Final Fantasy Resonance: HD-2D Rebuild of a Mobile Gacha Game

Final Fantasy Resonance is being billed as the franchise’s first HD-2D entry and, unexpectedly, it’s a port of the mobile gacha game Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. Square Enix says the new release is based on the mobile title’s first story arc but has been refined and extensively rebuilt as a full‑fledged, console‑quality RPG.

The game will launch October 22 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PC, Switch, and Switch 2 for $50, and it drops the gacha elements of the free‑to‑play original. Players can summon iconic characters such as Cloud Strife, Terra Branford and Tidus, and explore chocobos, airships and espers rendered in sprite pixel art that evokes the SNES era.

Resonance is presented as a turn‑based RPG. Brave Exvius first released in Japan in 2015 and follows a knight named Rain who sets out to help a woman trapped in a crystal; its art and music were praised while its gameplay was criticized as padded and grindy.

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