Final Fantasy Guilty Wing promo exposed as fake
Our translator tackles some shady Japanese mag scans and tells us we're right to be excited. Then somebody points out its a fake. What are you doing to us!?
[Well they certainly fooled us. Word on the e-street is that the scan to the left - which purports to have been taken from a copy of Japanese magazine Shonen V-Jump - is a fake. It seems that someone, somewhere has brought Photoshop and Final Fantasy together, probably not for the first time, and conned a whole bunch of us into getting unduly excited. Such is life. Still, we're good sports, so feel free to point and laugh at the story we were hoodwinked into writing... -Ed]
If Japanese magazine Shonen V-Jump is to be believed, Square-Enix is planning another Final Fantasy game for Nintendo GameCube, reportedly entitled Final Fantasy: Guilty Wing.
Although Square-Enix is somewhat impenetrable when it comes to the question of new software, a one-page promo for the next issue of the magazine features a prominent FF logo and, in the words of our trusty translator, reads "Final Fantasy: Guilty Wing - GameCube".
Below, the strapline says "Kingdom Hearts PS2, GCN Final Fantasy AC DVD" ("AC" is presumably a reference to Advent Children), all of which seems to be unrelated. Not that it's stopped some folks getting their Tifa outfits in a twist.
If Square-Enix is planning a new Cube game, we wouldn't put it past them to unveil it at E3 this May, particularly after Crystal Chronicles enjoyed such a warm reception at last year's event. And we do mean warm - we'd never seen grown men sweat together with such unbridled joy.
Rumours of such a game have been circulating for a few weeks now, originating in the British Nintendo Official Magazine, which claimed a new Final Fantasy title was on the way for the beleaguered Nintendo platform. We shall see. [Or rather, we won't. -Ed]