Throughout Sony’s March State of Play presentation, Sq. Enix debuted two new video games, confirmed off gameplay trailers for 2 extra, and fully ignored the 2 video games most individuals have been trying ahead to.
Forward of its launch on March fifteenth, Stranger of Paradise Closing Fantasy Origin is getting its third and remaining demo. The unfathomably long-titled recreation (that has been shortened to an equally unwieldy SOPFFO) is an motion RPG created in collaboration with Nioh developer Group Ninja. SOPFFO is a darker, bloodier re-imagining of the primary Closing Fantasy recreation from the angle of the villain, Garland. The sport’s grimdark, Chaos-obsessed protagonist and its use of Frank Sinatra’s 1969 hit “My Approach” has endeared SOPFFO to Closing Fantasy diehards desirous to what different weirdness the sport comprises. In the course of the State of Play presentation, Sq. Enix revealed glimpses of latest jobs Garland can study and introduced the brand new demo which is out there now.
Sq. Enix additionally confirmed off new gameplay from Forspoken, the isekai RPG developed by Luminous Productions. Within the gameplay trailer, Frey squares off in opposition to quite a few baddies utilizing her speaking energy bracelet and a few souped-up sneakers that give her a cool parkour-like double leap. Forspoken was delayed by 5 months from its Might twenty third launch date citing the necessity to “focus all our efforts on polishing the game.” It launches on October eleventh.
Scorching on the heels of Triangle Technique, Sq. Enix premiered one other excessive fantasy three warring nations ways RPG The DioField Chronicle. Billed as a real-time tactical battle technique recreation, The DioField Chronicle boasts character designers from Closing Fantasy XII and XIII and sound design from Sport of Thrones composer Ramin Djawadi. Although no particular launch date was introduced, The DioField Chronicle is slated for launch later this 12 months.
Sony ended its presentation with yet one more new recreation from Sq. Enix — Valkyrie Elysium. It’s the latest entry within the Valkyrie collection that debuted on PlayStation 22 years in the past with Valkyrie Profile. It’s an action-RPG that takes place in a fantasy world the place Ragnarok looms. Like The DioField Chronicle, Valkyrie Elysium can also be scheduled for a launch in 2022.
Surprisingly (or maybe not so surprisingly) the Sq. Enix portion of this State of Play, with a said concentrate on Japanese-developed video games, didn’t characteristic any information on Closing Fantasy VII Remake 2 or Closing Fantasy XVI — the 2 most anticipated video games from the developer. Sq. Enix did simply launch FFVIIR’s side-story DLC Intergrade in June of final 12 months so possibly it wants extra respiratory room earlier than it drops any information on the remake’s second entry. However the Closing Fantasy builders did say extra information on XVI could be forthcoming in Spring 2022, which is technically now-ish.
Spring doesn’t formally begin for one more 11 days within the northern hemisphere so we could have to attend till then.