The creator of Final Fantasy wants to revive a game for Square Enix. No, not the one you’re thinking of. Not that one either

If you think about games that Square Enix might want to revive, your mind might go to myths like Blue Dragon, Sword of Mana, Drakengard, Lost Odyssey or Grandia. Well, Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of Final Fantasy, has said that if it were up to him, none of these would return to the spotlight, but rather a very specific mobile game that you probably have never heard of.

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The game in question is called Terra Battle, and it was born on October 9, 2014 for iOS and Android, with an impressive team behind it: Sakaguchi in production, illustrations by Kimihiko Fujisaka (The Last Story) and Nobuo Uematsu himself in the soundtrack. It was a very Japanese RPG, with touches of both collectible cards and puzzles.

Note: it was successful. Successful enough, at least, to launch a sequel (which lasted only a year and never received love from the public). On June 30, 2020, Terra Battle was suspended and since then no one had spoken about it until Sakaguchi mentioned it as his next goal to revive after releasing the game he is currently preparing, Fantasian Neo Dimension, a remake of the iPhone title that he produced and wrote the script for in 2021. The gamer equivalent of scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Terra Battle reached 1.800.000 downloads and came close to a console version, which they would have made if it had reached two million. So now you know: if you want to see remakes of legendary games, forget about it for now. First, the mobile versions. Then, we’ll see. In this world of continuous remakes and reboots, it would be strange to expect much more.

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