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Square Enix franchises

  • SaGaSaGa began in 1989 with the first role-playing game on a handheld console.
  • Fabula Nova Crystallis Final FantasyFabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy began as a mythology, not a game. Kazushige Nojima wrote a bible of gods for it.
  • Compilation of Final Fantasy VIIBefore Crisis, a Final Fantasy VII mobile game, never left Japan. Phones in North America could not run it.
  • Kingdom HeartsKingdom Hearts began with a chance elevator meeting between a Square producer and a Disney executive.
  • Life Is StrangeIn Life Is Strange, a student rewinds time after seeing her friend shot. Max Caulfield then tries to save Chloe Price.
  • Final Fantasy Crystal ChroniclesThe original Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles needed a Game Boy Advance for each multiplayer player.
  • Mana (series)The Mana series began as a side story to Final Fantasy. Square's 1991 Game Boy game carried that name.
  • Black ButlerIn Black Butler, a demon ignores a cult's summoning and answers a twelve-year-old boy's call instead.
  • Fullmetal AlchemistTwo brothers try to bring their mother back in Fullmetal Alchemist, and lose a leg and a whole body.
  • Soul EaterAtsushi Ohkubo's manga Soul Eater runs on a strict counting rule. A living weapon must absorb the souls of 99 evil humans, followed by one witch, in exactly that order. Break the sequence and the tally starts over from zero. A rule like…
  • Final FantasyHironobu Sakaguchi planned to quit games if Final Fantasy failed. The 1987 role-playing game saved Square instead.

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