Square Enix Event Revelations

Square Enix has their yearly media event in Japan this past weekend, and news on upcoming titles is plentiful. Final Fantasy XII has finally been given a release date...in Japan. The Japanese launch is set for March 16, 2006. Aside from knowing the Japanese release date, details on the theme song for the highly anticipated title were also available. Aside from the heavyweight, information on Square Enix's Mobile games had some time in the sun, FFVII: Dirge of Cerberus had some new info revealed, and Fantasy Earth (Square's next MMO) was shown off but was unplayable. FFXI, their current MMOG, got the business end of a Q&A about upcoming plans, while movie fans will be happy to hear that FFVII: Advent Children is set to premiere in Japanese theaters in September. Finally, the rumour from the event that has everyone excited is the possibility that the Final Fantasy VII tech demo is more than a demo. The beautiful movie, shown originally at E3 this year, was shown again at the event and has prompted commentators to wonder if this is the first glimpse of the much rumoured remake of the classic console RPG.

VII? What about III/VI?

[jpsowin]

Their best game hands down was Final Fantasy III (US) / VI (Jap). I would love to see a remake of that.

KH2

[vethia]

Nothing about Kingdom Hearts II? I hope it's still on schedule...

I saw a release poster in Suncoast yesterday that listed Advent Children as coming out in September (I live in the US). With misinformation like that floating around, it makes it hard to believe anything about these release schedules.

Re:Aeris

[roystgnr]

Why would you be able to reverse a major plot point just because it's being remade?

Because frankly, it was a pretty stupid plot point. In most other stories the opposite would be true, and dead characters should stay dead, but if I have to grind through 20 hours of Final Fantasy gameplay to see 2 hours of story, they should at least keep the two consistent with each other! I can't be the only one who wanted to yell at the characters:

"Phoenix Down! Use a Phoenix Down! I've got 99 of them! This isn't even the first time Aeris has needed to be resurrected today!!!"

Re:Question

[Anonymous Coward]

Enix is dead. Squaresoft has been ever since the release of FFVII, but they keep on trying to pretend they're still relevant anyway.

Just be glad that they're not ruining any Enix titles so you can still hope that they'll sell them off to a competant developer.