Final Fantasy: the announcement is too good to be true, beware of false rumors!
Games News Final Fantasy: the announcement is too good to be true, beware of false rumors!
On December 18, the original episode of the Final Fantasy franchise celebrated the thirty-fifth anniversary of its release. For its part, Japanese publisher Square Enix hasn’t held an event to mark the occasion, but it didn’t take long to believe the latest rumours. Even better, the schedule for this special meeting will contain big surprises. As is often the case, in cases like this, all of this should be taken with a grain of salt but deserves some attention!
Summary
- Final Fantasy XVI, FFVII Rebirth… It’s a big 2023 for Square Enix
- Major announcement for FF’s 35th anniversary: too good to be true?
Final Fantasy XVI, FFVII Rebirth… It’s a big 2023 for Square Enix
Arrival from Final Fantasy XVInew medium for games Pixel Remasteredproject Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis which is getting closer on mobile media, the sequel Final Fantasy VII Remake in winter 2023-24… The program around the Final Fantasy franchise is rather interesting for the coming months. However, Square Enix may not have revealed everything yet! Indeed, 2023 kicks off with that slightly ticklish hallway sound mentioned the development of remakes of very popular episodes player! At this time, we don’t know what the Japanese publisher is up to, but it’s a bit surprising to see that there hasn’t been a proper event for the franchise’s 35th anniversary!
Lately, Square Enix has gone all out on the PlayStation 5’s big summer hit, viz Final Fantasy XVIbut not thinking too much about the rest to close out 2022. Joke, publishers can hit hard at the start of the year becauseafter Yoshinori Kitase’s rousing words” major announcement unrelated to Final Fantasy VII in his happy new year message, the listing seen on the 4chan forums shows the potential for a big announcement for the special event which gives the feeling straight out of license fans wildest dreams.
Major announcement for FF’s 35th anniversary: too good to be true?
Will Square Enix be setting up a big event to celebrate Final Fantasy’s 35th anniversary, with a slight delay? According to 4chan, this could happen. However, it is better to be wary of this source, keeping in mind that sometimes one finds everything and anything while walking there. Still according to sources there might be a presentation next February 7thinterspersed by fourteen revelations both on pre-existing titles and on unexpected surprises. As such, Square Enix isn’t going to be doing any half measures for FF’s 35th anniversary since then all of this can last more than 1h20 !
In many announcements, we find the second part of the spin-off Final Fantasy WorldNew Final Fantasy Tactics – a possible remaster of the PSP War of the Lions remake –, third episode for Final Fantasy X… and the famous remake of Final Fantasy IX ! On paper, this all seems too good to be true. : coupled with the fact that the information comes from 4chan, this data must be taken with very large tweezers and, of course, to be double-checked against what we already know or old statements.
Take this with a pinch of salt but there are 4chan rumors floating around about FF’s 35th anniversary presentation on February 7th.
Announcements include: FFIX Remake, FFX-3, World of FF II and FF Tactics game.
Sounds like a fan’s dream more than anything. ? pic.twitter.com/Ke2NHZ95pi
—Andy (@AndSpaceY) January 15, 2023
As an example, Final Fantasy X-3 is cited and it is not surprising since Tetsuya Nomura, the famous editor in chief, has stated in 2021 that possible third installment not zero ». It remains to be determined whether we are getting any closer to this announcement or if those who posted this are smart people! As for the case of the Final Fantasy IX remake, it was also not mentioned incidentally because this track had been mentioned here and there in the news. In September 2021, the name of this episode appeared in Nvidia’s massive GeForce Now data leak. By itself, the track makes sense, but other, more serious sources are needed to rejoice fully : we’ve been waiting to find out if this special event will actually happen!
