E3 2010: The Beauty of Final Fantasy XIV

What can I say about all this new Final Fantasy XIV media? Perhaps the highest compliment I can pay is to say that it looks exactly like a Final Fantasy game should, and that is no mean feat for an MMO. If you can manage not to be distracted by the cat people and strangely optimistic battle march playing in the background, the trailer above appears to show segments of the cinematic cutscene style that Final Fantasy is now famous for. Turning your attention then to the many screenshots below, you can see that the gameplay of FFXIV has not been short-changed in the graphical department either. I can’t recall whether Square Enix has ever made a game that hasn’t been gorgeous, but if so it is a distant memory now – just sit back and soak in that Japanese artistic beauty.

To view the screenshots, click below.