Squenix starts new mystery countdown

By Robert Purchese Published 31 July, 2009

As DS Final Fantasy gets October date.

Square Enix has made another mystery countdown website, which displays the text "VI DAYS" atop a down-ticking clock.

We'll check back in six days.

The last Square Enix countdown reveal was turn-based DS role-playing game The Four Warriors of Light: A Final Fantasy Anecdote.

That, the publisher announced yesterday, will be out in Japan on 29th October.

There are videos and and more of Four Warriors of Light over on the official website.

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Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (12) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • LukehMuse #1 3 years ago

    I like how it went up yesterday saying 'VII days' and the FF7 fans went BESERK!

    Hehe. It seems countdowns are the in thing for game announcements at the moment.

  • Slurmseh #2 3 years ago

    I'd like to be FFVI. It won't be, but I'd like that.

  • Raz76 #3 3 years ago

    This is such a brilliant marketing strategy. Let the hype build up to unrealistic expectations and then disappoint everyone with your actual announcement.

  • crazyhorse174 #4 3 years ago

    "This is such a brilliant marketing strategy. Let the hype build up to unrealistic expectations and then disappoint everyone with your actual announcement."

    Wow, to know that you must be able to see into the future, as clearly there aren't any other hints to what the announcement will actually be! Amazing!

    You think you could give me the lottery numbers as well, while your looking ahead!?

  • Golgo #5 3 years ago

    Maybe Euro date for Draon Quest IX? Oh, how I live for these countdowns...

  • Cid #6 3 years ago

    Stuff

  • jaluuk #7 3 years ago

    What, no link to the site?

  • wittynic #8 3 years ago

    sheesh, talk about diluting the brand. the name Final Fantasy used to just be about big exciting releases. I REALISE that as times get harder there has to be an effort on SE's behalf to make money more easily, but this slew of spin offs etc is pretty tedious.

  • CitizenGeek #9 3 years ago

    In fairness though, I don't think anyone can call any of the FF spin-offs "bad". None of them get low ratings on review aggregation sites anyways and the ones I've played have all been above average. So, sure, the FF brand is being diluting, but at least the spin-offs aren't all that bad and are actually excellent in some cases (Crisis Core, Tactics Advance, Dissidia).

  • penhalion #10 3 years ago

    @CitizenGeek

    None of the FF games tend to get low ratings but, I suspect that has less to do with us gamers than with seriously dodgy review scores.

    I know I haven't enjoyed any FF games for a long while now. In fact I can't stand random battles after playing the likes Tales of Vesperia, Infinite Undiscovery etc. etc. I find that fighting 20 random battles while trying to walk 2 feet on a map screen just sucks the willpower and joy out of me.

  • DrMGinius #11 3 years ago

    If you make a viral site for EVERY announcement, that makes the countdown part of a regular announcement, not only for exciting extremely hyped announcement only, turning the viral marketing pointless, so why dont announce the game once and for all?Also, how can a remake of a game be hyped? Is a game you have already played, how can it dissapoint you?

    And why am I writing about this if im not even interested on the game?!

  • Jamiesan #12 3 years ago

    @DrMGinius : +1

    @CitizenGeek : Played Dirge of Cerberus? A game all about Vincent had so much potential :(