Square Enix E3 2019 conference live report Eurogamer.net If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Square Enix E3 2019 conference live report Final Fantasy 7 Remake looks amazing! And Avongers is also a thing. Blog by Martin Robinson Editor-in-chief Updated on 11 Jun 2019 282 comments Square Enix closed off Monday with one of the best demos of the show as Final Fantasy 7 wowed eveyrone. And then they showed off The Avengers... Here's everything as it happened. Our live coverage of this event has finished. Coverage 00:37 am UTC *yawn* I don't even know what time it is anymore. – Martin Robinson 00:37 am UTC And we're nearly out of whiskey in the office. – Martin Robinson 00:37 am UTC Absolute disaster, tbh. – Martin Robinson 00:38 am UTC Still, one more show to go today! – Martin Robinson 00:44 am UTC Kami: This whole E3 feels like a hangover. My whole life feels like a hangover. – Martin Robinson 00:53 am UTC Well, this is a surprise. A real live show. – Martin Robinson 00:53 am UTC I'm kind of excited? – Martin Robinson 00:54 am UTC What to expect? – Martin Robinson 00:55 am UTC Well, we know The Avengers is going to be leading the charge. – Martin Robinson 00:55 am UTC And we can expect some more on Final Fantasy 7 Remake. – Martin Robinson 00:55 am UTC What else? Would love to see some older RPGs return - Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana plz - and hey why not some mad ego trip of a project like The Quiet Man too. – Martin Robinson 00:57 am UTC What I'd like - what I'd really, really like - is a new Racing Lagoon. – Martin Robinson 00:57 am UTC Never going to happen, of course. – Martin Robinson 00:58 am UTC I think it was always going to be a flat year, what with everyone waiting for the next gen. – Martin Robinson 00:59 am UTC The last E3 like this - was it 2012? - also felt really dreary. – Martin Robinson 00:59 am UTC On the flipside, next year will be amazing! – Martin Robinson 01:00 am UTC And anyway I've got a massive backlog to get through, so I'm fine with no games for a year or two. – Martin Robinson 01:00 am UTC And away we go. – Martin Robinson 01:01 am UTC Let's video game! – Martin Robinson 01:01 am UTC Straight in with Final Fantasy 7 Remake. Just the good shit. – Martin Robinson 01:02 am UTC This is the intro. – Martin Robinson 01:02 am UTC And yes it looks amazing. – Martin Robinson 01:02 am UTC And that's just a lovely E3 moment just there - you can feel the love in that room. – Martin Robinson 01:03 am UTC Yoshinori Kitase comes on stage to talk us through more. – Martin Robinson 01:04 am UTC It still feels slightly surreal to see Final Fantasy 7 Remake being shown off. – Martin Robinson 01:04 am UTC Even more surreal that we have a release date now. – Martin Robinson 01:04 am UTC (Also as I'm an interminable hipster even though I love Final Fantasy and count 6, 12 and Tactics amongst my favourite games ever, I've never played 7). – Martin Robinson 01:05 am UTC Confirmed that Final Fantasy 7 Remake is coming on two discs, and Midgar is its own game. – Martin Robinson 01:06 am UTC 'Why is this stage set up like they're about to solve a pressure pad puzzle' says Donlan. – Martin Robinson 01:06 am UTC We're seeing the action system being properly explained - it's got an action slant, but the ATB system is still in their underpinning it all. – Martin Robinson 01:07 am UTC And you can switch to tactical mode, which is more of the traditional combat we're used to. – Martin Robinson 01:07 am UTC Also Neal, mate. I know it's exciting. But calm down a bit. – Martin Robinson 01:08 am UTC You can switch characters on the fly. – Martin Robinson 01:08 am UTC I'm quite into this new action system, though as I've hardly played the original I'm not the sort to be offended by it so easily. – Martin Robinson 01:08 am UTC MiracleNachos: