Final Fantasy Resonance is a clear tell that Square Enix still remembers how the good Final Fantasy entries play out. It is also coming to PC, and fans of the franchise have pointed out that it is based on a dead mobile game with gacha mechanics called Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. This is quite coincidental with the current push for Stop Killing Games to effectively remove games as a service altogether, which is a very good thing for gamers in the end. If those games are made, then they should never go offline forever, they have to live in our hands.
Final Fantasy Resonance is coming
And for people who has been waiting for 25 years of the series to be great again, Final Fantasy Resonance is back at it with a new turn based action system. It seems clearly inspired by Octopath Traveller, and it might actually end up being the Octopath Traveller battle system, as much as I love the Active Time Battle system that was pioneered by the series, and then discarded for some baffling reason, something new to the series is okay as long as it is a single game.
Depending on the success of the game, perhaps they might start implementing ideas like this into mainline instead of always repeating the same derivative action RPG formula that people are getting bored of. After the failure of Final Fantasy 16 in sales, it is still baffling that they continue to push with old ideas from 25 years ago that aren’t even original. The future of Final Fantasy is on figuring out a wholly unique turn based system the defines the series from now on, while I believe that Final Fantasy Resonance won’t be the game to do that, maybe in the future someone smart will pull it off.
