
Sony may have felt it was a coup to secure exclusive rights to the Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin demo, but the PlayStation 5 sampler is corrupt and basically doesn’t boot. Deputy editor Robert Ramsey has been trying to test the title today, but it won’t work – and he’s not alone, as Square Enix has admitted it’s investigating the issue:
The publisher’s said that it’s working to resolve the problem but, bizarrely, the broken client still remains available to download. We assume that PlayStation will take it down at some point, seeing as it quite literally doesn’t load.
Here’s what parody account Kaz Hirai came out of retirement to say about the matter:
Perfect.
[source twitter.com]
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Absolute chaos.
Next person who says "chaos" is banned
@ShogunRok You really, really should have called in sick this weekend. 😉
Well that explains why the lead character keeps screaming the same thing over and over while his friends are trying to engage in combat operations and would probably prefer not to draw too much attention. Here I thought to myself, “how cool they finally made a Final Fantasy with a brain damaged protagonist”, but it turns out the code is just glitched.
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The hell are they doing...
Maybe don't release a "demo" of a game that won't release for over a year. Now they get to patch the demo instead of working on it just like ff15
Thats oKAY. OScillating release dates are the norm for a real final fantasy game.
@Jayslow This is the Nioh team, they'll use feedback from it (when it works) to alter and fine tune gameplay, a process that did wonders for both Nioh and the sequel. In all likelihood we'll see another demo/technical alpha in about 6-8 months.
I'm willing to let them continue considering how much Nioh 1 and 2 improved.
I never been more second hand embarrassed to hear dialogue in a game before, can't believe the guys from the excellent Nioh games are making this. I hope they take input and do redesigns for every single character that was seen on screen.
Looks like this game has been broken since the drawing board. Terrible concept and terrible character design.
Oh, no.. Not like that.. This day was a win for Xbox.
How could they get a souls-like Final Fantasy I remake wrong? How? It looked so good in my head. It just felt nothing like Final Fantasy. It looked like just another your usual indie/fan made souls-like game.
That game, in my head, was supposed to be some kind of response to today's Xbox presentation. It just made what Xbox is going for even more stark: top-notch, unparallel quality games.
I was here expecting this demo to prove me wrong. And now this..
Playstation took a hit today. You can hate me for saying this, dislike my post, but it is the plain, hard truth. It is not a fatal wound, far from it. But it should be a wake up call. Or else, today is going to be a prelude to a turning point for the video game industry.
I mean, the game does look pretty bad, I don't know why would you want to try it...it's probably just a bunch of chaos. You need to kill chaos, but it's gotta be hard to deal with chaos since you're not sure if chaos is there. But in the shrine of chaos, chaos must be there, right? But we're there to kill chaos.
Btw, they said chaos 8 freaking times in that trailer lol
@Mintie yeah I know its Team Ninja. Just used that as a setup for my dumb joke at the end.
@Mintie Please change the terrible characters... ☹️
@vict0RGM What are you talking about? 😄 and what is this nonsense referencing in regard to their show today "It just made what Xbox is going for even more stark: top-notch, unparallel quality games."
What unparalleled quality games were they exactly?
You thinking that this game was supposed to be Sony's answer to the Xbox conference is one of the most ridiculous statements I've read this evening.
Playstation are doing just fine. The PS5 has outsold the Series X and S combined by more than 2:1 so far. They have the second iteration of PSVR deep in development. They actually have 3 fantastic next gen exclusives that you can play right now, and with Horizon Forbidden West just around the corner and God of War on the way, something tells me they're gonna be okay.
Stop being dramatic.
Haha.
Hahaha.
I figured that FF Souls game would be a waste of time, but that trailer was worse than I could have ever imagined. And the script! They were legitimately approaching self-parody with that writing.
I'm pretty satisfied with what Switch is getting at this point. I'm inclined to not trust anything coming out of S-E now if it doesn't roll with the HD-2D style.
Just pray to any and all deities that "adult" Dragon Quest somehow isn't a mess.
@vict0RGM "It just felt nothing like Final Fantasy."
I mean, what HAS felt like Final Fantasy the last ten years or so, aside from Type-0 HD and VII Remake? One of the problems with the brand is that it has no identity whatsoever. When you see the words Final Fantasy, do you expect...
an open world action-rpg where you follow
a boy banda prince and his entourage?a grimdark medieval character action game?
a souls game where a bunch of random dudebros try to kill chaos?
Even Square-Enix doesn't know what the hell Final Fantasy is at this point.
Hope chaos wins.
I was waiting for an Amano trippy-looking FF souls-like fever dream and instead got another FF(not)VII ver. 37
Welcome to the generation where even demos are released incomplete. The next logical step is to charge us to play the half baked demo.
Why the fronk was @Get2Sammyb banned?! 😓
@Ralizah I dunno. I kinda like how FF has had the "it can be anything I guess" approach since FF7. It doesn't always work, but you never know what to expect. It's a nice contrast to the familiarity of DQ.
Oof sammy baker comment removed.
@vict0RGM PlayStation definitely didn't take a hit.
Xbox can do a good job without it being at the expense of PlayStation.
It just means they're both doing fine. Which is great for everyone.
Bad experience.
Up their with Babylon Fall as one of the worst trailers from the E3/Summer of Gaming season yet…what were they thinking?
I smell huge disaster...
@Mintie I had no idea Nioh 1 &2 went thru so many changes, huh.
Hopefully they do indeed listen to community feedback and go back to the drawing board...
Wow folks are really trashing this game. I actually thought it looked pretty fun myself. Sure the dialog was pure cringe but that's almost always the case with Team Ninja games and Square games for that matter. Gameplay though I thought looked alright if a little basic. I'm looking forward to seeing more.
See? Chaos needs to be stopped! CHAOS!
Probably for the best!
Reportedly fixed now
Well, I tried it the other day.
It looked dated, played dated, and was boring.
Overall, I see that this is just not for me. I hope someone enjoys it though.
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