This system looks like a lot of fun. Doesn't it just. – Martin Robinson 01:08 am UTC MiracleNachos: This system looks like a lot of fun. Doesn't it just. – Martin Robinson 01:09 am UTC Nicely observed - and they're two fine games. I'm very much into this. – Martin Robinson 01:10 am UTC Against my own expectations, and as someone without the nostalgia for the original, this has become one of my most hotly anticipated games of the next 12 months. – Martin Robinson 01:11 am UTC Beautifully handled from Square Enix. – Martin Robinson 01:12 am UTC It's a low bar to pass, but this Final Fantasy 7 gameplay is the best thing I've seen all E3. – Martin Robinson 01:14 am UTC Still some questions surrounding how they'll deal with the mad tone of FF7 - but I have faith. – Martin Robinson 01:15 am UTC *All* Final Fantasy games, even the more recent ones, are tonally all over the place. – Martin Robinson 01:15 am UTC Here's Nomura! – Martin Robinson 01:15 am UTC HerrProduk: I thought you were stanning for Watchdogs Murder Granny this year Martin? I have like 40 opinions an hour, most of them conflicting. Right now I'm all about this. Tomorrow I'll probably hate it. – Martin Robinson 01:16 am UTC So lovely to see the Nomura love in the comments here. I thought it was just me! – Martin Robinson 01:17 am UTC I like the tonal inconsistency! Maybe I should say tonal variety... – Martin Robinson 01:17 am UTC Anyway, Final Fantasy 7 Remake is playable at E3 this year. That's quite the thing. – Martin Robinson 01:17 am UTC And here's something special. – Martin Robinson 01:18 am UTC Well okay it's just a longer trailer for FF7 Remake but I'm up for that. – Martin Robinson 01:19 am UTC Our first look at Tifa. She looks good! – Martin Robinson 01:20 am UTC This really looks very, very good. – Martin Robinson 01:21 am UTC March 3rd 2020. That really isn't too far away. – Martin Robinson 01:22 am UTC Oddly, there's no menton of that being episodic. – Martin Robinson 01:22 am UTC It's just called Final Fantasy 7 Remake on the box. – Martin Robinson 01:22 am UTC Would love to know what's going on with that - whether the rest of the game will come as free updates, or it's all coming out on the one day. – Martin Robinson 01:22 am UTC Questions for later, I guess - now we're onto Life is Strange 2. – Martin Robinson 01:25 am UTC Nothing new there, really. Just confirming that Life is Strange 2 is a thing - a quite lovely thing - that people like. – Martin Robinson 01:25 am UTC Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles gets a tailer next. – Martin Robinson 01:25 am UTC And now Octopath Traveler for Steam. – Martin Robinson 01:26 am UTC All these are things we knew already - but hey Square Enix are allowed to remind us given what they delivered with that FF7 demo. – Martin Robinson 01:27 am UTC Last Remnant Remastered for Switch now. That *is* new. – Martin Robinson 01:27 am UTC Not that anyone was looking forward to that so much, but still! You can play it now if you really want to. – Martin Robinson 01:28 am UTC Dragon Quest Builders 2 now. – Martin Robinson 01:28 am UTC INSOMANiAC: Lost Odyssey was better than them both You speak the truth. – Martin Robinson 01:29 am UTC The original Dragon Quest Builders was absolutely delightful (if a little glacial in its pacing, but isn't that true of all Dragon Quest games). – Martin Robinson 01:30 am UTC This looks like a bigger, refined version of all that, so I'm in. – Martin Robinson 01:32 am UTC It's out July 12th - as we already knew - with a demo coming to PS4 on June 24th. – Martin Robinson 01:32 am UTC Release date for Dragon Quest 11 Switch now. – Martin Robinson 01:33 am UTC Not quite a release date, then - just that it's coming out this autumn. – Martin Robinson 01:33 am UTC INSOMANiAC: God the new dragons quest is so shit. It's as