{"id":86142,"date":"2026-07-17T12:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86142"},"modified":"2026-07-17T12:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:45:26","slug":"final-fantasy-resonance-trailer-imagines-a-world-without-final-fantasy-7-changing-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86142","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy Resonance Trailer Imagines A World Without Final Fantasy 7 Changing Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Final Fantasy games have been rendered in 3D engines for far longer than they have in 2D, but the new trailer for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/final-fantasy-resonance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Final Fantasy: Resonance<\/a> wants you to imagine a world where Square Enix&#8217;s risky 1997 gambit never happened. What would Final Fantasy look like if it stuck to its 2D pixel-art guns? We&#8217;d probably have gotten the HD-2D aesthetic a lot sooner, but regardless, this reimagining of the mobile gacha game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/final-fantasy-brave-exvius\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fantasy Brave Exvius<\/a> continues to look stunning:<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/youtu.be\/ftCvnEE6rfI  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the new trailer doesn&#8217;t outright say it, it heavily suggests that viewers should use their imagination to dream up a world without a 3D Final Fantasy 7. It was the first game in the series\u00a0to shift to 3D graphics, which were in their infancy back then. It was a high-stakes move for Square&#8211;which had not yet merged with Enix&#8211;and it required a shift to CD-ROM so that the idea of pre-rendered backgrounds and high-fidelity audio could be realized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The budget was also enormous, and Square was essentially betting its entire future on a single project that required its developers to quickly learn how to operate in a 3D space and scale up to meet the demands of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final Fantasy games have been rendered in 3D engines for far longer than they have in 2D, but the new trailer for Final Fantasy: Resonance wants you to imagine a world where Square Enix&#8217;s risky 1997 gambit never happened. What would Final Fantasy look like if it stuck to its 2D pixel-art guns? We&#8217;d probably&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":86144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86145,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86142\/revisions\/86145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}