

For those of you who also have not given it a try as of yet, I whole-heartedly recommend it. It offers a fun minigame that’s entirely optional, yet provides hours of enjoyable playtime as a game-spanning sidequest that even offers substantial benefits to the main gameplay should you decide to pursue it. My delayed verdict is that it’s brilliant. Besides, it’s actually quite intuitive and fun once you get past the tedious tutorial.Īt the risk of being proclaimed a fake FFVIII squad member, this Remaster is the first time I’ve attempted to play Triple Triad, the card minigame. For all the criticism the Junction system gets, you can’t deny that it was a creative step out of the ordinary.

The gameplay is still the perfect balance of the quintessential classic Final Fantasy experience and innovative new mechanics.

The story is still the heartfelt exploration of trauma and loneliness hidden behind the veneer of an angsty teen romance that receives an unfair amount of flak (as if JRPG plots aren’t just like that in general). The setting is still the strange mishmash of outlandish sci-fi fantasy and a mundane 90s aesthetic that I adore. This will give players more incentive to keep adventuring through the world of Vana'diel.FINAL FANTASY VIII Remastered_20190901213446īeneath the graphical makeover, it’s still the game I know and have loved since before I was old enough to play a game on my own. Besides the storyline expansions, development will also occur to add more character growth to the game's job system and to increase the storage options already available in the Final Fantasy MMO. In the same greetings, Matsui also stated that the team is planning to periodically expand The Voracious Resurgence arc all throughout 2021. RELATED: Final Fantasy 11 Mobile Game Development Shuts Down This included the all-new Voracious Resurgence storyline, the modified Mandragora Mania event, several in-game seasonal activities, and updates to Ambuscade and Odyssey. However, Matsui was proud to share that the Final Fantasy 11 team was able to produce no small amount of content for its player base while on lockdown. In his holiday salutations shared in the game's site, Matsui brought to light the challenges the whole team faced as they adapted to a new work-from-home environment, even lamenting cancelling in-person events as other game developers have had to during the pandemic. With a new story arc just released in 2020, Final Fantasy 11's producer Akihiko Matsui has recently mentioned in his New Year's greetings that players can expect story expansions and more will be implemented in 2021. 19 years after its launch, Square Enix's long-time MMORPG Final Fantasy 11 is still alive and kicking.