basic as it gets. Vastly overrated by reviewers I thought it was okay, but also didn't get the love for it shown elsewhere - it didn't quite have the spark or reason to be that classic Dragon Quest has. – Martin Robinson 01:34 am UTC INSOMANiAC: Have I missed avengers? They'll be closing with that, I'm sure. – Martin Robinson 01:34 am UTC This is an all-new game. – Martin Robinson 01:34 am UTC It's about Alpine? – Martin Robinson 01:36 am UTC Coming in 2020, it's a chibi racer called Circuit Superstar and I am *in*. – Martin Robinson 01:36 am UTC HerrProduk: Will we ever get another cell-shaded racing game? I loved the look of Auto Modelista Auto Modelista was great! Well, it looked great at least. – Martin Robinson 01:37 am UTC Battalion 1944 now, which is lovely but kind of had its chips pissed on by the likes of CoD: WW2 and BF5. – Martin Robinson 01:37 am UTC It's a fun shooter, mind. – Martin Robinson 01:38 am UTC An advert for Square Enix Music now, which is - music, from Square Enix. On Spotify and whatnot. Which we knew, but now there's a nice trailer to confirm all that. – Martin Robinson 01:39 am UTC Kingdom Hearts 3... DLC I guess. – Martin Robinson 01:39 am UTC INSOMANiAC: Give us DQ9 remake on switch... I like you. You have the right opinions on things. (This would be so good). – Martin Robinson 01:40 am UTC A little slice of FF14: Shadowbringers now, with Naoki Yoshida taking to one of the onstage pressure plates to show us more. – Martin Robinson 01:41 am UTC I doubt any of this will be new info, given the proximity of the release - it's out early next month. – Martin Robinson 01:41 am UTC Still, I'm just buzzing off that FF7 demo so I'm fine to take a minute to have a breather. – Martin Robinson 01:44 am UTC INSOMANiAC: Have you come down from the dying fox hallucinations yet Martin? I hear foxes rutting in my garden most nights. Most of my life is a fox hallucination. – Martin Robinson 01:45 am UTC I sometimes tell myself that Square Enix hasn't done all that much in recent years, but really this is all a reminder that, for all its faults, they've done some great stuff. – Martin Robinson 01:46 am UTC FF14 is much-loved and shows how they can see through their stumbles. – Martin Robinson 01:48 am UTC INSOMANiAC: Keep on being Square Enix, one of the few non-evil big game publishers left. Let's not go too far - they're still kind of evil. But also they've done some great stuff! – Martin Robinson 01:48 am UTC A Techland game? – Martin Robinson 01:48 am UTC Ah, I'm told that Square Enix is distributing Dyinlg Light 2 in North America. – Martin Robinson 01:50 am UTC Romancing Saga 3 is coming west y'all. – Martin Robinson 01:51 am UTC As is SaGa: Scarlet Grace. – Martin Robinson 01:51 am UTC That's nice. – Martin Robinson 01:52 am UTC A new Brave Exvius - a mobile game, I know, but a good one - is coming. It's called War of the Visions. – Martin Robinson 01:54 am UTC People Can Fly's new game - The Outsiders? - is next up. – Martin Robinson 01:55 am UTC Sorry, Outriders. – Martin Robinson 01:56 am UTC Sebastien - I'm not typing that surname this late tonight - is here to show us more. – Martin Robinson 01:57 am UTC Outriggers! – Martin Robinson 01:57 am UTC OUTRIGGERS! – Martin Robinson 01:57 am UTC What a goddamn video game. I was talking about it earlier as we were killing time in the office by playing Virtua Tennis 2 on our Dreamcast. – Martin Robinson 01:58 am UTC I think Outriggers is a forgotten great. – Martin Robinson 01:58 am UTC Okay, it wasn't great. – Martin Robinson 01:58 am UTC It was interesting though. – Martin Robinson 01:59 am UTC Still can't believe AM2 made a first-person shooter, and it was pretty wild. – Martin Robinson 02:00 am UTC Anyway that was Outrider which we really didn't see too much of. – Martin Robinson 02:00 am UTC Outrigger