Metal Gear and Final Fantasy have a lot in common. That may seem untrue on the surface, but both have had 25th anniversary celebrations in the last week, and the former series had an “Essential Collection” released four years ago. Now, Square Enix is planning to release their own collection of Final Fantasy games, and it has quite a bit of content in it.
Each game in the collection sports new disc art courtesy of Yoshitaka Amano.
The Final Fantasy 25th Anniversary Collection will be released on December 18 for 35,000 yen in Japan. The collection includes the first thirteen main entries in the Final Fantasy franchise with brand new disc art from Yoshitaka Amano, as well as other goodies, such as a music album and an in-game item for Final Fantasy XIV. The full contents of the package are as follows:
- Final Fantasy (PS1, 1 CD)
- Final Fantasy II (PS1, 1 CD)
- Final Fantasy III (PSP, 1 UMD)
- Final Fantasy IV (PS1, 1 CD)
- Final Fantasy V (PS1, 1 CD)
- Final Fantasy VI (PS1, 1 CD)
- Final Fantasy VII: International Edition (PS1, 4 CD’s)
- Final Fantasy VIII (PS1, 4 CD’s)
- Final Fantasy IX (PS1, 4 CD’s)
- Final Fantasy X (PS2, 1 DVD)
- Final Fantasy XI: Vana’Diel Collection 2 (PS2, 1 DVD)
- Final Fantasy XII (PS2, 1 DVD)
- Final Fantasy XIII (PS3, 1 Blu-Ray)
- A special disc featuring videos that celebrate the series’ 25th anniversary
- A visual art collection, titled Crystal ArtWorks
- A two-disc album of select music from the series
- An item code for Mogu Mogu Earrings in Final Fantasy XIV
- A miniature replica of Yoshitaka Amano’s 25th anniversary art
While the price is quite hefty, there’s a lot of content on offer here: every main entry in the Final Fantasy series, for one. Buyers should find a good value on their hands come December.
Source: StickTwiddlers
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It’s really weird that FF7 is the only International Edition. I mean, if none of them were the director’s cut, that would be one thing… but to include only one when with most of the titles, the International version was the definitive version… well. It’s strange. My best guess is they wanted full Japanese versions for each game but would it have been so hard to either switch back the language tracks or include both…?
A bit disappointed with this, personally.
It doesn’t make much sense to me either. Also: why the PS1 versions of FF1, FF2, and FF4? They already have the PSP version of FF3 in the collection; it would’ve been more “seamless” when playing in order if they had instead included the PSP versions of those three games, so the first four games would be on the same platform. Plus, the PSP versions have more content and sleeker graphics.