{"id":725833,"date":"2026-06-09T19:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/725833\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T19:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:46:10","slug":"gorgeous-new-hd-2d-final-fantasy-rpg-remakes-mobile-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/725833\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorgeous New HD-2D Final Fantasy RPG Remakes Mobile Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Final Fantasy Resonance is a big surprise. Square Enix is billing it as the franchise\u2019s first HD-2D entry, and it looks as retro and stunning as you\u2019d expect. But it\u2019s also technically a port of an existing mobile gacha game called Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. Will it really be any good? According to Square Enix, yes. The RPG publisher is calling it a \u201cconsole-quality\u201d experience in the mold of last year\u2019s excellent Octopath Traveler 0 remake<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinal Fantasy Resonance is based on the first story arc of the mobile game\u00a0Final Fantasy Brave Exvius,\u201d wrote Square Enix in its press release for the newly announced game. \u201cFar from just a direct port, it has been refined and extensively rebuilt as a full-fledged console-quality RPG experience.\u201d It\u2019ll be out October 22 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X\/S, PC, Switch, and Switch 2 for $50. Unlike its free-to-play predecessor, the new adaptation is ditching the gacha elements.<\/p>\n

Beyond that, it\u2019s hard to know just exactly how different Resonance will be from its source material. The publisher is calling it a \u201ccelebration of classic and modern Final Fantasy that evokes the beloved titles of yesteryear.\u201d One way it does that is by letting you summon iconic characters from other games, like Final Fantasy VII\u2018s Cloud Strife and Final Fantasy VI\u2018s Terra Branford. Oh, Final Fantasy X\u2018s Tidus will be there too, alongside chocobos, airships, and espers, each rendered as classic sprite pixel art reminiscent of the SNES era.<\/p>\n

The game looks incredible and it\u2019s a turn-based RPG. Can Square Enix deliver on the brand-new experience being promised in the trailer above?<\/p>\n

The game it\u2019s based on, Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, which first released in Japan back in 2015, would let players pay to summon random characters of varying rarity and power levels. It follows a knight named Rain who sets out on a journey to help a woman trapped in a crystal. Some of the art and music received praise, while the padded and grindy gameplay did not. Presumably, Final Fantasy Resonance can address those shortcomings by keeping all of the cool 16-bit nostalgia and ripping out all of the junk.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s essentially what Square Enix did with Octopath Traveler 0, a remake of anther one of its less-than-spectacular explorations of mobile gaming. While fans feared it would feel like a shallow mobile experience, the overhauled game ended up being a very meaty RPG experience that was one of 2025\u2019s more surprising delights<\/a>. I am hoping, hoping, HOPING Final Fantasy Resonance\u00a0falls into a similar camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy Resonance is a big surprise. Square Enix is billing it as the franchise\u2019s first HD-2D entry,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,261983,261984,261985,61],"class_list":["post-725833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-final-fantasy-brave-exvius","tag-final-fantasy-resonance","tag-jrpg","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}