Final Fantasy Resonance is a retooling of Remaining Fantasy Courageous Exvius, a gacha sport that Sq. Enix shut down in 2024. The sport featured a number of characters from throughout the RPG collection’ historical past, but it surely additionally had a handful of actual pop stars make visitor appearances as summonable items, together with Katy Perry, Addison Rae, and maybe most famously, Ariana Grande. So as a result of I’m homosexual and annoying, once I sat down to speak about Resonance with producer Keisuke Nakashima and director Hiroto Furuya, I needed to ask if Ms. Glinda herself could be exhibiting up within the new sport. Sorry arianators, it appears like she, together with a number of different characters from Courageous Exvius, gained’t be making an look this time round.
In response to Nakashima, the staff at Sq. Enix’s Group Asano, which can be chargeable for video games like Octopath Traveler, Triangle Strategy, and Bravely Default, has curated a listing of “visions,” or help characters from earlier Remaining Fantasy video games that act as secondary occasion members in Resonance, moderately than bringing again the over 2000 that Courageous Exvius had when it was shut down in 2024. When deciding which characters would make an look in Resonance, Nakashima tells Kotaku that the staff checked out skills, stability, and persona. So whereas a lot of the collection’ protagonists are exhibiting up, there are additionally a handful of secondary characters to be discovered alongside the best way, and that’s it. The staff has no plans to develop that record sooner or later with any extra content material or DLC.
“Though this can be a Remaining Fantasy title, we’re a part of Group Asano,” Nakashima tells Kotaku by means of a translator. “And so, we even have been working with members of Group Asano for suggestions and in addition the overall tradition throughout the staff. One factor that Group Asano titles prioritize is that, we need to be sure that the core expertise is the very best they might probably be. So as a substitute of fascinated by DLC and extra content material from the get-go, we’re making an attempt to place all of our dev time into ensuring that the bottom sport is the very best it may be.”
Although I used to be fairly positive I already knew the reply, I requested particularly if Grande’s characters, which included four summonable units primarily based on a few of her seems to be in music movies and album artwork, could be making a return, Nakashima mentioned, “Sadly no.”
“It’s additionally a part of the worldview, you recognize?” he says. “Ariana Grande’s character wouldn’t match throughout the vibe that we’ve created for Remaining Fantasy Resonance.”
Resonance is coming to Swap, Swap 2, PS5, PC, and Xbox Collection X/S on October 22.