards opportunities. That part doesn't sound as great.
There were rumors of a Chrono Cross remaster pretty recently, and this Direct made it official, with a release of Chrono Cross coming to Switch on April 7. It looks to track somewhat to some other remasters, with Final Fantasy IX coming immediately to mind for me, as the new version will have some enhanced graphics (but not all) and enhanced music, and some built-in trainers for users who would like a boost through the game. The "Radical Dreamers" text-based adventure will also be included, in its first official release outside of Japan.
Additionally, the first two Front Mission games are coming to Switch in the near future; the first will release sometime this summer, while the second has no release window as yet. The first game wasn't released in the United States until a Nintendo DS version, and the second has never come to the West officially until now. And speaking of, now for the first time, LIVE A LIVE will also be exiting Japan, releasing worldwide for Switch on July 22. And, finally, if you haven't ended up with Kingdom Hearts yet, the online-required Cloud version of Kingdom Hearts: Integrum Masterpiece also released during Nintendo Direct, offering all the games in a single purchase streamed online.
And as one final aside, the delayed release of Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster got its new release date: it will now be out on February 23. Thanks to Folklore for that reminder!
Source: Gematsu, IGN
Posted in: North America
ICYMI: Square Enix at The Game Awards
The biggest and most immediate news we already suspected: a release of Final Fantasy VII Remake for PC. That was confirmed last night, and not only that, it was confirmed for next week and also confirmed to include Intergrade. Unlike the PlayStation 5 release that pretty much nobody has gotten to play because nobody has a PS5, this one will not be able to be upgraded from a previous PS4 purchase. That said, the PC version will still play at up to 4k with a good enough rig, and the specs to play at 1080 seem quite reasonable aside from perhaps the 100GB space requirement! The game will be available on the Epic Games Store only, at least for now.
Forspoken, the game long known as Project Athia, also got a new trailer last night and, I believe, the first specific announced release date: May 24, 2022. The game will be released only for PlayStation 5 and Windows. The new trailer is below for your enjoyment.
On top of that, if you are interested in the awards themselves, Square Enix as a developer and publisher won five. Two were for Final Fantasy XIV, and one each for Life Is Strange: True Colors, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Nier: Replicant.
Source: Square Enix Blog, Wikipedia
Posted in: North America
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All fanfiction and fanart (including original artwork in forum avatars) is property of the original authors. Some graphics property of Square Enix.