• Final Fantasy I, II, and III to receive new novelizations

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    Wolf Kanno
    Published on 09-18-2012 08:22 AM
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    Have you ever played a Final Fantasy game and thought that it would make a pretty great book? Well dream no longer folks, because the first three Final Fantasy games look like they're set for novelization.


    I wonder if the Invisible Lady will be featured...

    This is a perfect opportunity for Square Enix's writing team to flex their creative muscles. FFI has long been the subject of entertaining Let's Plays, mostly due to its lack of characterisation and paperthin plot. With a novelization, Square Enix can stand to build upon the first gem in their crown and give us a somewhat familiar tale to enjoy. Let's not forget how good FFII and FFIII were either, though!

    Square Enix has a habit of relegating these kinds of things to Japan-only, but here's hoping they make an appearance for Western audiences soon. In the mean time, better start asking your translator friends for some help!

    Source: Andriasang
    This article was originally published in forum thread: Final Fantasy I, II, and III to recieve new novelizations started by Wolf Kanno View original post
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      Jiro - 09-18-2012, 01:46 PM
      Keen to see how they handle something like this. Have they done novelisations in the past? I don't know how well the transition from game to book will be; I mean, what is there in fiction they can't already implement in a game format?
    1. Wolf Kanno's Avatar
      Wolf Kanno - 09-19-2012, 05:04 AM
      Back in the day, FFII and FFIII both got novelizations by Kenji Terada, one of the head writers at Square. When they released the DS version of FFIV and the The After Years Cell phone titles, both games received novelizations as well, though they are pretty similar to the game's format from what I've heard.

      Not to mention the novels that accompanied Advent Children, FFXIII, and the manga adaption of FFXII. So it's not really anything new.

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