Remaining Fantasy Remasters Restore Intro Credit, Fonts Nonetheless Unhealthy

When Sq. Enix’s vary of Remaining Fantasy remasters for PC and cell have been first unveiled a few years again, followers have been fast to note one thing: not solely had the sport’s conventional pixel font been changed, however they’d been changed by new, tiny little letters that have been an assault on the senses.

To recap, right here’s how dangerous the fonts have been:

Bought individually, the video games’ costs complete out to $95.94. Happily, Steam presents a bundle possibility, nevertheless it solely brings them all the way down to $74.82, which feels a bit steep for a set of decades-old video games. It doesn’t assist that Sq. Enix has saddled all of the video games with a text font that’s each overly clear and claustrophobically compact, making it not possible to look away from because of how misplaced it feels. Many, many people have remarked on the tiny, tiny font.

“My god this font is the ugliest factor I’ve ever seen in a online game,” author and podcaster Heather Anne Campbell said on Twitter. “It’s the worst of all time.”

“[Seriously] guys I’ve typography dot com open in a tab actually proper now,” wrote present YouTube man and former Kotaku video man Tim Rogers. “They obtained a lotta good ones on there, guys.”

With those self same video games coming to PS4 and Change later this month, Sq. Enix determined to mark the event by fixing these fonts. Or, making an attempt to repair them.

Amongst different new options like the power to change between authentic and rearranged soundtracks, and turning off random encounters, there’s additionally a menu choice to “Change Fonts”, which “provides you the choice to change between two totally different fonts: the default font and a brand new pixel-based font that recreates the texture of the unique video games”. Which it does, in a method, nevertheless it’s nonetheless too small and condensed, so whereas its not as dangerous to have a look at, it’s in lots of instances very onerous to learn.

That sucks, however on the brilliant aspect, a few of these different modifications are welcome, together with the truth that Sq. Enix have, very quietly, restored Remaining Fantasy VI’s intro credit, which had beforehand been eliminated and resulted in an eerily hole opening sequence.

The PS4 and Change variations of the remasters will probably be out on April 19.