The "final" Final Fantasy

[black orb]

>>> The Final FF.. The End of the legacy.. It better be the best game ever in history..
Seems unlikely though..

[chionos]

Final Fantasy: The Expendables

[Del Murder]

I'd like a throwback type game like FFIX was all those years ago, but now even better. I'd also like it to involve the traditional job system and FFX-2's ATB battle system.

[chionos]

I'd like a throwback type game like FFIX was all those years ago, but now even better. I'd also like it to involve the traditional job system and FFX-2's ATB battle system.

That's pretty much what I was going to say, and then decided to post something silly.

I would also like this game to exist on consoles, not on iOS or 4DS or any other such bulltrout.

[Cloudane]

Last time they did this it was a resounding success, saved the company and they ended up doing another 13 plus sequels and spinoffs.

But anyway, hmm...

The game is set on Earth, current day (whenever it might be), at Square-Enix headquarters. You are playing new employee Sonny Dae, an artificial intelligence specialist. Your task is to research player interaction and enjoyment using a special AI routine called the Creative Intelligence Documenter (CID), which plays through each iteration of the soon-to-be-retired FF series and documents its reactions. The objective is to see what made the series so successful so that the formula can be integrated into new ventures or sold on.

However there was something that you didn't account for. The complexity of CID reaches such a level that it becomes self-aware and with an intelligence that has never been dreamt possible. It is able to time-travel back to 1987 where it injects iterations of itself across all the Final Fantasy games and integrates itself into the story.

In the present day it has become sympathetic to the fate of the people in each game now that there will be no more sequels or remakes, and via "Cid" (reviving him where necessary) it passes on its intelligence into the key characters from each game. Along with itself, it is able to grant them an artificial form in the real world, so they can plead with their creators to make more FF games.

S-E, however, insists that the time of Final Fantasy is over. Sonny is given the task of retiring these old characters, who led by CID, promptly escape into the world.

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