Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster Games Coming to Switch and PS4 in Spring 2023 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 18 December 2022 / 2,439 Views
Square Enix announced the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster games will launch for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in Spring 2023.
Final Fantasy I, Final Fantasy II, Final Fantasy III, Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy V, and Final Fantasy VI will be available to purchase in a bundle or separately. Standard and Final Fantasy 35th Anniversary Edition physical edition will be available exclusively on the Square Enix Store.
Read details on the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster games below:
Final Fantasy
This is the ironically named game that started it all. You take control of the Warriors of Light, off on a journey to defeat four fiends and restore peace to the world.
So many of the elements of the series that we’ve come to know and love make their debut right here in this very first entry: a massive world full of mystery, some iconic monster designs and that incredible music.
Final Fantasy II
The second game in the series introduces a new world, new characters and something that would become a trademark of the series: innovation.
The story focuses on the conflict between the hostile Empire of Palamecia and the rebel resistance. A small group of heroes is all that stands between the world and ruin.
Final Fantasy II demonstrates the developers’ willingness to push their boundaries and try new things. For example, rather than sticking to the predictable, the game features a proficiency system in which characters skill with weapons and abilities increase the more they used them.
Fun fact: this is the Final Fantasy game that introduced the world to chocobos! Now that’s a legacy.
Final Fantasy III
When darkness falls and the land is robbed of light, four young heroes are chosen by the crystals to head off an exciting journey across a vast and hostile land.
This critically-acclaimed entry in the series innovated with a flexible job system, which lets characters change their roles in combat at any time. Many of the most famous elements of Final Fantasy started here too—for example, it was the first to introduce summons, including series mainstays Bahamut and Shiva!
Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy IV delivers one of the richest and most powerful stories in the series. It’s filled with characters and scenarios that fans continue to love to this day.
It focuses on the dark knight Cecil, who finds himself stripped of his position and rank when he questions his king’s increasingly troubling orders. When he’s sent on a simple delivery mission with his friend Kain, the shocking events that follow send him and a group of allies on an incredible journey of betrayal, love and redemption.
This is the first game to feature the Active Time Battle (ATB) system, which combines turn-based and real-time elements to create fast-paced and strategic combat.
Final Fantasy V
The world of Final Fantasy V is on the verge of destruction because the elemental crystals that bring life and prosperity to the lands have lost their power.
The only hope lies in four heroes: Bartz, Princess Lenna of Castle Tycoon, pirate Faris and the mysterious Galuf. Driven together by fate, they set off on a quest that to save the planet itself.
As well as refining the ATB system, Final Fantasy V expands your strategic options massively through a greatly expanded job system, which let you customize your characters with 22 different jobs.
Final Fantasy VI
Final Fantasy VI is a game that’s beloved by fans and critics alike.
That’s partly thanks to its incredible setting and story. It’s set in a land where magic has disappeared, and humanity has instead turned to iron, gunpowder, steam and other technology.
Actually, it would be more accurate to say that magic is mostly gone – a young woman enslaved by the evil Empire still has the power. When she encounters a powerful ancient being called an Esper, she sets off a chain of events that will have epic and terrible consequences.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Physical. No additional downloads on Switch please.
What is the size of the PC version?
And, the scalpers are already selling these on ebay for over $300. I'm really glad that Square Enix printed enough copies for "the fans".
Hope it's cheap for the physical bundle hai
Square is releasing Physical for both Switch and PS4.....however its limited and exclusive to their store :(
https://store.na.square-enix-games.com/en_US/product/810908/final-fantasy-i-vi-collection?_ga=2.217894486.19609489.1671424920-1705102667.1670894896
Excellent news, I am looking forward to going through another play through on this lineup. SE definitely knows where their audience is for this. By the time this launches in the spring the PS4/5 and Switch install base combined will be over 280M+. Good on them for releasing these on platforms that will actually buy their games and not boycott them.
Who's boycotting them, and where is PC in all of this, I thought they were releasing there as well? .
It have already been released on the PC, you can go and buy it.
I know, I was just wondering why they left that deet out there, as well as the boycotting part.
They are announcing the game will launch in new platforms, they also didn't mention it have launched on smartphone as well. Did you buy it?
Somebody is boycotting their games? Who?
I purchase Square games on Nintendo and PS and Xbox, but will not be getting them anymore on Xbox. Purchasing Crisis Core and not being able to get VII remake makes no sense on Xbox. I'm not going to purchase part 2 of something if part 3 and part 1 won't be available. It's frustrating not knowing if I should begin an Xbox collection of Square games if I'm not going to be able to complete it. It's better for me to just no longer double or triple dip anymore.
...but yeah. I'm no longer purchasing Square games on the Xbox platform.
i do not think that SE definitely knows where their audience is for this, i went to website and completely sold out on switch and PS4
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