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    FINAL FANTASY Type-0 HD and FINAL FANTASY Agito

    A bit late, but to those who didn't hear it the other night.

    Type-0 has finally been officially announced for the western audiance at E3 after many years of silence and waiting. Not just that, it will be an HD version released on PS4 and XBOX ONE. Whoa!
    Along with that, they also announced the mobile game FF Agito for a western release as well. Both games used to be Japanese exclusives.
    To those confused about the titles of these games, it should be clarified that yes, they did indeed give the mobile game the original name Type-0 had before the name change out of the XIII universe (it used to be named FINAL FANTASY Agito XIII when it was first announced along with FFXIII and FF Versus XIII [now FFXV] ).

    Personally I find this pretty smart, because Agito XIII was originally planned for mobile before it jumped to PSP and became Type-0, so in essence, they managed to make the Agito they wanted to do from the start, if only in essence. Naturally both Agito and Type-0 are still entirely connected to each other.

    Anyway, we don't have much on Type-0 HD yet other than this logo:



    And this



    as an IP reminder.

    The lifting of the veil actually came at the end of the Agito trailer (wooo, we got a trailer!)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQice_T4Nio

    Like with FFXV and KHIII last year, my body wasn't ready and resulted in brief brain downtime out of pure awesome happiness. In different ways though, since XV and KHIII were a bombshell in the midst of E3 2013, even though it had been rumored a few days prior due to insider info leaking.
    With Type-0 a guy from the French SE team actually prepared fans for it in a less subtle way, lol, so it was more a question about whether that bit of news was a rumor or if the guy really did leak that info... Which he did.

    Aaaanyway, Fantastic news, and 2 fantastic games. I would have never thought they would localize Agito as well <3.

    I wonder how big Type-0 HD will be. I mean, they went from PSP to PS4 rather than to Vita. It could mean they have something huge in mind for this remaster. I don't think it'll be a complete remake, because fans have wanted the PSP Type-0 for years. The HD upscaling might be so big that they animated the game from the ground up again, like they did with KH 1.5 because they had lost the original KH1 data (true story), but I feel confident they won't alter or remove any of the old scenes from the original. It'll more likely be loads of extra material and many new scenes. It wouldn't make much sense to make the game for next gen stationary consoles when the original game was made with PSP features in mind, if there isn't a big deal of changes to fit PS4 gaming.
    Some fans are very angry about this decision though. They worry that the game will be an HD port that functions as if it was still running on PSP, meaning the controls effectively would be a dumbed down PS4 version.
    I don't think there's anything to worry about. At worst, I could see them not making this a Vita title because Vita games don't sell well, which is pretty truthful already.



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    I still believe they made this announcement due to panic, since the fan translation for Type-0 just came out 4 days ago. The trailer has no in-game English text and looks like it was put together very quickly.

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    The trailer is for Agito, not Type-0. The Type-0 bit is just the last few seconds with the announcement. The announcement was planned before the fan translation was announced to be completed, as the leak from the French SE team points out.
    E3 is also about revealing new titles or releases, so it made sense more than it could ever seem desperate. I do believe the farthest stretch would be to say SE made the announcement sooner than they originally anticipated, but they were already working on it, so when they make the announcements doesn't really matter. But because of the leak, I don't even think this is the case.

    Even if we go by the stretch, it would be the best time to make the announcement. Can't blame a company for protecting their integrity and doing what works out best for themselves. I doubt a company would think (Oh, a group of fans translated the game so now many players will play this game before ours... Yeah, let's wait another year or 2 before making the announcement so we can lose a lot of money and interest). It just seems ignorant to forget there are 2 sides in this.



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    There's been a "leak" for FF Type 0 every year. This year is no different.

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    A lot different, because it was said it'd be announced at E3. The other times it's just been information about how they had made the translation already but the word died out and nobody said anything about whether it'd come out or not. They just said that they would make it if enough people wanted it.

    On that note, I think the new CEO might be to thank for this actually happening, because since he came to SE and stated they'd start localizing more Japanese titles (basically due to fans and sales showing it's worth it, although the wording was a lot more elaborate), many games starting seeing the light outside Japan. His words were sweet nectar to my ears.



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