tho! – Martin Robinson 02:01 am UTC This is Oninaki. – Martin Robinson 02:02 am UTC I'm afraid on the RPG Factory's past form I will not be getting excited for this. – Martin Robinson 02:02 am UTC And now. – Martin Robinson 02:02 am UTC Final Fantasy 8. – Martin Robinson 02:03 am UTC A remaster - coming later this year. – Martin Robinson 02:03 am UTC And now here is Avengers. At last! – Martin Robinson 02:03 am UTC This is the big one. – Martin Robinson 02:04 am UTC Well, it isn't really - FF7 was the big one. But I think people have alos been looking forward to. – Martin Robinson 02:04 am UTC Oh. They haven't got the rights to the actors of the films. – Martin Robinson 02:05 am UTC So... It all looks really weird. And sounds weird. – Martin Robinson 02:05 am UTC It's a bit Lidl. – Martin Robinson 02:06 am UTC They've taken the aesthetic of the Marvel films but couldn't go the whole way. – Martin Robinson 02:06 am UTC When you put it like that it's not so bad. – Martin Robinson 02:07 am UTC Well, the proof is in the pudding. – Martin Robinson 02:07 am UTC And the pudding, Alan, is GAMEPLAY. – Martin Robinson 02:07 am UTC These two pressure pads the presenters are on will hopefully unlock gameplay. – Martin Robinson 02:09 am UTC I kind of hope so. – Martin Robinson 02:11 am UTC Well, we're getting a look at the cast to make us feel less hostile about them lifting the movies aesthetic but stopping short and having weird faces on all the characters. – Martin Robinson 02:11 am UTC But really it'll always look like Poundland Avengers. That's a bad choice someone made there. – Martin Robinson 02:12 am UTC I'd like to see the game now please, because interviews with voice actors won't salvage this. – Martin Robinson 02:12 am UTC They didn't look that happy. – Martin Robinson 02:13 am UTC Here's some content though! It's a weird cutscene! – Martin Robinson 02:13 am UTC Oh this has gone so badly. – Martin Robinson 02:14 am UTC So, to the game - you can play online, there are custom abilities, it's all a bit Destiny. – Martin Robinson 02:15 am UTC A string of free updates, and it is games as a service. Or GAAS. – Martin Robinson 02:15 am UTC Or GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSS – Martin Robinson 02:15 am UTC Or whatever can you just show the game rather than saying there aren't lootboxes in it what even is this. – Martin Robinson 02:16 am UTC It's coming to Xbox One, PS4, Stadia and PC. – Martin Robinson 02:16 am UTC PS4 players will get early beta access and unique benefits can we see the game please. – Martin Robinson 02:17 am UTC It's Ontmon! – Martin Robinson 02:17 am UTC No, we're not seeing anything of the game. It's out next May. – Martin Robinson 02:17 am UTC That was an absolute disaster. I loved it. – Martin Robinson 02:18 am UTC A shitshow for the E3 annals there. – Martin Robinson 02:18 am UTC Still! Final Fantasy 7 Remake looks great. – Martin Robinson 02:19 am UTC I'm honestly heartened by how bad that Avengers showing was - a good old-fashioned E3 shitshow. – Martin Robinson 02:20 am UTC A lovely way to sign off today's E3ing. – Martin Robinson 02:20 am UTC Noel Edmond's Iron Man is one to remember though. – Martin Robinson 02:20 am UTC Thank you for joining us - it's been fun, as ever. And I'm kind of excited to do it all again tomorrow. – Martin Robinson 02:22 am UTC Kami: We doing it for Nintendo tomorrow? Hell yes. – Martin Robinson 02:22 am UTC Now get some sleep everyone! – Martin Robinson Comments Become a Eurogamer subscriber and get your first month for £1 Get your first month for £1 (normally £3.99) when you buy a Standard Eurogamer subscription. Enjoy ad-free browsing, merch discounts, our monthly letter from the editor, and show your support with a supporter-exclusive comment flair! 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