A tech demo of Grin's cancelled Final Fantasy project codenamed Fortress has apparently appeared on Youtube.
RPG Site says: "Ever since evidence leaked of a cancelled Western-developed Final Fantasy XII spin-off, online conversation about a potential Western take on the series has been intense. The talk is even referenced in recent Square Enix release Deus Ex: The Fall, where an optional email viewable on a computer declares the latest FF deserves to be Game of the Year 2027 - "Giving it back to a Japanese developer was the right move," the email winks.
When RPG Site got a chance to interview Final Fantasy Brand Director & Producer Shinji Hashimoto earlier this month we asked him his opinion on a potential East-meets-West development - and he's still clear that he - and the company - haven't ruled it out entirely."
They'll do a Capcom, be cheap b******* and get a crappy dev to do it.
Even still they think the solution to their problems lie in the west but they don't. I feel like they don't want to admit theirs a problem with themselves and what they've been doing lately (typical Japanese company, too proud to admit their in the wrong) and would rather try to blame other things. Like now...trying to make it seem like it's because their games aren't western enough even though they've been letting western devs influence their own games for years....probably why FF13 and other games from them have sucked so much
It will however likely sabotage it.
Nevermind that Square Enix doesn't even know what the "final" in Final Fantasy even means.
Not only was Grin's ill-fated Fortress on track to be one of the biggest Final Fantasy games ever but, as Associate Producer Linda Dahlberg explained in the latest issue of Play UK, it was also going to be quite different from what fans have come to expect from the series.
Studio GRIN a game company that teamed up with Square Enix to do a project that was going to be a game called: Fortress. Fortress was going to be a game similar to Final Fantasy XII. However, Square Enix reclaimed the project without paying GRIN, due to concerns over the quality of the work.
We already have 3 final fantasy titles with the same style as fortress- FFXI, XII and XIV
... they should scrounge up what's left and make a FFXII-2. Please?
Lame, I'm glad this was canceled.
Its from grin so it would have sucked.
Looks good, great in fact, but nothing that says Final Fantasy.
FFXI maybe...