The first 3D Final Fantasy?

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For some of you may or not know back in the ‘90s a year or two before Final Fantasy 7, there were rumors that Squaresoft was in development of what supposed to be FF game for the N64.

We all know Square ditched the big N for Sony because of its stubbornness regarding the use of game cartridges.

Like an old saying goes where this smoke there’s fire, well the smoke is some leaked footages of a 3D demo of supposed FF which could’ve been FF 7 for the N64.

But the truth is it’s a SGI demo containing FF 6 characters Locke, Terra and Shadow that Square showed at some developers convention that they are on the transitioning from 2D to 3D. I honestly thought of making this a full blown article but I couldn’t dig up anymore details aside from this horrendous video.

 

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yes, they made this demo in the old Silicon Graphics workstations presumably to demonstrate what was possible in the Ultra 64. They even published articles about it in Nintendo Power. I was super hyped for it back in the day since it implied a sequel to Final Fantasy 6, but it really was nothing more than demo, as far as I can tell. And yeah, Sony strolled in with their CD based console, which allowed them to store 10-15 times the data per disc for the cutscenes, and the rest is history.

 

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I had never actually heard about this demo before so that's pretty neat.

In some ways it would have been interesting to see what become of FF in the alternate future where they released the series on the N64 as well, but I also feel like we'd have seen much smaller experiences due to how much data the n64 was capable of holding.

Isn't that a huge part of the reason that RPGs are sort of hard to find on that system? Because modern RPGs (for the time) would have held far too much data and old-school (for the time) RPGs would have been seen as out-dated.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

For some of you may or not know back in the ‘90s a year or two before Final Fantasy 7, there were rumors that Squaresoft was in development of what supposed to be FF game for the N64.

We all know Square ditched the big N for Sony because of its stubbornness regarding the use of game cartridges.

Like an old saying goes where this smoke there’s fire, well the smoke is some leaked footages of a 3D demo of supposed FF which could’ve been FF 7 for the N64.

But the truth is it’s a SGI demo containing FF 6 characters Locke, Terra and Shadow that Square showed at some developers convention that they are on the transitioning from 2D to 3D. I honestly thought of making this a full blown article but I couldn’t dig up anymore details aside from this horrendous video.

As much as this game was probably never meant to be an actual FF I am sad they've ditched chibi characters.