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Final Fantasy 30th anniversary event brings small game announcements, FF themed wine

Got £700 to spare? How about some Final Fantasy branded wine...?

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Today is Final Fantasy 7's 20th anniversary and this December will mark Final Fantasy's 30th anniversary - and so Square Enix Japan took some time out today to announce a bunch of FF related stuff to celebrate the two events.

The announcements were typically eclectic for Square Enix Japan, ranging from a £700 bottle of Final Fantasy Wine (no, really) to more detail on FF15's DLC schedule and from an FF14-themed TV show called 'Daddy of Light' to the release date for Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age, AKA FF12 HD Remaster - that's July, by the way.

We've wrapped up the various news from the event important and bizarre alike below in a bullet point form below, via the efforts of RPG Site and Nova Crystallis, who followed the Japanese-only, no live stream event live. First, the video game news...

In Final Fantasy 15:

  • Final Fantasy 15 will get some superhero-themed exosuit costumes for the main cast as part of a DLC pack that's hitting on February 21.
  • Episode Gladio is FF15's first major DLC and sees you play as Gladiolus. It's part of the season pass, will launch on March 28th. He'll be joined by Cor Leonis, a side character in FF15 who fans quite liked and found to be under-developed.
  • The second major story DLC is Episode Prompto (guess who you play as!) and will launch in June - no further details as yet.

Images of the exosuits and Episode Galdio are below.

In Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age:

  • FF12's HD Remaster which features significant content never before released in Western territories will launch on July 11th in the West and July 13th in Japan.
  • Beloved FF12 'leading man' Balthier will be added as a DLC Champion Summon to last year's World of Final Fantasy to celebrate FF12's imminent release

In Final Fantasy 14:

  • Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida reiterated the June 20th release date for Stormblood, FF14's latest expansion.
  • There's a live action FF14 TV show 'Daddy of Light', that is based on a blog and novel. It tells the heart-warming story of a father and son who bond in new ways by playing FF14.

In Final Fantasy 7 Remake:

  • Square released a first new 'key visual' for the game - or basically, one of their very pretty CG artworks.

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Other smaller or weirder bits announced at the event included:

  • A Final Fantasy fashion line-up that looks about as gaudy as you'd expect.
  • Several FF music announcements including new Distant Worlds orchestra concerts worldwide and FF15 Piano Collections and 'Brass de Bravo' band concerts in Japan.
  • A tie-up with Cup Noodle, who featured heavily as product placement in Final Fantasy 15. This collaboration manifests in the real world instead - there'll be cup noodle flavors based off the villains of each FF game and a fork to eat them with that has the hilt of a sword. The handle specifically resembles Cloud's Ultima Weapon from FF7, so... Ultima Fork?
  • Some Final Fantasy Wine. There's a $1000 version, which includes Swarovski crystal studded glasses and an expensive wine, or a much cheaper version where there are two types of wine - Ifrit Rogue and Shiva Blanc - makes sense.
  • Special FF-themed cakes that'll be on sale for around $35 featuring a Moogle, Chocobo and Cactuar.
  • Final Fantasy: Lost Strangers, a new manga series for Japan.
  • A Japan-only Final Fantasy 14-themed escape room. Which sounds pretty cool, honestly. Escape rooms are great and FF14 is pretty good.
  • Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan will have gigantic FF7-themed Snow Sculptures.
  • A variety of character cross-overs in games like Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia (Japan only for now), Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, Mobius Final Fantasy and Itadaki Street.
  • A Final Fantasy Exhibition will take place in Japan in 2018.

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Alex has been writing about video games for decades, but first got serious in 2006 when he founded genre-specific website RPG Site. He has a particular expertise in arcade & retro gaming, hardware and peripherals, fighters, and perhaps unsurprisingly, RPGs.

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