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Final Fantasy Fortress is a cancelled action RPG that was being developed by Grin in 2008 and 2009 to be published by Square-Enix on Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. While Grin were developing Bionic Commando for Capcom, Yoichi Wada from Square Enix visited their offices and loved what he saw and proposed to Grin to create a new game together. Initially Square Enix invited Grin to pitch a game based on their japanese card game Lord of Vermilion, but later they decided to use the Final Fantasy name.

We had an old article about Fortress on Unseen64 ( https://www.unseen64.net/2009/09/08/fortress-final-fantasy-xbox-360-ps3-cancelled/ ) , but as always we are trying to create more videos about less-known lost games, so that it could be easier to remember them now that most gamers don't read nor share websites anymore.  

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Final Fantasy Fortress: the Cancelled RPG by Grin | Unseen64 Ft. SoberDwarf

► For more details: https://www.unseen64.net/2009/09/08/fortress-final-fantasy-xbox-360-ps3-cancelled/ Final Fantasy Fortress is a cancelled action RPG that was being developed by Grin in 2008 and 2009 to be published by Square-Enix on Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. Grin’s past game never had a big impact on the market, but you probably remember them as the team behind such games as Bionic Commando Rearmed and the Bionic Commando reboot. While Grin were developing Bionic Commando for Capcom, Yoichi Wada from Square Enix visited their offices and loved what he saw and proposed to Grin to create a new game together. Initially Square Enix invited Grin to pitch a game based on their japanese card game Lords of Vermilion, but later they decided to use the Final Fantasy name. To let a western team to develop a Final Fantasy title was quite an extraordinary event at the time, the main chapters in the Final Fantasy series were still turn-based and Fortress could have been released way before Final Fantasy XV. ► Thanks to SoberDwarf for the voice over! You can check his channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/SoberDwarfShow ► Please, consider pledge on Patreon to help Unseen64 to keep the site online and remember more lost games: https://www.patreon.com/unseen64 ► This video is released under Fair Use, to help preserving the unseen history of video games.

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That black guy

Always been a fan of grin so this made me sad to know this was happening when they closed their doors

unseen64

Indeed, Grin had some talented developers, it's really a shame that Square never paid them even if they did develop a prototype, even if they did not like the result should have given them some money for their work.. not nice at all :(

Desdemona M.

Really glad I could participate in this episode! Hopefully I did it justice, the comments have provided some constructive criticism I'll keep in mind for the future. And yeah, I knew about Grin when I was reading them when working on a mini-script for Payday, but I didn't realize just how bad Square treated them. Especially for a small studio like that.

unseen64

Thanks again for your help Mason! Without people like you I could not be able to do videos for Unseen64 and i'm sure the site would slowly die if not doing at least a video each month.. what a strange internet we are living in! ;) Comments with criticism are good to improve ourselves, even if sometime Youtube comments feel more like random trolls than anything else :O