Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster - To launch on February 23

Destructoid saw an official announce for the release of Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster.

Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster will launch on February 23

The last of the announced Pixel Remasters arrives near the end of the month

The last of the six previously announced Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters has a firm release date. Square Enix confirms that the Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster will go live for Steam and mobile on Feb. 23, 2022.

With Final Fantasy VI, Square Enix closes out the gradual rollout of the retro remasters it announced last year. The first Final Fantasy up through the fifth have all been brought to both Steam and mobile stores, though no console plans have been announced just yet.

Square Enix had previously moved its plans for the last Pixel Remaster into February 2022 to allow some extra time for polish. The news today came with some screenshots of the Pixel Remaster, so you can see how it turned out:



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I don't get all these FF remasters. We have Remasters and Pixel Remasters, is that right?

Originally Posted by henriquejr
I don't get all these FF remasters. We have Remasters and Pixel Remasters, is that right?

Yeah, it's confusing.

This should help understand, it's from their Q&A:

Q: What was the reason you decided to develop the FINAL FANTASY pixel remaster series?

A: FINAL FANTASY to FINAL FANTASY VI have previously been released on numerous different platforms, but the content of each release and the period in which they came out varied greatly between titles, so there were not many opportunities for fans to play them all together in a consistent manner. We wanted to provide an environment where it was easy for both long-time fans and FINAL FANTASY newcomers to play the original 6 titles by remastering all the games again in a consistent way.

Q: Specifically speaking, how have the graphics been remastered?

A: As the name suggests, the vast majority of the game graphics have been re-drawn in an updated 2D pixel art style. The playable characters, in particular, were re-drawn by Shibuya Kazuko, the same staff who has drawn our character sprites from the beginning of the series.

We really prioritised keeping the same feel that the original pixel sprites had but re-worked the graphics so they display clearly on modern high-resolution screens.

Q: Specifically speaking, how has the sound been remastered?

A: The BGM tracks were given new arrangements, under the full oversight of the original composer, Nobuo Uematsu. The themes we set for these arrangements were "following tradition" and "proper evolution"�, so that we did not change or damage the image fans had of the original versions. We arranged the tracks in a way that "reproduced" or "re-expressed" areas of the originals, that we were unable to achieve due to the limitations on the hardware at the time.

The sound effects were re-created by the Square Enix sound team, taking care to keep the same feel as the original versions had.

It's rather simple, actually: the pixel remasters are simply remasterings of the games as they were at launch, with no additional latter content. At least that's how I see them, I've only played the first two so far and intend to get three, five and six at some point. Based on what I experienced with the first two, I can say they played flawlessly and I had a good time with them. All that pixel recreation must have been some serious effort, I'm rather curious as to how good the fifth and sixth games will be!!

Yep the remasters were cartoonist/early 3D compared to the original Pixel graphics. They also didn't sell well so Square Enix decided to go back to the pixel graphics.

The story, DLC's and other things were changed in the different editions as well.