Shares of Square Enix Holdings Co. tumbled 16% in their biggest decline in 13 years after its president said sales of recent big-budget games disappointed and that it would take years for a recent reorganization to bear fruit.
07.05.2024 - 19:29 / thegamer.com
Four months into 2024 and there have already been a lot of big games we'll continue to talk about and play throughout the rest of the year and beyond. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is unquestionably one of those games, not only because its story and side content comfortably provide players with more than 100 hours of things to do, but because its characters are some of the most beloved in all of gaming. Bring Arts models of some of those characters have now found their way onto Amazon, and the wait you'll have for them to arrive further demonstrates we'll be talking about Rebirth for a while yet.
Bring Arts figures are officially licensed collectibles from Square Enix and several Rebirth models have been restocked and released over the past few days. That includes a couple of the more popular characters' figures finally arriving on Amazon. Cloud and Tifa's figures are now both available to pre-order on Amazon for $120 each, and a new, ever-so-slightly more expensive Cid Highwind figure is also on Amazon.
The only downside to the trio of figures' arrivals on Amazon is how long you'll have to wait for them once your pre-orders have been placed. Cloud and Tifa's figures won't be with you until January 2025, and Cid's figure is still more than a year away from being shipped having been given a release date of July 3, 2025. A long time to wait to get your hands on your favorite Final Fantasy 7 characters, but hey, it's better than them being out of stock forever, or in Cid's case, never made at all.
Based on the character's look in Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Tifa was one of the first characters from the game to be turned into a Bring Arts figure. The cherry on the cake is the figure no longer comes with the NFT it was initially paired with at release.
Yuffie and Cait Sith - complete with the Fatmoogle he rides - figures have also been revealed, both at Entertainment Earth, but both are currently sold out. Great news that the characters have been added to the Rebirth Bring Arts collection, and the semi-regular restocks also mean we almost certainly haven't seen the last of them. The Cait Sith and Yuffie figures also haven't come to Amazon yet, so keep your eyes peeled for that after how quickly they sold out at Entertainment Earth.
There's always a Cid in Final Fantasy, and in Final Fantasy 7, that Cid is Cid Highwind. The pilot who transports the gang over long distances in Rebirth, and a character deserving of his own Bring Arts character in the Square Enix collection.
If Final Fantasy 7's Bring Arts figures are ringing a bell, you may well be remembering the initial release of Cloud and Tifa's figures following Remake's launch. The figures caused quite a stir since they came with NFTs. When the figures
Shares of Square Enix Holdings Co. tumbled 16% in their biggest decline in 13 years after its president said sales of recent big-budget games disappointed and that it would take years for a recent reorganization to bear fruit.
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