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Cue the victory fanfare. Final Fantasy VII Remake will release on March 3, 2020. Finally.

First announced at E3 2015, this fully reimagined version of one of the greatest video games of all time has long felt more like a delirious fantasy for diehard fans. On Sunday night during a special orchestral concert celebrating the music of Final Fantasy VII, Square Enix unveiled a brand new trailer for the long-simmering Final Fantasy VII Remake in advance of their keynote address on Monday evening. Showcasing a mixture of cinematic cutscenes and live gameplay largely taken from the game’s first mission to infiltrate and destroy a power plant in the bowels of the dystopian megalopolis of Midgar, the trailer ended with the sweetest sequence of numbers since Lost: 03/03/2020.



Now that Final Fantasy VII Remake is actually going to be a reality and not a cruel Truman Show-esque prank targeting me personally, one can expect to get a lot more information about the title at Square Enix’s press conference on Monday evening at 6PM PT. On Twitter, director Tetsuya Nomura said, “We will be making further announcements tomorrow, but for now, please have a look at the short version of the trailer we revealed today.” The trailer, which runs for a minute and change, reveals that the game’s original turn-based combat has been replace by a more modern, active style of combat that looks more in line with Final Fantasy XV‘s combat system. With stunning graphics, especially compared to the original’s notoriously goofy models, and fluid animation, Final Fantasy VII Remake is looking more and more like it was worth the wait. Barrett’s voice is still whack, though, but honestly we should have expected that given his dialogue in the 1997 original.

Not even Ruby Weapon could keep me away from this game. Stay tuned for even more details–as well as all the latest updates from this year’s E3–all week long, right here on Nerdist. In the meantime, I’m going to light a bunch of candles and start my summoning circle to will Final Fantasy Tactics Remake into existence.

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The cancelation of One Day At a Time came as a blow to fans and critics. A campaign to save the show, using the hashtag #SaveODAAT, spread across the Internet, as the fandom spoke of the show’s importance and expressed why it deserved a fourth season. While there has been no movement on that front for a while, at least the show’s creatives and cast are still holding out hope that the show can come back.

“All I can say is that there’s hope — there’s not not hope,” said showrunner Mike Royce at a panel at the ATX Television Festival as reported by Deadline. “I’ve been through three ‘save our show’ campaigns — they didn’t work. This is beyond miracle status. We just need to make sure it works out. We’re talking and we hope to have news sooner rather than later.”

In a video message record for the panel, star Isabella Gomez, she added “We are not dead yet Let these networks know you want us back!”

It’s nice to know that the showrunners and stars haven’t given up hope. The show is an uplifting, joyful, important piece of television, and it deserves to run far longer than for just three seasons. There’s more story to tell. So keep tweeting, keep pushing, and maybe we’ll get a miracle here, because the show deserved to come to an end on the writers’ terms.

Do you want to see One Day At a Time return? What network should pick it up?

(via Deadline, image: Netflix)

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Ever since Respawn’s ambitious new Star Wars game was announced back in 2016, fans have been desperate to discover everything that they can about the newest addition to the ever-sprawling canon. At Star Wars: Celebration, we got our first look at Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, as well as the backstory and motivations of protagonist Cal Kestis (Gotham’s Cameron Monaghan.) On Saturday morning at EA Play, the first event of this year’s E3 Expo, we got our biggest look yet with almost 15 minutes of incredible gameplay that gave us a huge insight into the upcoming game.

If you’re reading this then you probably know all about Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, but in case you’re just discovering the game, it is a single-player action adventure game that takes place in the wake of Order 66 and the events of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith during a time where the Jedi are being hunted down and systematically murdered.  You play as Cal Kestis, a Jedi on the run, who takes on the Empire with the aid of his Force powers and some unexpected allies. “Three hours after the game starts, Cal has built himself up, he’s no longer a lowly padawan but he’s not a Jedi,” according to the livestream.



The live gameplay demo took us to the wartorn Wookiee planet of Kashyyk as Cal teams up with Saw Gerrera, the radical rebel from Rogue One, who sends the young Jedi on a mission to save the Wookiees who have been enslaved by the Empire and forced to cut down wroshyr trees the resin to create “a powerful compound.” We saw a variety of Force powers, ranging from opening doors to creating bridges by pushing over obstacles to Force pushing enemies into one another. It’s a Star Wars game, so there’s also some satisfying lightsaber action with Cal wielding his own blue blade to slice through unsuspecting stormtroopers and Kashyyk’s “multilayered deathtrap” ecosystem.

There are plenty of deep-cut Star Wars references featured in the gameplay demo, including a sequence in which Cal is battling snarling Wyyyschokk, giant Kashyykian spiders that first featured in the Jedi Academy series, before being brought into contemporary canon in The Force Awakens novelization. We also got our best look yet at the newly created Purge Troopers who are under the control of the Inquisitors and Second Sister, one of the game’s major villains who you might recognize from the Star Wars comics. Clad in black armor, these intimidating enemies wield massive quarterstaffs that emanate a sinister purple energy at either end. However, the most exciting inclusion of all is Cal’s droid bud BD-1, who rides on his back like a little robot Yoda and can help provide important environmental information and hack into Imperial technology to help you navigate your surroundings.

The creators were quick to explain that the game is completely canon and the characters “will live in other places.” It seems like the game won’t give the usual choice from Star Wars games of being able to choose the light side or the dark but that doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ll be light… as Cal is doing a whole lot of killing in the sequence we saw.

We will continue to report on Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order as the story develops. The game will release on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows PC on November 15, 2019. Be sure to stay tuned to Nerdist all week long for the latest stories coming out of this year’s E3.

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