#final-fantasy

#final-fantasy

In 2023, Final Fantasy Final Fantasy XVI producer Naoki Yoshida indicated his distaste for the term JRPG, saying that Square Enix doesn't go into its games trying to make a JRPG. "We go into them thinking we're going to create RPGs," he explained. Before this, Nintendo producer Hitoshi Yamagami, who worked with MonolithSoft on Xenoblade Chronicles X, echoed similar sentiments, saying, "I feel like we just make RPGs, I don't need anyone to add the 'J', personally."

Final Fantasy is a lot like Mario in that it's one of the only series out there with so many iconic characters that you can basically fill an entire crossover game with Final Fantasy characters alone. That's the entire thesis of the Dissidia games, bringing the cast from across three decades of history together, to often hilarious results. Seeing the stoic and subdued Noctis talk to the devilish Shantotto is objectively hilarious - and the new Dissidia has a setting absolutely ripe for those kinds of moments. That's because Square Enix's new mobile game, Dissidia Duellum Final Fantasy, quite literally drops everyone into modern-day Japan. It's already sounding like the most unique Dissidia game to date - but that might be a good thing.

Podcaster and leaker NateTheHate spilled the beans on X early on Tuesday. It began the night before when people started asking him for information about when Sony's next showcase would be. "Sony has a presentation soon," he replied cryptically. Then earlier today he elaborated, "Next week." NateTheHate's had a good track record ever since he accurately reported on the Switch 2 reveal earlier this year, and a PlayStation event pegged to Tokyo Game show would make sense.

Final Fantasy Tactics is receiving a remake titled The Ivalice Chronicles, bringing nostalgic strategic gameplay back to both longtime fans and newcomers.