Fantasy Baseball

A reboot that passes the eye test, but falls short of home plate on the things that really matter.

The latest patch for MMORPG Final Fantasy 14 brings an end to Dawntrail's relic weapons, allied society, and Hildebrand quests

I think my favourite thing about the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy so far is the specific ways in which the developers at Square Enix inject nostalgia. The games launched to date - Remake and Rebirth - manage to nod warmly towards aspects of the original RPG without it ever feeling trite. You can see it in so many aspects of the way the games are curated: the way certain musical sequences are teased as motifs, and then brought in, full-throated, for certain boss fights; the redesigns of (in)famous monsters, and how certain major enemies are deployed in slightly remixed ways for maximum effect

When asked why turn-based RPGs are having a resurgence, Final Fantasy Resonance director says, "A lot of us creators who had grown up playing turn-based games are now creating games ourselves."

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation is a while away. In the meantime, sink your teeth into these massive JRPGs that will hold you over until FF7R Part 3 is out