By the time I spent about an hour with Final Fantasy 7: Ever Crisis, I was hit with an overwhelming wave of familiarity. Not because of nostalgia for Final Fantasy 7, though I have fond memories of that game. Rather, it was because I have seen virtually this exact same game on mobile devices for the past seven years now.
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Final Fantasy 16 attracted plenty of plaudits and critical acclaim, but series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi may have endorsed it with its most important yet, describing it as the “ultimate” entry in the franchise. The ex-Square Enix director – who left the company in 2003 – posted the comments on Twitter, which will come as music to the ears of the development team.
Despite launching to strong reviews, Final Fantasy 16 has been on a bit of a rollercoaster commercially these past few weeks. Originally, the publisher had said that it considered sales of the game to be “extremely strong”, but during an investor meeting it backtracked and blamed the PS5’s smaller install base for lower-than-expected numbers.
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It’s likely the game will have long legs, especially considering the strong word of mouth surrounding it. And comments like these from Sakaguchi-san certainly won’t hurt on that front.
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" but during an investor meeting it backtracked and blamed the PS5’s smaller install base for lower-than-expected numbers"
Wasn't that later debunked?
@naruball Yeah by the person who said it himself.
I really hope the DLC they're hopefully making expands some of the other combat abilities and not just possibly Leviathan.
SE needs to do one thing to prove if this is the case, make the next ff game in the same way they used to, something like ff9, this will prove what style fans want!
I think ff13 was the best balance of both worlds
@Nepp67 that just sounds like another Square Enix cover up.
@Jireland92 It's literally in the tweet itself lol.
Loved this game. Finished it on Thursday evening and had a brilliant time with it
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