This recent Nintendo Direct has been quite the showcase, offering sneak peeks and first looks at all sorts of exciting titles – including Final Fantasy Resonance, a new JRPG from Square Enix that feels a whole lot like Octopath Traveler.
Final Fantasy Resonance is set to arrive on October 22, 2026, and it's stunning. Unveiled as "the first Final Fantasy game in HD-2D" – the very same art style that Octopath Traveler and its sequel use, the new entry in Square Enix's decades-old series will be available to play on both the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2.
It features the same turn-based battles folks know and love Final Fantasy for, as well as recurring iconic characters like Cloud Strife himself. As for the setting – Lapis, it shares a world with Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, the now-dead free-to-play mobile RPG... and it sort of looks like a remake, honestly.
Unsurprising, seeing as it's "based on the first story arc of Brave Exvius," as per a press release from Square Enix – but is also apparently "far from just a direct port," as "it has been refined and extensively rebuilt as a full-fledged console-quality RPG experience."
Last we saw of Lapis was back in 2025, when Brave Exvius was discontinued – so, this is pretty cool.
It'll arguably be far more accessible to players on the Switch and its newer successor, with many Final Fantasy fans (hi, it's me) not engaging with mobile games as much as console and the like.
Plus, Square Enix is right at home with the HD-2D aesthetic, and if fellow JRPGs like Octopath Traveler offer anything to go by, the studio will ace it with Final Fantasy Resonance.
I'm not alone in thinking so, either, it seems. Comments on the trailer already show an excited community, with one person exclaiming that developers are "giving fans of classic Final Fantasy what they've been begging for!"
Hear, hear! Now, if only October could roll around more quickly...
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