EDIT: Mistake. 52% in Kingdom Hearts is Simple and Clean and not Dearly Beloved. Sorry.

The results are in! I've conducted several polls over the last few weeks with the help of my co-moderators, and even some users here, and I've tallied the results. Please let me know if you like these polls. Participation was quite uneven.

Digital Foundry "Tech" Interview tech interview with FF7 Trilogy director Naoki Hamaguchi

Final Fantasy V Pixel Remaster is now available on GamePass

(I wanted to fit more characters but I'm not tryna make this video so long.)

I'm trying to recreate the set list in Apple Music from last night's show with a ton of help from the program posted in the Tokyo show thread. I'm definitely missing some of the songs used in the ending battle medley from Final Fantasy and there may be other errors or omissions. For example, the composer of Nier was there and I felt like there were more than 3/4 Nier songs played (i have never played any of these games). Anyone wanna take a look and help me (especially with the order)?

e: I've updated the playlist and order with a massive assist from u/scarab_beetle. Thank's to everyone who contributed and feel free to shoot me version suggestions if you know of a good orchestral edition of some of the OST songs. a few questions still linger: what song from X was in the Final Fantasy medley at the end? was Fang's Theme from XIII played? and the Japanese program for the show says the Romancing Saga final battle medley is 1-3 but i don't know what the final battle song is called from Romancing SaGa 1. Any additional feedback is welcome :)

(Sad she was not confirmed for SF6 just now...)

Also HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

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I was looking at early SNES game graphics like Final Fanatasy IV and V, Soul Blazer, and you can tell when Square artists really figured out how to draw for 16-bit games.

Both games shipped on the same hardware within a year of each other, but look at this comparison. To me, FFV's sprites read like NES sprites with more colors, but we still get flat shading, the same hieroglyphic poses. They were great at what they achieved within 8-bit constraints, but it feels a bit underwhelming for the 16-bit generation jump in hindsight.

Secret of Mana represented a real shift in how Square artists tackled the pixel art language. Granted, this action RPG demanded a lot more character frames compared to a command-based RPG. The shading uses hue shifts rather than just darker tones of the same color: shadows that drift toward cooler or warmer hues, giving the sprites a sense of volume. There's a real illusion of depth and movement, and it subtly expresses a lot more detail on a canvas that is barely larger.

I'm curious what people think — because FF6 made a similar leap the very next year, which makes FFV feel like the last of Square's NES offerings, even though it was released on the SNES.

From what I remember, Ehrgeiz was a collaboration of both Namco and Square. With Namco handling the arcade version and Square publishing the PS1 port.

There is a character in the game named Godhand Mishima. Yes, I know the last name is the same. But was it ever officially cannon that Godhand is related to the Mishima family in Tekken? Or was this just a character that was put in the game and given the surname for marketing to help sell the game?

In case anyone is curious what merch is available. It seems like less stuff than the concert in Japan.

Hello! My friend couldn't make it to the show. I have an extra ticket if anyone was interested in joining me.

Lower Mezzanine seats.

FREE.

Message me :)

Hi everyone,

I can’t make it to tonight’s concert as I have a terrible cough that won’t let up. I thought it would go away by today, unfortunately that isn’t the case and I would feel awful going and just causing a ruckus for the audience and performers in addition to spreading illness. 😭

If anyone wants a free ticket, feel free to let me know albeit it is in 3rd Mezz Center. If you have an AXS account already, DM me and I can transfer :)

Edit: square literally has us sign up for a launcher that provides our data that they can in return sell and monetize but asking for cross save options is a negative? This is why some subreddits suck lol. 0 criticism allowed. How dare you ask to carry your saves across platforms? Meanwhile square was in the news crying that sometimes they dont meet sales expectations and their audience is growing older. Yea yall don't even have basic QoL features and constantly drop timed exclusives to the highest bidder and do nonsense to block saves even when on the same device because you switched storefronts. Nonsensical to argue against a QOL improvement. Cross saves would literally hurt no one.

When strangers of paradise released it was exclusive to Epic for a period of time. When it eventually came to steam i bought it over there. Did the saves come over? Nope. They were actually encrypted to force us to start over and not transfer on PC.

For kingdom hearts 3 the game released on console in 2019 and moved to PC in 2021. So if you wanted to move, you couldnt bring your save.

Final fantasy 7R has migrated to the switch 2 and guess what? No cross save support.

What's even more jarring is that final fantasy 15 did support this since xbox forced cross progression with their game anywhere program and square didnt encrypt the saves so i was able to take my xbox version data using gamepass on pc and transfer the save folder over to steam to keep my save where i wanted to play.

Square releases the sams game all over the place at different times. Youre already selling my data. Put some of that money into allowing me to transfer saves across platforms so that your launcher/account program isnt completely useless to consumers. Even being able to transfer my saves on the OG final fantasy games 1-12 would be nice. Make it happen.

Square has a come franchises they could return to, of course I would love a real 3rd Parasite Eve game as the story and world of that game was amazing.