They’ve got you covered as well with a new option called Trial Mode. If you’re a hardcore Final Fantasy fan who’s unhappy about Square Enix making the game easier, don’t worry. 'We overhauled the game balance so that it would be easier for players - closer to the feel of a classic Final Fantasy title.' 2. 'We actually got help from Hiroyuki Ito, who worked on the game design for previous Final Fantasy titles,' Kato said. In response to this, Square looked to more senior staff members for support. It was a big departure from the classic system.'Įven within this new style, however, many players struggled to progress in Final Fantasy 12. 'In other games, you would go into battle suddenly, whereas in Final Fantasy 12 you saw enemies as you moved through the field. 'One of the biggest challenges we faced in Final Fantasy 12 was to ditch the classic random encounter system that we had,' he explained.

Kato believes part of this was due to presenting a new approach to combat and exploration that fans of the series weren’t used to. Game Balanceįinal Fantasy 12 was a difficult game. Polygon recently had a chance to speak with Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Ageproducer Hiroaki Kato, who walked us through the four major improvements that this version of the game contains. The HD remaster is subtitled The Zodiac Age, and as that suggests, it will be based on the International Zodiac Job System version of the game. The publisher released an updated version of the game, titled Final Fantasy 12 International Zodiac Job System, in Japan in 2007, but it was never ported West. Fans have a lot of reasons to be excited for Square Enix’s upcoming HD remaster of Final Fantasy 12, not least of all that the massive game hasn’t been widely available since its 2006 release.

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