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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Celes on Android? Yes PLEASE!
What have they done to the best Final Fantasy ever made? Square-Enix full of madness!
They’re Dancing Mad.
*Insert 16-bit Kefka laugh*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyZoe-r9qb0
Thank you, Anonymous 17:10.
Hardcore fans are never quite pleased- if it's different then "It's too different!", if it's the same- "OMG CLONE NO PROGRESS IN DESIGN WHAT AM I PAYING YOU FOR??"
It's an Android game, expecting anything better than angry birds and bejeweld quality is pushing it too far.
As usual, it is true.
I agree the disconnect is noticable, so it feels like they are pasted on top of the backgrounds, so that is something we can't really ignore.
But all is forgiven...
Celes is in the green swimsuit.
If they had redesigned her into the belly-dancer outfit she had in her designs, I'd have been disappointed. Real female generals wear swimsuits and epaulets into battle, god dammit!
they never do get pleased, but then they'll play it anyway LOL tsundere much XD
Some Android games are close to console quality these days. Ever played Asphalt 8 and Modern Combat 4?
That's not true, honestly. Fan modded FF7 is great. RE:Remake on GCN is the pinnacle of survival horror. RPG maker-izing the graphics on a port of a classic is sacrilege. They could have improved the graphics by scaling the resolution on the game and faithfully redoing the pixel art to scale. I wouldn't call this an improvement.
WTF did they do to this?!?!?!
I hereby demand a full 60fps UHD resolution
upgraded port with all new visuals/audio.
Anything less is just plain sacrilege.
Screw every game after FF8 (except FF9).
So wtf did you not just write "every game after FF9" directly instead?
Screw FF8/10/13. 14 I don't know. 15 will suck. Rest are at least good to some degree.
I don't understand the rose tinted hate at all.
Unpleaseable fanbase.
Fucking seriously, they are staying true to the art design of the original and the original SD Character art. If anything it's simply too bright.
The concept artist for a host of characters was actually the wrong style but the limited 16-bit hardware made his concept art work when translated to 16-bit pixel art
The original 16-bit art of final fantasies took concept art as inspiration, the concept art for FF was always pretty inconsistent and the pixel artists made it work by taking the general archetype the concept artist made and making it work.
It was never a direct 1 to 1 translation and the idiots at square never understood that.
The concept art really was more a basic archetype that other pixel artists made work through only using it as inspiration and putting their own flair to it.
I think not. I never played the game much (via emulator) and watched a few streams via twitch play it and honestly I think it looks like crap in comparison to the original. No rose tint here since I will still not play it as far as I care.
people, as in gamers, expecting it to be remade in more sense than just the graphics; new gameplay elements and new extra bits to the story won't hurt squeenix at all.
FF6 was only ever popular among the kind of hipsters who think it's cool to say that franchises are ruined when they become popular, so it's no surprise that they'd bitch about whatever change was made.
Says the 00s kid that never owned a NIB SNES.
Whoa, get a load of this guy! He was callin' people hipsters before it was cool.
FF6 is great on so many levels, you're completely full of shit. Try actually playing it, instead of writing it off due to pixels and omgreading because your brain has been fucked from today's average spoonfeeders.
No, they didn't. The original game is dark, and the pixel art represented it perfectly. Everything in the game now looks bright and flat, like they said in the article comments, from RPG Maker. Everything looks like stickers on top of a background, and they even put crappy 3D modeled versions of some cities that are so small in comparison to the overworld characters that they look ridiculous. This is the exact same crap the outsourced studio pulled with FF5's mobile release, only it looks even worse because FF5 at least had the bright color pallet from the start. This is an insult to the people who originally made the game, and even though it's one of my favorite games in the series, I will not be buying it.
This makes me incredibly sad.
Wait until you see FF VII and VIII as well.
A very good way to bring down legendary series by milking their fans.
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain!
Square's long gone. This monstrosity that dares use its and Enix's name should be put down as well.
"Wait until you see FF VII"
We all know that wouldn't happen.
Naw they will but it will just be FFVII with a few filters and the modded version will still be 10 times better.
You do know that FFVII already exists as "remake" as does VIII.
Both available on steam.
i'd rather play the real thing on an emulator, screw this shit.
It's a shame they don't make 'em like they used to anymore.
And not on a phone.
Sabin suplexes a train ...
Mind=blown ._.
Sabin suplexes himself to death.
Mind=Imploded
he should suplex this one game though. its more doomed than the doomtrain.
Can someone explain to me why they ONLY changed the character sprites, and left everything else essentially untouched? Why even bother?
graphics are untouched? a bit regardless
there is a pic of a snowy hill (not posted here)
you can see that it's better than the original one (http://storage.siliconera.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/ffvi2_thumb.jpg)
its SLIGHTLY better
They also redid the GUI. And you could make the argument that the background art was already less pixelated that then character sprites in the original so it made less sense to upgrade those. But yes I wish they had gone the extra mile and upgrade the backgrounds too.
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.
there's an android-emulating software for PC
It probably works with Bluestacks.
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.
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.
More like polished shit at best...
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.
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.
If Square Enix wants money they should just make a proper HD remake of FFVII. Dumbasses.
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. :(
VII was garbage, not that I'd expect the JRPG America's casuals to first cut their teeth on would know or acknowledge this.
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.
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.