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Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Soundtrack

Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius Soundtrack

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Soundtrack, Noriyasu Agematsu / Hitoshi Fujima / Junpei Fujita / Seima Kondo / Ryota Tomaru, 2015

Square Enix’s post-merger strategy was based mainly on the idea of “polymorphic content” – although some might say that this was simply the age-old strategy of milking popular brands for all that they’re worth. As a result, the number of games bearing the “Final Fantasy” moniker exploded from the mid-2000s onwards – and of course, the franchise would eventually jump on the freemium mobile gaming bandwagon once this business model started to take off in the 2010s. Final Fantasy Brave Exvius was developed by Alim, who had displayed their assured handling of this particular genre with Brave Frontier. However, critical reception of Brave Exvius remained mixed, despite the copious amounts of fan service Alim had added to the mix. Then again, 45 million downloads within five years of the game’s release were nothing to sneeze at, so Brave Exvius certainly didn’t rate as a commercial failure.

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Tagged With: 2015, Alim, Final Fantasy (Franchise), Hitoshi Fujima, Junpei Fujita, Mixed Music Genres, Mobile, Noriyasu Agematsu, RPG, Ryota Tomaru, Seima Kondo

War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Soundtrack

War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Soundtrack

War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Soundtrack, Noriyasu Agematsu / Hitoshi Fujima / Junpei Fujita / Ryota Tomaru, 2019

Among the many, many off-shoots of the Final Fantasy franchise that Square Enix churned out over the years, War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius was one of the more intriguing ones. Obviously a spin-off of Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, War of the Visions took inspiration from the Final Fantasy Tactics games, turning into a strategy RPG – not a direction that the franchise had taken much outside of the FFT titles. With War of the Visions being a free mobile game, gacha systems and in-app microtransactions were inevitable features gamers had to contend with. Some balancing issues aside, though, War of the Visions offered a surprisingly fully-fledged and in-depth strategy game experience bolstered by excellent production values. Maybe due to its genre, the game was significantly more successful in Japan than abroad but still managed over eleven million downloads in total soon after its release.

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Tagged With: 2019, Final Fantasy (Franchise), Gumi, Hitoshi Fujima, Junpei Fujita, Mobile, Noriyasu Agematsu, Orchestral, RPG, Ryota Tomaru, Square Enix

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