Remember Japan? That country that used to make all the games you love? Good news! They’re still making lots of interesting stuff! You may not hear about those games as often these days as you do big-budget, high-profile Western titles, but that doesn’t mean nothing worth reporting is happening over there. That’s why every week I’ll be rounding up the most interesting events, news, and releases to come out of Japan.
The big news for the week — “big” in the sense that it involves games you will definitely someday play in English — concerns Final Fantasy X HD, which not only still exists but it getting pretty heftily fancied-up. Not content with simply up-rezzing the original PS2 game as they’re doing with Kingdom Hears 1.5 HD, Square Enix is reworking the graphics, too. And they’re including both FFX and its sequel Final Fantasy X-2 on the same PS3 disc. And they’re including the International Edition content for both titles, which adds new bosses and job classes.