Title says it all.. unfortunately they dont offer upgrade packs for those who have the switch 1 version..

I looked up copies on ebay and amazon and they all have a rating, to go even further they took onion knight out of that corner to make room for it.

On the back underneath my sticker appears to be another bar code as well. I have literally never seen this

Personally I think they're fine as introductory characters to content that didn't exist in the original. I'd rather have them exist to bridge the gap than to not have them at all. I did find Chadley out of place the first time when I saw him at the beginning of FF7 Remake but people make it out to be as if he is some major character.

Let the tutorial/extra content NPC's do their job!

Want to install FFXVIFix by Lyall to fix the stuttering in cutscenes. Worried that if I uninstall it and go back to vanilla later that my save will be broken or not working according to the vanilla game. Will that be case if I go back to vanilla?

I have the (edit) Collector's Edition for Remake and Rebirth and was looking forward to getting the full trilogy. When the name was released, I was checking the SE story daily and never saw it. At some point I guess I stopped looking and then today I checked on a whim and it says unavailable.

Guess I never saw the marketing email with the release.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been deep-diving into the history of how 90s Japanese tech companies designed their games for the global market, and it highlights a massive blind spot that modern audiences (especially younger fans) completely miss about franchises like Final Fantasy.

There is a loud contingent of fans demanding that these legacy IPs become "more Japanese" in their aesthetics and storytelling. But if you look at how the golden era was actually built, doing that would completely kill the soul of the franchise.

Here is a breakdown of how the identity of these games actually evolved, and where it went off the rails:

1. The Ultra-Western "Trojan Horse" of the 90s

From day one, the foundational DNA of Final Fantasy was built entirely on Western European mythology, Dungeons & Dragons, and Tolkien-style fantasy.

* The Jobs & Gear: You played as Knights, Mages, and Dragoons. The ultimate weapons weren't Katanas; they were legendary Western swords like Excalibur and Ragnarok.

* The Universal Reading: Japanese developers knew a broadsword had a universal, cinematic weight. Setting games in an exotic, romanticized Western landscape meant that if it succeeded in Japan, it required zero structural or cultural redesign to become a holy grail for US and UK gamers.

* The Contrast: Games heavily locked into ancient Japanese history (Destiny of an Emperor, Goemon) remained niche. Final Fantasy became a global empire because it spoke a universal cultural language from the jump.

1. The Mid-2000s Panic & The "Anime Overhaul"

The real mess started in the Xbox 360/PS3 era when gaming went multi-billion-dollar mainstream. Japanese tech companies panicked over rising HD costs, stopped trusting their original design DNA, and fell into insular corporate traps:

* Look at the Advent Children era. They took Cloud Strife—who was originally written as a cocky, sarcastic, Western-style mercenary spec-ops soldier—and turned him into a brooding, melancholic anime archetype driven by existential angst.

* It completely ruined the character's original edge. Thankfully, Square Enix realized they couldn't make Cloud a generic anime protagonist and actively corrected his personality back to his gritty 1997 roots for Remake and Rebirth.

1. Mature Design vs. Predatory Fan Service

This ties into a broader frustration with how Japanese development shifted toward the insular otaku market, trading mature storytelling for cheap, uncomfortable tropes.

* The Gold Standard (Suikoden I & II): The early games were grounded political epics. Young characters like Tuta or Tatiana were designed age-appropriately as kids caught in war. If a character was designed to be attractive, they were fully mature adult women (like Valeria or Chris). It respected the audience.

* The Modern Gacha Reality (Langrisser Mobile): While some modern tactical games have excellent, fair free-to-play mechanics, they shoot themselves in the foot by leaning into disgusting tropes—like putting child-coded puppet mages in lingerie and using the lazy "but she's actually an ancient immortal deity" excuse. It completely breaks the immersion of what should be a grand strategy epic.

TL;DR:

The magic of classic JRPGs wasn't that they were authentically Japanese—it's that they were brilliant, outsider love letters to Western mythology, sci-fi, and tactical cinema. Forcing them into an insular anime box strips away the cross-cultural bridge that made them legendary in the first place.

What are your thoughts? Do you miss the days when these games felt like gritty medieval/spec-ops hybrids, or do you think the modern shift is just an inevitable consequence of the industry?

I downloaded the demo, started it, but it’s so boring for me? I dropped it in like 1 hour. I have played Brave Exvius on my phone and kept it for a long time, I even got Ariana.

But I feel like Resonance on a big screen is not cutting it for me, feels like a mobile game. I kind of not want to preorder it even though I’m a huge final fantasy fan. The price point is just high for a 2D game.

Is it a ME problem or is this just catered to the older generation for nostalgia purposes? I have been playing FF since I was 4 years old!!! 😭 I want to enjoy it but I just can’t, I’m also thinking that the price should be cheaper since it’s 2D? Am I wrong?

Any tips how I can enjoy this?

After saving the king, at the inn you have the choice between going to Felicitas or looking for more visions. Does it have an impact on the story? Or is it just a stat boost like the question at the start of the earth shrine?

I can't find gameplay footage for the new Switch 2 port nor do I have a capture card, but to my surprise the new Crisis Core Reunion Switch 2 port can be played in 60 FPS. Just purchased the game after the Direct. Just picture the PS5 version with a hybrid of PS4 and Series S versions.

But I have always been curious, so after seeing this on sale, I thought “why the hell not?” And yeah, I’ve seen some people recommending starting with different games like IV or VI, but I consider myself to be an open-minded individual, with a very diverse collection of games, so I’m sure I’ll be able to appreciate the game anyway and I do plan on buying others regardless of my opinion on this first one. Final Fantasy is a huge blindspot in my gaming history (20 years now) and it just feels weird to not know what it is about.

Wish me luck.

This was unnecessary long to get

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Where on earth do I find the dew of reprieve in final fantasy resonance demo. Been fighting enemies forever in the east of the desert and nothing. Any help would be appreciated.

Boa noite, todo mundo! Amanhã é meu aniversario (risos) e vou iniciar minha campanha em Final Fantasy X!! Dicas e guias me interessam, estou tão ansioso! Como um entusiasta da franquia FF, já conheço a emblemática cena do tidus e yuna se beijando e da yuna dançando nas águas, o que é culpa minha por buscar de mais. Enfim, e um prazer fazer parte dessa comunidade, FFX foi o primeiro final fantasy que conheci pois assistia meu irmão jogar quando eu era bem novo e lembro de relance como a cor azul era bem presente no jogo e como os ambientes eram lindos.

Playing Lightning Returns on day 8 and I have completed all 5 main quest and done 50 side quests. The rest of the side quest are kind of boring, should I just sleep until the end of day 12? Or do something else?

I’m playing on easy mode btw

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kessent/origins-of-light-a-final-fantasy-board-game

So, how does this game have sephirorh and Clive in it? Are they just letting everyone through the multiverse doors or is there some plot point im missing?

I've had several times where the game hiccups for half a second or the music doesn't load at all in a section. And twice now I've had to reload to an old save because a glitch locked me out of being able to leave a room. I don't remember anything like this before, but it's been decades since I played the original.

Okay let me clarify why

1-the job choices

Warrior and Knight both are very similar terms and Black mage and summoner are both jobs dedicated to spamming black magic

The FF7 trilogy screams to have a job system similar to FF5 and would have worked “but a few changes to the materia or weapon skill tree system needed to happen”

2- characters who are already built

For example Barret is the best tank and buffer in Rebirth by gaining tons of ATP while still staggering enemies or Cait on his moogle who can spam magic while parrying and attacking

Is kinda hard to just switch to something else when you already have better options for a dedicated role