Game News Final Fantasy: announcements that are too good to be true, beware of false rumours!
On December 18, the original episode of the Final Fantasy franchise celebrated the thirty-fifth anniversary of its launch. For its part, the Japanese publisher Square Enix has not yet organized an event to mark the occasion, but it will not take long to believe the latest rumors. Even better, the schedule for this special meeting would contain huge surprises. As so often, in this kind of case, all this is to be taken with a grain of salt but deserves some attention!
Summary
- Final Fantasy XVI, FFVII Rebirth… A big year 2023 for Square Enix
- Major announcements for FF’s 35th anniversary: too good to be true?
Final Fantasy XVI, FFVII Rebirth… A big year 2023 for Square Enix
The arrival of Final Fantasy XVInew media for games Pixel Remasterthe project Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis which is getting closer on mobile media, the sequel to Final Fantasy VII Remake in the winter of 2023-24… The program around the Final Fantasy franchise is rather attractive for the coming months. However, Square Enix may not have revealed everything! Indeed, the year 2023 started with a rather intriguing hallway noise that mentioned the development of a remake of an extremely popular episode players ! At the moment, we don’t know what the Japanese publisher is up to, but it’s rather surprising to see that there hasn’t been a proper event for the 35th anniversary of the franchise!
Lately, Square Enix has gone all out on the PlayStation 5’s huge summer hit, namely Final Fantasy XVIbut did not dwell that much on the rest to conclude the year 2022. Facetious, the publisher could hit hard at the start of the year becauseafter the words of Yoshinori Kitase who evoked a ” big announcement unrelated to Final Fantasy VII in his happy new year message, a list spotted on the 4chan forum shows potential big announcements for a special event which gives the feeling of being straight out of the wildest dreams of fans of the license.
Major announcements for FF’s 35th anniversary: too good to be true?
Would Square Enix prepare a major event to celebrate, with a bit of a delay, the 35th anniversary of Final Fantasy? According to 4chan, this could well be the case. However, it is better to be wary of this source, given that one sometimes finds everything and anything while strolling there. Still, according to the source, there could be a presentation next February 7punctuated by fourteen revelations both on pre-existing titles and on unsuspected surprises. Thus, Square Enix would not do things by halves for the 35th anniversary of FF since all this could last a little more than 1h20 !
In the lot of announcements, we find a second part of the spin-off World of Final Fantasya new Final Fantasy Tactics – potentially a remaster of the PSP remake War of the Lions –, a third episode for Final Fantasy X… and the famous remake of Final Fantasy IX ! On paper, this all seems too good to be true. : coupled with the fact that the information comes from 4chan, these data are to be taken with immense tweezers and, of course, to be cross-checked with what we already know or old statements.
Take this with the slightest grain of salt but there’s a 4chan rumor going around about an FF 35th anniversary presentation on February 7th.
Announcements include: FFIX Remake, FFX-3, World of FF II and a FF Tactics game.
It sounds like a fan dream more than anything. ? pic.twitter.com/Ke2NHZ95pi
—Andy (@AndSpaceY) January 15, 2023
As an example, Final Fantasy X-3 is cited and it is not surprising since Tetsuya Nomura, illustrious figure of the editor, had declared in 2021 that the likelihood of a third installment was not zero ». It remains to be determined if we are getting closer to this announcement or if those who posted this are smart guys! As for the case of the remake of Final Fantasy IX, it is not mentioned by chance either since this track has been mentioned for some time, here and there, in the news. In September 2021, the name of this episode appeared in the huge GeForce Now data leak from the company Nvidia. In itself, the tracks are plausible, but it will take other more serious sources to fully rejoice : we are already waiting to find out if this special event will indeed take place!
