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Mevius Final Fantasy (iOS/And) announced: Kitase/Nojima/Itahana, console level [INFO]
- Thread starter Exentryk
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My heart almost stopped beating when I saw Sakaguchi.
Why is he here too if he isn't a part of this? Why is SE trolling us so hard those days?
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Deleted member 20920
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The interview seems to be about FF's creator and his successor. So naturally they would have invited these two.
Poetic.Injustice
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That's one of the worst character designs I've seen recently.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
The Mavelous Mevius.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Gooch should get FFXVI.
Stone Ocean
Member
Wait, so it's like a retro-style Final Fantasy?
Why can't Square just release this shit as downloadable titles on traditional platforms alongside mobile...
Why can't Square just release this shit as downloadable titles on traditional platforms alongside mobile...
It's unclear. Seems there's some connection to FF1, but at the same time it's a brand new high quality traditional RPG by staff who have worked on numbered FF games. Kitase is leading the production.
Stone Ocean
Member
Ah, so those NES blurbs on the scan aren't screenshots of the new game?
DiipuSurotu
Banned
Oh look it's Layle from The Crystal Bearers
encephalon
Member
I'm willing to support substantial efforts on smartphones (especially something like a traditional Final Fantasy, which should work), but it's too bad that linking my US gmail account to my phone locked me out of the region I'm living and working in (Japan).
Earthpainting
Member
Interested to see some more information about this. They are throwing down some pretty big names to tie to a mobile game. Here's to hoping this is getting the time and attention it deserves internally.
It's a bit disconcerting that this is a thing, and that Square's mobile division doesn't have the best track record of addressing these issues in a timely manner.
Toriyama......I kid.
Some additional details from the Sakaguchi/Kitase interview in Famitsu has been released:
- There map movement in the game will be automated, but the gameplay systems will be like a traditional FF
- He doesn't want it to feel inferior to a numbered FF game
- There will be Abilities and Jobs
- For a smartphone game, there is an unprecedented number of internal S-E developers working on this
- Many of them have worked on numbered FF games previously
- They're aiming for a smartphone game which is comparable to a console game
- The theme is "Warriors of Light"
- There map movement in the game will be automated, but the gameplay systems will be like a traditional FF
- He doesn't want it to feel inferior to a numbered FF game
- There will be Abilities and Jobs
- For a smartphone game, there is an unprecedented number of internal S-E developers working on this
- Many of them have worked on numbered FF games previously
- They're aiming for a smartphone game which is comparable to a console game
- The theme is "Warriors of Light"
Red Mage
Member
So, you can't choose where you'll go, or is there no actual world map and you just click on where to go next?
Quite excited for this because the veterans on this and particularly Kitase producing with them. I wonder who else is on board.
I wonder if there will be a world map then or just an overworld where you select your destination. I like the talk of putting some considerable effort into the game.
I wonder if there will be a world map then or just an overworld where you select your destination. I like the talk of putting some considerable effort into the game.
Square Enix noted the following in their last fiscal call: http://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/ir/library/docs/141106/page05.html
They talked about doing this back in May 2013, but it seems we're finally starting to see the results get announced.
MagnaderAlpha
Member
I don't get this either. I've said this before, many indies do that type of thing all the time, making versions not only for PC and mobile, but consoles too. Reach out to all different types of platforms and the potential gamers on them. The more you provide easier access to different gamers, the likely you'll be noticed. You focus just on one, you turn your back on other potential buyers(who'd probably be just as eager to shell out the cash as that "one" target platform crowd. Indies, while it's no doubt hard work, still accomplish this(even Kickstarter funded indies), yet the big studios can't even "try". The closest Square came to this was putting The After Years on Wii eShop back in the day. That's it.
Crimson_Justice
Member
Interesting that they're trying to make this a substantial mobile game, but haven't we seen enough of the "Warriors of Light" idea lately? Well, Square has been pretty good at running things into the ground in recent gens, so I'm not surprised...
Stone Ocean
Member
Nice start
threelights
Member
automated map movement just sounds like you choose a destination instead of walking around the world map.
Anyway, I will probably never play this, but I want to see some screenshots.
I hope you're not one of those people that complain that FFXV looks too different from the older games in the series...
Anyway, I will probably never play this, but I want to see some screenshots.
I hope you're not one of those people that complain that FFXV looks too different from the older games in the series...
mickagau33
Member
Return to the roots? Again? And the theme is Warriors of Light?
Don't we have this already?
Plus, um, THIS?
Oh well, if people actually want it, well, ok go ahead.
My thought exactly. Also it is strange how they are using Yoshitaka Amano recently : for some less ambitious games (on mobile or FFexplorers) and not for a FF that is supposed to be about going back to the roots of the series ? Weird.
I actually think this is pretty good. Given these also seem to have a chance of coming over I hope, but it makes the mobile market more attractive for me at least in SE's case and it potentially sets them apart from the norm if they staff the talent on it.
We haven't seen the game logo design yet. Could be Amano.
When I saw Sakaguchi on that scan I thought for a moment that this a the FFVI-like project Uematsu talked about a while ago. 
This doesn't sound all too bad either, however. I just hope that map movement won't indeed be automated, because that sounds rather boring - it would be in line with the kind of mobile games that are popular in Japan, however. Battles and menu-based stuff.
This doesn't sound all too bad either, however. I just hope that map movement won't indeed be automated, because that sounds rather boring - it would be in line with the kind of mobile games that are popular in Japan, however. Battles and menu-based stuff.
ArchedThunder
Banned
Hey, Square, why don't you release your "console level" mobile games on console too? I don't get why devs don't do that.
Pretty interesting stuff. The ambition seems to be there, the staff seems to be there, and the platform is more viable than ever for this kind of vision. Dimensions was a solid attempt, but lacking. I'm excited to see how this turns out.
Also, I hope this breaks the trend of SE's mobile FFs having terrible character models.
Also, I hope this breaks the trend of SE's mobile FFs having terrible character models.
MagnaderAlpha
Member
That character looks like it subscribes to the "bad style" school of thought that Tidus and Vaan subscribe to.
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
What does Kitase being producer even mean at this point? Unless they are trying to say he's director as well, I don't see how him producing it means anything.
Not that him being director means much either, personally, because I am not a big fan of some of the FFs he's directed.
Haunted
Member
I saw this and was ready to lose my shit because it looked like Sakaguchi was involved.new FF for iOS/Android made by Kitase and "numbered FF staff"
they will show info on next week's famitsu.
Then I saw smartphone and... eh, you know.
That was my second thought, yes.Return to the roots? Again? And the theme is Warriors of Light?
Don't we have this already?
Not that that was a bad game or anything, but it wasn't super great, either.
TheContact
Member
Ugh don't get my hopes up
10x the development costs, if not more, while selling worse? Seems like decent reasons.
EDIT: Sorry, I thought people meant making console games, not just porting phone versions to consoles (which Square-Enix does, or the reverse, sometimes at least)
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
Not if it's just a port to consoles as a download game.
ArchedThunder
Banned
Yeah, sure, porting a mobile game to consoles as a download title will totally increase the costs by a factor of 10.