[kupoartist]

Just thought I'd highlight just how many projects Square are putting out with the Final Fantasy name right now:

Final Fantasy 1 [Mobile] (Remake, graphics between NES and PS1 versions)
Final Fantasy 3 [Nintendo DS]
Final Fantasy 5 Advance [Gameboy Advance] (Improved GFX, extras)
Final Fantasy 6 Advance [Gameboy Advance] (Improved GFX, extras)
Final Fantasy 7: Before Crisis [Mobile] (FF7 Prequel with the Turks)
Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core [Playstation Portable] (FF7 Prequel with Zack)
Final Fantasy 7: Dirge of Cerberus [Playstation 2] (FF7 Sequel w/ Vincent. Already released in Japan)
Final Fantasy 7: Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode [Mobile] (3D game accompanying PS2 release)
Final Fantasy 11: Treasures of Aht Urhgan [PS2 / PC / 360] (Expansion)
Final Fantasy 12 [Playstation 2] (Already out in Japan)
Final Fantasy 13 [Playstation 3] (The main game)
Final Fantasy Versus 13 [Playstation 3] (Some sort of inversion of the main game)
Final Fantasy Agito 13 [Mobile] (No real details, but related to the other two)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers [Nintendo Wii] (uses motion sensor)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates [Nintendo DS] (WiFi features)

15 titles in all, which is either good or bad. From the sounds of it, many of our forum regulars are on the side of this being a bad thing, of Square selling out. Nontheless, I am confident that Square is releasing so much stuff that there's bound to be at least one title you're hankering after.

From my own personal view? There are 13 titles on that list that I could not care less about. Then there is Final Fantasy 12, and Final Fantasy 3. 12 has been hitting to rave reviews, and has a dev team behind it that fills me with excitement. Final Fantasy 3 is my new god.

Imagine the only old-school FF you have never played: right, that's good huh? Right. Imagine now that, unlike the other gazillion versions of oldschool FF games, Square-Enix are actually trying with this one. No: I don't mean that it has gone from looking like a NES game into looking like a SNES game. I mean that they've gone and made it look like a PS One game. Now, it doesn't stop there! They've gone and made each character unique and given them their own backstory, and the FFIII story was allegedly the very first FF story that was actually fleshed out quite a bit... and then the game has classes and you see them onscreen too! Yay! I want this game and I don't own a DS, and I don't see that as an issue in the least! Yay! The touchscreen will even be used in the menus and stuff

Here are some cool scans from out in the netherworld (sorry ffonline )

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Only criticisms I have are pretty small, but they've apparently done away with the onion knight class, and the "blue" character used to be black as opposed to female... and for that matter, why does the girl / guy ratio always have to be 3:1. Grrr!!!!!!!

Oh, and if there was any kind of FF Tactics game in development, I'd moan even less. (Tactics DS please!)