If you are like me Final Fantasy holds a special place in your heart. I remember the very first FF game that I played. In America it was called Final Fantasy 2 and we acquired it at a now non-existant store called Montgomery Ward. My friend was actually the one buying the game (I was I think 15 years old and had no money) and talked him into buying it. He was apprehensive and told me that I would be forced to give him the money back if the game sucked - it ended up being the best game ever.
Anyway, here we are 13 installments and 30 years later and rather than make another game, Square-Enix is remaking what in my mind is one of the best titles they ever released.
The Final Fantasy games, for the most part, have been really good. There were a few duds in there and their initial foray into MMO territory was an unmitigated disaster, but by most people's standards the Final Fantasy games are the creme de la creme of RPG gaming. In many people's opinions, FF7 was the most groundbreaking and had the best story.
The game follows primarily a character named "Cloud" and as usual him and his group of ragtag adventurers are combating an evil corporation/government. He meets various other people to join his crew as the game progresses and as you might expect, more and more equipment is found, spells are learned, and more powerful partners enter the game.
The combat was turn-based and various strategies need to be implemented in order to boost your own "turn recharge" and also to counteract spells that the enemy uses to slow your recharge down. Characters frequently die during combat but certain members and items (the infamous Phoenix Down potion) to bring them back into the fray. While turn-based combat rarely exists in games these days, it was all the rage back in the day.
What made Final Fantasy so epic was the engaging story and also a truly wonderful bad guy named Sephiroth that is one of the most loved characters the franchise has ever produced.
Sephiroth wasn't always a baddie and at times during the story you actually fight alongside him, he just "goes to the dark side" so to speak and at times is even at ends with his own evil intentions. His overall objective is rooted in what he believes to be a just direction for the universe. He doesn't believe that what he is doing is the wrong thing much like Thanos in Avengers.
So this is getting remade with the same story (some tweaking) an updated combat system that will be mostly devoid of the annoying random-encounter battle system, and of course far superior graphics and sound.
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of course in the remake Cloud's hair remains in just the right places at all time
This game was made due to constant pressure from the fans, which I think is just magnificent that Square-Enix listened to those requests and they seem to be taking their sweet-ass time finally getting around to it because there is still no official release date although they have promised that more footage will be released at E3 in 2019.
I don't know if anyone who was too young to enjoy the original in 1997 will be anywhere near as excited as I am to see this development but you really should be because the original pretty much consumed every videogame nerd's life for several months in that time. For me, this is something that I think I am looking forward to more than any other game release ever.