I'm just going to say this now, I wasn't looking forward to this conference whatsoever and Square Enix definitely didn't live up to anyone's expectations during this panel either. With a poor showcasing, little info on any of the games in particular and a majority of non English speaking staff, why even bother going on stage in the first place?
While I've never touched the series the Just Cause series definitely has a strong following and Square showed fans great footage of the game that they can look forward to.
A sequel to the cult classic Neir: @!#$%&(And I type that because I don't know what the heck that was supposed to be.) was shown briefly to fans with concept art and a look into one of the characters. With nothing more than a bit of info from the developer fans didn't really have much to go on with this.
Microsoft had already revealed the new Tomb Raider title for their X-box console so Square just really dived into the making of Lara Croft and how their graphics help give Lara more character.
With Square recently entering the mobile market, and one of the key focuses of their company now that it's helped pull them out of financial ruin, cell phone games are definitely a strong focus now. With Hitman Go, Hitman Sniper and Lara Croft Go people can now take control of Lara and Agent 47 on their mobile devices. Awesome. I wonder how much this is going to cost?
With the grand announcement of Final Fantasy VII's remake, Square also announce Final Fantasy VII for the iOS. Really? Why...? Aside from that Sony also really stole the thunder of this remake's announcement yesterday leaving Square with very little to discuss about this title besides that it's going to be a while.
Did anyone else hear the crowd before and after the announcement of Kingdom Hearts Unchained? Square managed to troll fans pretty hard with this trailer as they showed fans a pretty uninteresting looking mobile game for their phones. I swear I only heard 3 people clap after this trailer was finished.
But of course Square didn't fail to give the fans what they wanted as they immediately showed footage of the long awaited title Kingdom Hearts 3. With the last canon title coming out on the Playstation 2 fans were eager to see a continuation of the series and not another filler piece. Well all I can say is that the game looks nice... No release date though. So yeah...
I'm not even going to bother speaking about World of FF again as Square offered fans nothing interesting in this panel that wasn't already shown in Sony's.
I haven't actually played through a Star Ocean game, but seeing the capabilities in their new title Star Ocean Integrity and Faithlessness looked really nice. With a solid focus on fluid transition This game goes to be everything Final Fantasy XII should have been.
I know their is a strong following for the Dues EX series and fans watching the press conference of it won't be disappointed. The game looked fun, so there's that.
Was Project Setsuna even worth mentioning during the press conference? With little to actually talk about, Square gave use little more than a name to go with. Why...? And considering how Square is dishing out a lot of money into Final Fantasy XV, shouldn't they be focusing on making sure that's a good game to begin with? Prioritize Square Enix. Prioritize...
I was looking forward to Square giving me one thing and one things only. A release date for Final Fantasy XV. With it's production reaching a length of nearly a decade and nothing more than an upgrade to their demo, Square has been very hush hush about the project. Isn't the game slated to come out this year? Why bother making a demo without a release date in sight? Seems more like you made an alpha and wanted tester feedback. Then you shouldn't have sold it in one of your games... You had one job this E3 Square... One job...
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