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Defunct GRIN Was Working on New Final Fantasy

by Chris Faylor, Aug 20, 2009 11:20am PDT

Related Topics – Final Fantasy, , BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger Portable, Square Enix, GRIN

When Bionic Commando and Terminator Salvation game developer GRIN closed earlier this month, the studio lamented that it had an "unreleased masterpiece that we weren't allowed to finish"--a title that now appears to have been a new Final Fantasy entry.

Various LinkedIn listings uncovered by superannuation indicate that GRIN was working with Final Fantasy owner Square Enix on a project codenamed "Fortress," with one ex-staffer noting his work at GRIN on an "unannounced Final Fantasy project."

Destructoid adds, via sources, that the project was an action game set in the Final Fantasy XII universe, and that Square owed GRIN "upwards of a few million dollars." In addition, former GRIN artist Tomislav Spajic posted some "Fortress" environments (above), which certainly bear a resemblance to some FF12 areas.

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Grin and bare it

Aug 20, 2009 11:52am PDT

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  Bear. Bare would probably be applicable only in rather creepy, pointing-a-gun-at-a-hot-woman scenarios. : AlexW1203
  - He only cares about her verticle smile. : destroy.all.monsters

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Who better to get a chance to make a Final Fantasy game than the makers of Terminator: Salvation.

Aug 20, 2009 11:52am PDT

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Who better to get a chance to make a Final Fantasy game than the makers of Terminator: Salvation. : Vegetolo
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  By that token, who better to get a chance to make an FF game than the makers of Bionic Commando: Rearmed? : NeoChaosX
  - If it was an HD remake of an old FF game, I'd be all for it, considering how awesome their HD remake of B... : CyCo_PL
  - Apples and Oranges, my man. BC: ReArmed is a remake of an incredible game, not a brand new game like the ... : zerocommazero

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that sucks. a new developer for FF stuff might have got me interested in the series again

Aug 20, 2009 11:48am PDT

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that sucks. a new developer for FF stuff might have got me interested in the series again : dantastic
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  Nah. I can't see Final Fantasy titles not being made by Square. They surprise me on every FF title and I ... : MarcusCalil
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    Square lost me an # 8. The magic pulling system was lame. And I tried 10, but that bugged me too. The ... : matrixneo42
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Eh, no big loss, I don't think. Given he monstrous amount of hate for Final Fantasy XII and the clusterfucker that was Dirge of Cerberus, I really can't imagine it would have turned out too well.

Aug 20, 2009 11:28am PDT

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This is probably a good thing if you are a Final Fantasy fan. GRIN turned out nothing but crap in the past couple of years.

Aug 20, 2009 8:12pm PDT

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This is probably a good thing if you are a Final Fantasy fan. GRIN turned out nothing but crap in the pa... : LemonJoose
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- Bionic Commando was pretty fucking rad. : Sapiens
- Other than Bionic Commando Rearmed, they did just make a bunch of games that most people thought were cra... : OmegaRed59

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Very nice screenshots.. Somehow the color scheme and lack of textures remind me of Another World..

Aug 20, 2009 3:31pm PDT

Very nice screenshots.. Somehow the color scheme and lack of textures remind me of Another World.. : pillzer

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This is a shame. Grin did good work with Bionic Commando xbox live arcade and I'm still interested in trying the updated one. Also, an action game set in final fantasy could be have been tight. Would have been something refreshing for that series.

Aug 20, 2009 2:04pm PDT

This is a shame. Grin did good work with Bionic Commando xbox live arcade and I'm still interested in tr... : matrixneo42

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Chris, find out why SE withheld payments!

Aug 20, 2009 12:45pm PDT

Chris, find out why SE withheld payments! : packav

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Shame to see Grin go down like that, didn't know they were working on this though. R.I.P

Aug 20, 2009 11:45am PDT

Shame to see Grin go down like that, didn't know they were working on this though. R.I.P : ObstructConduct

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Monstrous amount of hate for FF12? FF12 was great and it was received rather well. The only people who didn't like it were mindless JRPG drones who were pissed off that their crappy battle system was actually upgraded to something that worked and was fun.

Aug 20, 2009 11:37am PDT

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