June 2016

Here you can find news items that were posted on Hell and Heaven Net in the past.

Final Fantasy VII

Merchoid, a video game merchandise webshop, has announced that Final Fantasy VII will get a Monopoly version. It will be released on 14 April 2017, 20 years after the release of the original game on PlayStation.

Jessica Adams, community manager at Merchoid, said the following:

It's every family's favourite board game in a Final Fantasy 7 theme, so it will feature Cloud, Aeris, Sephiroth and all your favourite characters and locations. Whether your plans are to buy housing for the people or build a Mako reactor plant, you'll soon discover the real nature of Sephiroth's evil is the extortionate amount of rent he charges.

Final Fantasy VII Monopoly

You can preorder the board game at Merchoid for $49.99 /  €51.99 / £34.99. However, the link now returns a 404 - Not Found. Is it a fake?

Square Enix

After Final Fatasy XII: Zodiac Age and World of Final Fantasy, Square Enix and Disney have revealed today a new gameplay trailer for the upcoming Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue and announced that it will be available this December on PlayStation 4.

Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue includes the HD version of the Nintendo 3DS version of Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance, Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep – A fragmentary passage, which runs on the same engine as Kingdom Hearts III and KINGDOM HEARTS χ [chi] Back Cover, a new tale that sheds light on the mysterious foretellers.

Square Enix

Squsre Enix has announced that World of Final Fantasy will be released on 25 October in North America and 28 October in Europe for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.

In World of Final Fantasy, players lead a pair of twins, Reynn and Lann, through the land of Grymoire on a search to rediscover their lost memories. Throughout their adventure, players will collect, raise and battle adorable beings of classic Final Fantasy lore, including cactuar, chocobo and behemoth, to create customizable, strategic tower combinations to take on the most challenging of opponents.

Fans who preorder the day one edition of World of Final Fantasy will receive the legendary Sephiroth as a summon to aid them in battle.

With this announcement they've also released the E3 2016 trailer.

Final Fantasy XII

Hiroaki Kato, producer at Square Enix, has announced today that Final Fantasy XII (released back in 2006 on PlayStation 2) will receive a remastered version called Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age and it will be released on PlayStation 4 in 2017.

This version is based on Final Fantasy XII: International Zodiac Job System, the international version that was only released in Japan which includes the Zodiac Job System, New Game+, New Game- and a Trail Mode. A top of that this remastered version will feature the following:

  • Updated graphics
    Visuals, including the environments, characters, and movie scenes will be updated to full HD resolution
  • New soundtrack
    Re-recorded the soundtrack using the current generation of sound generation, now in true 7.1 surround. You can also switch back to the original soundtrack.
  • Modern advancements
    PlayStation 4 Trophy support and Share functionality, auto-save, shortened loading times and overlaid location map.

The game will be playable at E3 2016. Expect more news from it soon.