NYCC: Square Enix Brings Crisis Core and Forspoken to the Big Show

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Square Enix has been surprisingly busy with role-playing game (RPG) releases this year. The Japanese publisher—renowned for its legendary Final Fantasy series—released Valkyrie Elysium in September and plans to drop Star Ocean: The Divine Force later this month.

However, Square Enix has even more RPGs coming this winter, with Crisis Core –Final Fantasy VII– Reunion (PC, Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S) and Forspoken (PC, PS5) arriving on shelves Dec. 12 and Jan. 24, respectively. We got playtime with both games at New York Comic-Con, getting a feel for what these hotly anticipated games offer from a visual, performance, and gameplay perspective.

Crisis Core –Final Fantasy VII– Reunion (referred to as Crisis Core Reunion throughout the rest of this article), is a high-definition remaster of the PSP prequel to Final Fantasy VII. You play as Zach Fair, a young warrior working his way up the ranks of the prestigious spec ops force called SOLDIER. Final Fantasy VII's world is a fantastical, pseudo-futuristic dystopia ruled by the Shinra Electric Power Company. This global conglomerate has its hand in many businesses, including energy production, weapons technology, and military engagement (to say nothing of the more nefarious evil science its company heads do behind closed doors). Zach becomes embroiled in the nightmarish horrors Shinra unwittingly unleashes, setting the stage for the events that come to pass in Final Fantasy VII.

As an HD remaster, Crisis Core Reunion's graphics are touched up. This includes refreshed 3D models and backgrounds. The soundtrack has been rearranged by the original composer, Takeharu Ishimoto, and the game is now fully voiced in both English and Japanese (the PSP version