Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster Gets Pixel Font, PS4 & Switch Release Date

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Square Enix has confirmed that Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster is getting that feature fans have been asking for on PlayStation 4 and Switch: pixel fonts.

While Square Enix has been working hard to catch up on rereleasing their classic games on modern consoles recently, the first batch of rereleased games have left a lot to be desired.

Fans have noticed the ‘newer’ versions have new, less intuitive menus, new music, and the most divisive of all, a new font for text that proved very unpopular. It isn’t just that the font isn’t like the pixel fonts that fans had gotten used to in the original 8-bit to 31-bit platforms. The new font is harder to read and just makes the games look worse.

In a blog post on their official site, Square Enix explained that yes, you can choose to pick pixel style fonts for the text. For the hardcore Final Fantasy fans, this one change may be all that’s needed to convince them to get this new package. No word for now if other versions of the games will also get this change.

But there are other additional options on this new console version of the games as well. You can switch from the new orchestral arrangements made for this collection to the original soundtracks, on 8-bit to 32-bit game consoles. Both the new and old soundtracks were composed by Nobuo Uematsu, of course, but this is just another choice that lets you recreate that classic experience.

Two more options aren’t found in the old games, and maybe these are things that the same fans wanted from the original game anyway. You can choose to turn off random encounters in any of these games completely. Now, some of these older Final Fantasy games handle random encounters differently than others, but overall, if this was something that annoyed