Final Fantasy Resonance: Oct 22 Release, Price and Demo

On October 30, 2024, Square Enix shut down the global servers of Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, a mobile game built on paid pulls that launched eight years earlier. Accounts were deleted, and with them the characters players had paid for in Lapis, the game’s premium currency. Almost two years later, on October 22, 2026, its heroes Rain and Lasswell return on PS5, Xbox Series, Switch, Switch 2 and PC, in a full game priced at €59.99.

Final Fantasy Resonance promises to keep only the story and the combat ideas of the mobile game. The gacha (the system of paid random character pulls) is gone. Yet the game’s listing on the French PlayStation Store shows « In-game purchases » next to its PEGI 12 rating. Sixteen days before launch, both facts hold together.

Final Fantasy Resonance is neither a port nor a remake of Brave Exvius

The site Push Square settled the question on June 12, picking up an IGN hands-on: the game is « neither a remake nor a port of the gacha game », but a reinvention built on part of its foundations. Development is handled by the Japanese studio Lancarse, with Square Enix publishing.

The game uses the HD-2D look, those 3D environments populated by pixel art characters popularized by Octopath Traveler. Battles are turn-based, on a timeline that shows the order of action. Visions, a direct legacy of Brave Exvius, summon figures from the series: Cloud, Terra, Zidane, Noctis or the Warrior of Light. They do not replace the party’s characters, they add abilities to them. When an enemy is staggered, a Vision can trigger a Resonance Attack, its ultimate move.

Scott Clay, who played the game for RPGFan, sums it up in one sentence: « a lot of what I played, both story- and gameplay-wise, is a large departure from Brave Exvius ». Characters are no longer pulled at random: they are recruited in shrines, after trials made of questions.

No more gacha, but an « In-game purchases » label

On the French PlayStation Store listing, Final Fantasy Resonance costs €59.99 for the standard edition and €69.99 for the digital Deluxe. The « In-game purchases » label does sit next to the PEGI 12 logo. It covers content sold separately, which RPG Site detailed on September 3.

• The digital Deluxe edition adds the Magitek Armor Key, a magitek armor appearance for the chocobo, and the Archwitch’s Grimoire, which unlocks the Limit Burst Fel Meteor for one character.
• An upgrade to the Deluxe sells for $14.99 to players who own the standard edition.
• Pre-ordering gives a starter pack: a magitek ship appearance, a sword, a breastplate and consumables. The PlayStation Store adds an early purchase bonus until November 5.

The Limit Burst is the point to watch. A chocobo skin changes nothing in a run. A combat ability reserved for the €69.99 edition does. None of the sources we checked says whether Fel Meteor can also be earned by playing. Until that answer comes, the standard edition is the safer pick: upgrading to the Deluxe will still cost $14.99 later.

To put that price in context, Nintendo sells its remake of Zelda Ocarina of Time on Switch 2 for $70, against $49.99 for the standard edition of Resonance in the United States. Collectors get their own edition too: €219.99, exclusive to the Square Enix store according to editioncollector.fr, with an artbook, a soundtrack and a promotional card for the Final Fantasy card game. The item box alone, without the game, costs €150.

A 3 to 5 hour demo, with your save carried over

The best way to decide before October 22 costs nothing. Since September 3, a demo covers the opening and the whole first chapter, in the kingdom of Grandshelt. Gematsu estimates it at three to five hours of play. It runs on PS5, Xbox Series, Switch, Switch 2 and PC (Steam and Microsoft Store), and the save will carry over into the full game.

Text is available in French on the Switch, Switch 2 and PS5 versions, with English or Japanese voices. That chapter is enough to judge the essentials: the pace of the turn-based fights, the role of Visions, and the tone of the game, which Push Square finds lighter and more colorful than recent Final Fantasy entries, closer to a Dragon Quest.

October 22 at midnight, Paris time

The French PlayStation Store lists a release on October 21 at 10 PM UTC, which is midnight on October 22 in Paris. Final Fantasy Resonance lands in a very busy month, between Ace Combat 8, which the press and Steam players rate very differently, and Paris Games Week, which opens its doors the same day.

Full reviews are not out yet. The previews from RPGFan and DualShockers praise the combat and the art direction, but none measures the lifespan of the full game.