Squaresoft History

Square is a Goliath in the gaming industry. It's Final Fantasy franchise one of the largest sagas on any gaming platform. Recently Final Fantasy XI went to the Playstation and PC. FFXI is a Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. Squaresoft was orginally American in the 1986 when it was formed. After the successful launch of Final Fantasy for the NES, Squaresoft moved to Japan where it incorprates itself today. In 1998, Square joined Electronic Arts, American game company, to release titles for Playstation from 1998 to 2001. Square and Electronic Arts still publish Squaresoft games in Europe. Square joined RPG maker Enix to form Square-Enix in 2002. Enix and Square still work on their separate titles, but they've combined to get a bigger share of the global market. Final Fantasy 7 several million titles on Playstation. The graphics are some of the best on Playstation. Final Fantasy 7 was a technical marvel when it came out in 1997. Squaresoft than released the old Final Fantasy games on Playstation with new features and cut scenes. The game made Square expand to a larger company. Final Fantasy 8, a whole new game based on Final Fantasy traditions, was released in 1999 without the costing as much as Final Fantasy 7.

Square also released a horror game called Parasite Eve to compete against Silent Hill and Resident Evil. It did well. Square made a sequel called Parasite Eve 2. They also put Xenogears (popular), Valiant Story (did very well) and Secret of Mana on Playstation. Chrono Cross did well in 2000, but not as well as Valiant Story or Final Fantasy 9. Rad Racer, Bushido Blade, Chocobo's Dungeon were other Playstation games developed by Squaresoft.

In 2001, marked the new age for Squaresoft. The multi-hundred million dollar project known as Final Fantasy X made it's debut. It was able to combine voice acting with detailed high resolution graphics with dvd quality FMV. The graphics at that time were almost as good as Metal Gear Solid. Squaresoft also had some other titles like the Bouncer, and Driving Type S that were average. This is Squaresoft's weakness, they make a damn good RPG, but the other titles suck except for Parasite Eve.

In the early 1990s Squaresoft developed RPGs for other publishers including Breath of Fire for Super NES and Super Mario RPG for Super Nintendo. I played Super Mario RPG and thought it was good. Squaresoft left development for Nintendo 64, but they are developing titles for Gamecube. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, marks the first offline multiplayer supported RPG. They are also developing Parasite Eve Rebirth for Nintendo.  One unexcepted RPG that Square developed that exploded with popularity is Kingdom Hearts. Kingdom Hearts combines Final Fantasy characters with Disney characters. The title did very well selling over a million copies in the US.

The future still looks bright for Squaresoft. It depends a lot on how good their next RPG will result. And the gamers have liked a lot of them.     

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