RPG_Fanatic
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This will need to be pretty cheap for me to consider buying it.
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Final Fantasy Dimensions (iOS/Android) Screens and Info
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RPGCrazied
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Looks like it was made with RPGmaker XP.
Cjdamon042
Member
I was looking forward to this. Now I am not.
That looks god awful. If you're going to go for the old school sprite look, don't apply all those crappy filters on them to make them look smooth. And don't for the love of god use smooth fonts either...Looks horrid.
That looks god awful. If you're going to go for the old school sprite look, don't apply all those crappy filters on them to make them look smooth. And don't for the love of god use smooth fonts either...Looks horrid.
Alex
Member
<3 Naoshi Mizuta, I always felt he should be the one to fill Uematsu's shoes.
Was going to post this. I'd expect an amateurish copy of FF to look like this, not the real thing.
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Deleted member 20415
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Hopefully there's an option to remove those filters. There has to be, right?
Give me raw ass pixels damnit!
Alex
Member
Doubt it, Squares interface work on the US versions of their iOS games look so fucking abhorrent as well.
Most likely not. Chrono Trigger on iOS also comes with an obligatory filter that makes it look like ass.
Define extremely successful ? I doubt it would sell way more than ther slow-effort spin-offs.
SuperAngelo64
Banned
More interested in hearing the remastered tracks from the game than actually playing it.
Naoshi Mizuta <3
Naoshi Mizuta <3
I think we proved that it was...
GitarooMan
Member
Absolutely, it's so awful.
HiddenWings
Member
On one hand, if this is the game I think it is, JOBS! On the other, that is an extremely ugly looking game. There's no reason to mix resolutions in your art, and the smoothing looks pretty bad either way.
first thing I thought
Mechanized
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Whenever I see a Square Enix effort like this it makes me want to make an RPG Maker game and port it to iOS.
http://rpgfan.com/news/2012/1553.html
Maybe it looks better in motion? Really though, it's a port of a Japanese cellphone game, we really shouldn't have expected some sort of miracle. The preview is pretty positive on the other aspects.
Will buy personally. Besides the graphics, everything else seems to be perfect for a nostalgic feel of old FF.
Maybe it looks better in motion? Really though, it's a port of a Japanese cellphone game, we really shouldn't have expected some sort of miracle. The preview is pretty positive on the other aspects.
Will buy personally. Besides the graphics, everything else seems to be perfect for a nostalgic feel of old FF.
Monado Blade
Member
What IS with Square Enix and their crappy fonts on their iOS games? They've had this problem for almost every iOS game they've released. The only game I know that doesn't have an ugly sans serif font is Final Fantasy Tactics.
You'd think for the high prices they charge on games that are just ports of existing games, they'd at least put in an aesthetically pleasing font. Ugh.
5 years ago I'd be all over a new 2D classic-style Final Fantasy, but SE's laziness is something I do not want to reward with a purchase.
You'd think for the high prices they charge on games that are just ports of existing games, they'd at least put in an aesthetically pleasing font. Ugh.
5 years ago I'd be all over a new 2D classic-style Final Fantasy, but SE's laziness is something I do not want to reward with a purchase.
AdventureRacing
Member
This SO looks like it was made in RPG maker.
FFI and II don't, and a lot of others don't too. I think the only ones that do and it looks terrible are this, Chrono Trigger and FFIII.
Monado Blade
Member
So, IGN has videos of it.
http://youtu.be/lxhUIOgvwcU
http://youtu.be/XZUjv4dKJDE
http://youtu.be/tXWmw6mdVU4
I think it looks less terrible in motion and... that music. SO good. Oh my.
http://youtu.be/lxhUIOgvwcU
http://youtu.be/XZUjv4dKJDE
http://youtu.be/tXWmw6mdVU4
I think it looks less terrible in motion and... that music. SO good. Oh my.
It does according to the videos posted above...
Looks way better in motion. Still shit, but... yeah
AuthenticM
Member
Shit looks like it was made with RPG Maker.
That might fly on a GBA Micro screen... but now yu have people who refuse to buy a game if it doesnt support retina.
Actually, if you look at the "Underground Exploration" video, the d-pad shows up elsewhere at around 0:10 and then the person playing makes it appear on that terrible position.
Also, on that same video, it seems the game has some sort of auto-battle option... I hope it's like FFIVDS's auto-battle and not FFIVCC's.
Looks good to me! Instabuy.
If they're only going to cater to people who miss the point then they probably shouldn't even make games in this style.
Anonymous Tipster
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Looks a little better in motion... Battles at least.
But I'd rather not fumble through a touch interface. It looks pretty slow compared to a D-pad.
But I'd rather not fumble through a touch interface. It looks pretty slow compared to a D-pad.
KiTA
Member
UI is a bit brutal, but it makes sense when you realize they intend for this to be playable on the tiny iPhone screen. While many people are clamoring for FF13 style graphics in the UI, well, it wouldn't fit, and usability has to trump shine.
