Final Fantasy VI “Square Enix Quality”
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 17, 2014 11:35 JST
- Tags: Final Fantasy, Keitai, Ports, Remakes, Retro, RPG, Square Enix
Final Fantasy fans have been busily debating the merits of Square Enix’s suitably enhanced port of Final Fantasy VI to lucrative and reassuringly non-HD Android platform.
The game, available in English and Japanese amongst other languages, is based on the 1994 SNES original but dumps its pixelated designs in favour of new designs – though they are still by Kazuko Shibuya, the artist who designed the originals.
The reaction amongst Japanese gamers looks mixed to say the least:
“Looks cheap as hell.”
“Keeping it pixelated would have been a million times better.”
“It is forgivable I suppose.”
“Looks like something made with an RPG maker…”
“At least we can make fun of it.”
“Pixel art really has a different feel to it.”
“It’s a lot cuter now though!”
“I could cry comparing this to FF5…”
“The mismatch between the retro environments and the new character graphics is overpowering.”
“I hope it is not buggy rubbish like FF5 was.”
“The art is nice but completely out of place in this game.”
“As long as it has Amano’s art!”
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i'd rather play the real thing on an emulator, screw this shit.
And not on a phone.
It's a shame they don't make 'em like they used to anymore.
This makes me incredibly sad.
Sabin suplexes a train ...
Mind=blown ._.
he should suplex this one game though. its more doomed than the doomtrain.
Sabin suplexes himself to death.
Mind=Imploded
If Square Enix wants money they should just make a proper HD remake of FFVII. Dumbasses.
No...they really shouldn't. All they can and will do is fuck it up. I really wish they'd stop fucking with the classics but look at them to see what they did right to make them so loved (once upon a time) and see all the things they are doing wrong now.
Face it fanboys/girls, Square is dead and SquareEnix produces shit. Time to move on.
VII was garbage, not that I'd expect the JRPG America's casuals to first cut their teeth on would know or acknowledge this.
A "proper" FFVII remake would cost too much to call it a money maker (words taken from SE itself). Sure, they would cash in like crazy at first, but once the hype from nostalgia fanboys wanes, their numbers would plummet to the ground, just as it has happened before.
See, there is a reason why economics are universary-level studies: internet randoms cannot define it in a 2-line comment. It would be cool if it was, but... the world is not that simple.
Clearly, you are far more aware of the costs associated with game design and the demand for one of the most requested videogame remakes ever. Thank you, Mr. Not-Internet Random.
That would cost them even more because they'd have to make things from scratch. That's why they started making sequels to the numbered FFs so they could reuse stuff. :(
it looks like games I was playing 15 years ago.
http://i.minus.com/iEQKZKebggcwQ.png
What we could have gotten...
what's that?, tell me it just isn't some random deviantart art
and the download is nearly 500mb total... .. I'd rather just use a snes emulator honestly.
Regardless of quality, mobile games will never get my money.
Graphics don't matter unless it interferes with gameplay or is vastly disconnected from the tone of the game. These are just increased graphics in the same style as the original so people are stupid to complain unless they charge a ridiculous amount.
Screw all the haters, I'm going to buy the best FF game (again) so I can have it on my phone and replay one of the best stories and have some of the best characterization ever put into a game.
It's 2014 square come the fuck on
Square can't understand how many people would pay for HD remakes of pre-10 FF games. I mean, how can they not understand it? A FF7 remake would probably sell as much as a GotY...
Read my reply above, it also applies to your deluded conception of "money".
I think FF7 aside the graphic, have what it take to be a GotY. It also already have plenty fanbase waiting in line.
How... how could they dare to ruin even FF6?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s !!!!!
Everything has to be moe these days. There would be nothing wrong with keeping them either in their original or at least not making them "cute". I'm not a fan of this.
I honestly don't see the problem.
WEEBLES! Weebles sucks out loud!
On Android?! That just confuses me.
That character artwork toward the bottom of the article is from the original SNES release, so I don't know why it's here.
i dont care what they do, but they should give you the option to play the unaltered original (wich im guessing they dont) well ill keep using emulators
Man...it's so sad to see Square Enix clinging into old games like this...it's like they're breathing on life support...
Bankrupt company. Jump the boat before is too late.
Nearly 20 bucks for a shoddy, slapped-on filter? Ten-year old SNES emulators had way better filters than this half-assed job. The game itself is easily worth the money BUT Square-Fucking-Enix isn't. Never again will i support that stinking carcass. Fuck them and all the Japs that ruin true gaming with their shitty fixation on fucking social games. Like their fucked-up society, their games are equally screwed. Too bad that Mistwalker also seems to hop onto the social gaming train. It's like a fucking epidemic disease. Fuck you, Square-Enix, fuck you Capcom. Leave the classics alone you good-for-nothing shitheads.
Their choice of filtering really looks like shit.
Those pseudo-3D renders of the characters aren't even from this remake, I remember them from the manual for Final Fantasy Anthology on the PS1
But yeah this looks like fucking shit and it gives off a very different feel from the original.
As long as they don't put those "clowns with AIDS" draws from Amano it shall be OK.
Yes, those Amano characters look like clowns with aids. They really look sick.
That trollface kraken alone is worth it.
It's the legend Ultros motherfucker, recognize. He's octopus royalty. Learn or face the taciturn Mr. Chupon.
Why not upgrade the gameplay and the graphics, add-in some scenes with full CG graphics enhanced with latest technology, and a new soundtrack to boot. Not only recycled Final Fantasy...
Because money. All that you listed is super expensive. Granted they should have tried better, but what you said for a game that wouldn't sell as much ( esp on mobile market) would not be able to recoup the dev costs.
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Doesn't look much different from the SNES version.
Lazy.
strike 1 = no voice acting.
strike 2 = meh visuals.
strike 3 = nothing interesting.
therefore, i will avoid the final fantasy franchise and it's iterations like a plague except for final fantasy 15 which seems to have nothing to do with final fantasy and thank god!!!!!!!!!
Prepare to be disappointed.
Mark my words: FF15 is going to be the worst of them all and will make FF13 look like a gem of a game.
We already know FFXV will be a huge steaming turd, all they did was STEAL from The Last Story and turn everyone visual kai. Which means there's bound to a brooding main character, a crying shota and many more generic characters.
More like polished shit at best...
At the risk of being overpowered by naysayers , I really like the redesign.
It is, to my mind, both cleaner and cuter than the original.
Makes me wish I owned something android compatible.
The game was not meant to be cute. In the game's story you are trying to overthrow a totalitarian government taking over the world and enslaving magical beings, and then survive and defeat essentially a god in an apocalyptic world. "Cute" has nothing to do with the game.
there's an android-emulating software for PC
It probably works with Bluestacks.