Square Enix filed a trademark for Mevius Final Fantasy back in October—and give yourself a pat on the back if you guessed that it would be a smartphone game. Famitsu’s preview snippet for this week’s magazine issue shares more details on the team behind its development.

December 18 is the anniversary date of Final Fantasy, and to commemorate the occasion, Famitsu got Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi along with Square Enix’s Yoshinori Kitase to talk about the series.

During the interview, Kitase revealed that he’s in charge of the development, along with staff members from main-numbered Final Fantasy games for Mevius Final Fantasy.

While he didn’t go too much into detail, he said that it’s not a remake of the earlier Final Fantasy games, but it will have some sort of relation. Again, Mevius Final Fantasy will be what’s considered an orthodox Final Fantasy title.

As far as staff members go, Yoshinori Kitase is manning the role of producer, while Kazushige Nojima, who helped Yoshinori Kitase write the scenario for Final Fantasy VII, and also worked on VIII, X, and X-2, will be in charge of the story.

Toshiyuki Itahana, who worked on character designs for Final Fantasy IX, Crystal Chronicles, and more recently Final Fantasy Explorers, is in charge of the character designing for Mevius Final Fantasy.

Mevius Final Fantasy will release sometime in Spring 2015 in Japan for iOS and Android.

Read more at http://www.siliconera.com/2014/12/16/mevius-final-fantasy-upcoming-smartphone-game-yoshinori-kitase/#IgSqMHXKfpFh2dgb.99

Since it's going to Android, ok. But I won't be as excited since you forced me to be excited.

LMAO!
He does look like him! A bit more ripped though.

(Yes, I'm forshadowing a new sig :P)

Nah, it's this guy before he got all bionic.

the scans:

Titled Mevius Final Fantasy, the game is being developed in-house and is slated for release on iOS and Android in Spring, 2015. According to Kitase, the game will take the "classic road" (王道) of Final Fantasy with features like map exploration – although moving across the map will be automated – tactical battles, and a leveling system. The game focuses on the "warrior of light," paying homage to the original Final Fantasy that Sakaguchi made. 

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They really went full bishonen on that character. lol!

That's great. :)

Didn't they already issue a statement about the conditions for a ff7 remake? FF15 is coming, so it's not like they went full mobile. Let's just hope this one won't be heavy on microtransactions.

wait is it 3D or 2d?

Um........