More worryingly is the price. As I mentioned over at Kotaku, if they keep the same prices for the US release, we should expect to pay around $55 for the entire game across 1 year:
Base game + Chapter 1: Free (Released September 6th, 2010)
Chapter 2: 525 yen (~$6.50 USD)
Chapters 3 - 10: 315 yen (~$4.00) each, total: 2520 yen ($31.65 USD)
Chapter 11: 525 yen
Chapter 12, 13: 420 yen ($5.27) each, total: 840 ($10.54 USD) (Released August 8th, 2011)
Total: 4410 yen ($55 USD) Source: Wikipedia
Chapter 11, 12, and 13 were more expensive, but were also larger, and considered the "ending" (or climax if you want to get fancy) chapters, apparently, with all the plot points coming together and all that. Kinda mean to jump the price up at the end in order to drain a few more bucks out of people, though.
I imagine we'll see a discount due to us not being really used to episodic game releases like this: I'm guessing they'll aim for a price point of about $40 across 12 months, or about $3 - $3.50 a chapter, with the first chapter being free.
Which all told isn't bad. I know we're in the era of $0.99 Angry Birds releases, but a 40-50 hour Square Enix RPG is probably worth more than a sodapop at 7-11.
More worryingly is the price. As I mentioned over at Kotaku, if they keep the same prices for the US release, we should expect to pay around $55 for the entire game across 1 year:
Base game + Chapter 1: Free (Released September 6th, 2010)
Chapter 2: 525 yen (~$6.50 USD)
Chapters 3 - 10: 315 yen (~$4.00) each, total: 2520 yen ($31.65 USD)
Chapter 11: 525 yen
Chapter 12, 13: 420 yen ($5.27) each, total: 840 ($10.54 USD) (Released August 8th, 2011)
Total: 4410 yen ($55 USD) Source: Wikipedia
Chapter 11, 12, and 13 were more expensive, but were also larger, and considered the "ending" (or climax if you want to get fancy) chapters, apparently, with all the plot points coming together and all that. Kinda mean to jump the price up at the end in order to drain a few more bucks out of people, though.
I imagine we'll see a discount due to us not being really used to episodic game releases like this: I'm guessing they'll aim for a price point of about $40 across 12 months, or about $3 - $3.50 a chapter, with the first chapter being free.
Which all told isn't bad. I know we're in the era of $0.99 Angry Birds releases, but a 40-50 hour Square Enix RPG is probably worth more than a sodapop at 7-11.
Cjdamon042
Member
Ok it does look better in motion. Still not keen on the artstyle and the font but the music is awesome and I loved I and II on iOS, so I'll no doubt pick it up anyway haha
RPGCrazied
Member
I'd much prefer to play this with something with a dpad. Controlling the character with touch seems so tedious.
Cjdamon042
Member
You get used to it to be honest. It's not as good but there's nothing wrong with it in my opinion.
Wouldn't surprise me if this does end up being released with a base prologue chapter for free and the others unlocked via IAP. Drakerider/Star Burial Dragnir is being released in this way, so perhaps all future SE smartphone RPGs will too.
I don't get it. How can it be slower to just, say, tap on a spell from a huge list, rather than selecting it with a d-pad?
RPGCrazied
Member
Even if I wanted to play, if it was cheap enough, I don't have an iOS device. I think they should put this on PSN and XBLA too.
It's going to be episodic I would guess. After all, didn't SE sell FFIV the Years After in multiple pieces on WiiWare? That was a port of a cellphone game too. In the end they included the full thing in FFIV Complete Collection on PSP.
SE loves to port games so I would think a port could happen.
Really hoping the first chapter is free or that there is a trial. Crossing my fingers so that there is an option to remove the blurry filter too because the game looks awful. I'll give this a go if the complete thing is about 25$ and if the trial is good.
Catchpenny
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HAPPY 25TH ANNIVERSARY, FINAL FANTASY!
The music really sounds nice, but it would have been great if they just did the game in a similar sprite style to the original. Forget FFXIII menu styles, just something similar to FF IV-IX would have been fine, especially since its going for that classic feel. I'm really hoping for some sort of "classic" option where everything isnt all smudged smooth.
KiTA
Member
Did it have original sprites? It was original a cellphone game in Japan, so it might have always looked like this, except for the UI.
Edit: Answered my own question:
http://elder-geek.com/2011/09/tgs-final-fantasy-legends-headin-to-ios-android-next-year/
Compare and contrast:
http://www.gamezone.com/news/final-fantasy-dimensions-coming-to-mobile-devices-this-summer
So this is the original art of the game, they did not redraw any 16 bit sprites as vectors or whatever you call those more modern fancypants things.
No, that's the iOS/Android port, the original game was shown earlier this thread in this post.