Square’s New Passion: Ports
Last weekend, at the Playstation Experience event in Las Vegas, it was rumored Square might have a big announcement waiting. Hopes went up as the host walked off the stage to make room for the debut of a new trailer from the company. The lights dimmed, the screen lit up, and the Square-Enix logo faded away….and then the Final Fantasy VII logo appeared, resulting in massive cheers from the audience of Square fans, who as anyone following games knows, have been demanding a remake of this game for well over a decade. Then the other shoe dropped: it turned out they were watching a trailer for a port, with the same blocky graphics from 1997, the same embarrassingly bad translations, and the same Guy Who Are Sick hiding in a Midgar pipe. The president of Square happily skipped out from behind the curtain to admire his cheering fanbase. By this point the grins were all gone, but he didn’t seem to notice. There was no trailer for the Steam port
