Mobius Final Fantasy

Unreleased

Mobius Final Fantasy, titled early in development as Mevius Final Fantasy, is an upcoming video game for iOS and Android, produced by Yoshinori Kitase. The game is said to take the "classic road" with features like map exploration–although moving across the map will be automated–tactical battles, and a leveling system. The game focuses on Wol. The scenario is written by Kazushige Nojima and is said to be on par with a numbered game, featuring refined plot twists. Since the game will have the Warriors of Light as a theme, it pays homage to the first Final Fantasy game with inclusion of a variety of references to it, but it is not a remake and has a new story and setting.

Gameplay
Although the player selects the places to go on the map and is automatically transported there, the exploration of the fields, the strategic battles and the leveling systems conform to the orthodox Final Fantasy games. The game will feature a job system.

The battle system follows the traditional smartphones controls: they are simple and fighting happens by tapping the screen. players can also use magic abilities, including fire and blizzard. Some enemy types have elemental weaknesses: by casting a blizzard spell on fire elemental monsters will become weakened, making it easier to finish them off. Similar to Final Fantasy XIII saga, Mobius Final Fantasy also uses stagger system, where even more damage can be done. By defeating these mighty beasts, the player will also gather elements as loot.

Similar to other Final Fantasy games, there will be a summon system where the player can utilize eidolons such as Shiva, Onion Knight and Fat Chocobo in battles. The player can also rename the hero the way they like.

Playable Character

 * Wol - A foreigner from an unknown planet that drifted his way into Palamitia. He lost his memories and doesn't remember how he arrived in Palamitia. Detached from reality, he fights on to continue living.

Other Characters

 * Sarah Cornelia - A princess and a Cornelia family descendant of the Palamitia Kingdom. Fitting to her stature as a princess, she’s neat and tidy, but occasionally shows a cuter side. She’s been waiting for the Hero of Light told by prophecies.
 * Mog - The Mog is from one of the Palamitia’s races, known as the Moogles. The Mog feels something special after meeting the protagonist, and decides to act as his guide. Moogles are a special being that have the ability to cooperate using their senses and memories.
 * Echo - A fairy that aids Wol in his journey.
 * Garland - A Palamitian knight.

Development


During the Famitsu interview with Sakaguchi and Kitase where Mobius Final Fantasy was unveiled, Sakaguchi was impressed with the game's graphics and asked Kitase if the player can zoom in on the world map. Kitase replied that currently that was not possible, but Sakaguchi urged them to add the feature, as well as a moon. Kitase argued that if the game has a moon players will want to go there and Sakaguchi retorted that being the point.

The interviewer suggested Kitase and Sakaguchi do a collaboration of Sakaguchi's Terra Battle and Kitase's Mobius Final Fantasy. Both were on board with the idea.

For a smartphone game the staff for Mobius Final Fantasy is bigger than any previous title of that sort and it is mostly developed in-house. The staff consists of people who work on the numbered Final Fantasy games. Mobius Final Fantasy is the first Final Fantasy mobile game of this scope, although parts of the illustrations and graphics are outsourced. Kitase explained that even though it is possible to make games like on dedicated game console also on smartphones, they didn't seem to exist and that's why they wanted to make one. He also added that players spend most of their gaming time on smart devices.

Etymology
The game is named after the Möbius strip. The "8"-shaped figure in the logo can also be seen as a variation on the Möbius strip.

Trivia

 * Many fans have noted that the game's content comes from the Lightning Saga, or resembles part of it, e.g. Wol was noted to be similar in appearance to Hope Estheim, the moogle is a model edit of Mog, Zaltys's model is reused for Red Dragon, and the moon in one of the promotional artworks resembles Cocoon in a way.