Final Fantasy Resonance release date: 22 October 2026 (out now)

Final Fantasy Resonance is Square Enix's first HD-2D Final Fantasy, made with Lancarse. It retells the first story arc of Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, the mobile game whose global servers closed in October 2024, as a full turn-based console RPG.

The big change for players who came from Brave Exvius is that the gacha is gone. In the mobile game, heroes and Visions came from paid random summons, the kind of pull system we explain in how pity works. In Resonance you recruit characters at shrines through the story and earn Visions by playing, so there are no drop rates to track and no currency to buy. That sets it apart from the gacha RPGs we cover, such as Genshin Impact and Wuthering Waves, where the best characters sit behind banners.

How Visions work. Each of your party members can equip one Vision at a time. A Vision raises that character's stats and adds abilities, and when an enemy is staggered it can trigger a Resonance Attack, its ultimate move. Legacy heroes such as Cloud, Terra, Zidane, Noctis and the Warrior of Light are found at vision crystal sanctums around the world. Because Visions add to a character rather than replace them, the "best" Vision depends on who it is paired with.

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