Square Enix has announced that arguably the greatest Final Fantasy of all time (depending on who you talk to), Final Fantasy VI, is now available on Android via the Google Play Store. The game is compatible with Android 3.2 but is recommended for use with Android 4.0 and up. It retails for $15.99.

Featuring recreated graphics and new touch screen controls, Square Enix has also overhauled the battle system. Best of all, the remake’s visuals were supervised by original graphic designer Kazuko Shibuya. So it’s not like All The Bravest (and we don’t mean in terms of tons of micro-transactions either).

Also, all the events and magicites brought to the 2006 remake will also be included. You can also use the Album feature in order to catch up on the story. Multiple supported languages means that just about any one can enjoy the game. Check out the recently released screenshots below and let us know whether you’ll be picking it up for Android.

The Final Fantasy re-releases keep on coming and frankly, I’m not complaining. If you have not played the much lauded Final Fantasy VI yet, and if so – shame on you, then fret not misguided gamer as a PSN release is on the way! Well, that is, if you can speak Japanese… An announcement on Square Enix’s twitter said that, following massive demand, FFVI will be coming to Japan’s PSN on April 20th. Seeing as most of the other Final Fantasy games have been seeing English language re-release recently, not to mention the immense popularity of the game in question, then it would not be unreasonable to guess that FFVI could be reaching us very soon…

Thanks to IGN for the info.

Final Fantasy 6 (or 3 as it was known during its original US launch) is set for release on the Wii’s virtual console this friday. The game needs no introduction and can be yours for the paltry sum of 900 wii points.

Final Fantasy is joined on the Wii Shop by Bingo Party Deluxe for 500 Wii Points.

On the DSiWare front, RTS Castle Conqueror will be available for 500 Nintendo DSi Points as well as 5 in 1 Mahjong for 200 Nintendo DSi Points.

Finally Arctic Escape (for 500 Nintendo DSi Points) sees you taking control of a group of penguins as they try to make their way back to Antarctica after being abducted by a cunning scientist.

We all know which is the real winner out of these games.

Thanks to ONM for the info.

So if anyone here was feeling reasonably confident after the wild success of the DS remakes of Final Fantasy III and IV that V and VI for the quirky handheld couldn’t be that far off, think again. As per Square Enix, the remakes were supposed to be underway for the DS and the DSi, but the development teams ran into several technical issues, presumably the DS/DSi’s limited RAM, dated processor and the restrictions that the small DS carts (with a maximum size of 256 MB so far) place upon game development.

However, this does not indicate the end of the road for some modern, stylised remakes of the old classics. As Square Enix’s Shinji Hashimoto said at this year’s E3, “Rather than creating [Final Fantasy] V or VI for the current DS we want to take a look to see how 3DS does, how it evolves, and then make a decision.”

Of course, by ‘how it evolves,’ Hashimoto is probably referring to just how succesful the 3DS will eventually be. He needn’t really worry about that, though. Considering the total dominance Nintendo’s handhelds have usually experienced, I think it is reasonable to suppose that the 3DS will be a mega hit as well.

This of course means that we can look forward to some high quality remakes of these beloved classics sometime soon in the future. And unlike the DS remakes, which were largely divisive, due in large part to the graphical designs that had been imposed upon them by the DS’s 3D challenged hardware, this time, we’ll get the full fledged experience, which these games truly deserve.