When Sq. Enix’s vary of Closing Fantasy remasters for PC and cellular had been first unveiled a few years again, followers had been fast to note one thing: not solely had the sport’s conventional pixel font been changed, however they’d been changed by new, tiny little letters that had been an assault on the senses.
To recap, right here’s how dangerous the fonts had been:
Bought individually, the video games’ costs complete out to $95.94. Luckily, Steam provides a bundle possibility, but it surely solely brings them right down to $74.82, which feels a bit steep for a group of decades-old video games. It doesn’t assist that Sq. Enix has saddled all of the video games with a text font that’s each overly clear and claustrophobically compact, making it unattainable to look away from attributable to how misplaced it feels. Many, many people have remarked on the tiny, tiny font.
“My god this font is the ugliest factor I’ve ever seen in a online game,” author and podcaster Heather Anne Campbell said on Twitter. “It’s the worst of all time.”
“[Seriously] guys I’ve typography dot com open in a tab actually proper now,” wrote present YouTube man and former Kotaku video man Tim Rogers. “They received a lotta good ones on there, guys.”
With those self same video games coming to PS4 and Change later this month, Sq. Enix determined to mark the event by fixing these fonts. Or, attempting to repair them.
Amongst different new options like the flexibility to change between authentic and rearranged soundtracks, and turning off random encounters, there’s additionally a menu choice to “Change Fonts”, which “provides you the choice to change between two totally different fonts: the default font and a brand new pixel-based font that recreates the texture of the unique video games”. Which it does, in a method, but it surely’s nonetheless too small and condensed, so whereas its not as dangerous to have a look at, it’s in lots of instances very onerous to learn.
That sucks, however on the intense facet, a few of these different adjustments are welcome, together with the truth that Sq. Enix have, very quietly, restored Closing Fantasy VI’s intro credit, which had beforehand been eliminated and resulted in an eerily hole opening sequence.
The PS4 and Change variations of the remasters might be out on April 19.
