The whole lot’s gotta die finally, and Sq. Enix heard the loss of life knell loud and clear. Dig up an early grave as a result of the corporate’s battle royale cell sport, Remaining Fantasy VII: The First Soldier, will shut down on January 11, 2023.
Launched in November 2021, The First Soldier was Sq. Enix’s try and capitalize on the favored battle royale pattern. Suppose Fortnite, however with swords and chocobos as an alternative of simply weapons and automobiles. You created a personality adorned with outfits worn by collection faves like Cloud Strife and Tifa Lockhart, then skydived onto varied Migar maps with 74 different gamers to be the final soldier standing. I had a blast with the sport regardless of some efficiency points and its exclusivity on Android and iOS platforms. Nonetheless, it crossed a million downloads not lengthy after it launched, so there was an viewers.
Sq. Enix introduced on the sport’s official web site, a month earlier than its first anniversary, that service for The First Soldier will come to an finish in January. The weblog put up specified that the corporate couldn’t “ship the expertise that we had been hoping to and that you simply all deserve,” resulting in the sport’s unceremonious shuttering. I’m not totally positive a revive materia will work right here, y’all. Sadly, I feel this one is done-done. Permadeath bought to it.
“Though there may be solely rather less than three months till service ends, we’ll proceed to make updates throughout this time, so we hope you’ll proceed to get pleasure from Remaining Fantasy VII: The First Soldier till the very finish,” Sq. Enix stated. “We wish to thanks all for supporting us over the previous yr.”
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The group is shooketh however not essentially shocked by the announcement. Many within the tweet’s mentions noticed the writing on the wall, notably as a result of The First Soldier was mobile only. One tweeter said the “sport design labored effectively collectively,” however the efficiency points had been its “killing blow.” One other merely argued that the Avalanche gang—members like Biggs and Jessie alongside Barret and Cloud—should’ve been added to Fortnite as an alternative. Most appear to agree, although, that it might see a resurgence if it re-releases on PC.
Kotaku has reached out to Sq. Enix for remark.
This information bums me out, and never simply as a video games preservation fanatic. In my impressions a couple of days after it dropped, I known as The First Soldier an “intriguing combine” of Remaining Fantasy design and battle royale emergent gameplay that suffered for being a mobile-only launch. The small cellphone display does the sport completely no favors, making it tough to kind by means of all of the on-screen data. Couple the puny show with the occasional efficiency points—dropped frames, enter delay, and so forth.—and you’ve got a irritating albeit exhilarating free-to-play battle royale motion sport. Possibly issues would’ve been totally different had it launched on consoles and PC. However that is the timeline we dwell in, and it at all times sucks when a sport dies, irrespective of the explanation.
