Japanese netizens are quick to point out that images on The Last Story’s box art look incredibly similar to character art for Square Enix’s most recent role-playing games, Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Final Fantasy XIII.
Of course, The Last Story was not developed by Square Enix, but rather, by Sakaguchi’s own studio Mistwalker and AQ Interactive. And, of course, The Last Story sounds a bit like Final Fantasy.
The image of Last Story hero Elza looks very similar to Final Fantasy Versus XIII protagonist Noctis. Eagle eyes have pointed out similarities, going as far to even overlay the Elza image on top of the corresponding Noctics art.
What’s more, netizens also noted that the image of Last Story heroine Stella looks incredibly similar to that of Final Fantasy XIII’s Lightning, once again even overlaying the images to see how they match up.
Final Fantasy versus, indeed.
『パンドラの塔』パッケージアートにトレース疑惑浮上？あまりにも似すぎててヤバイ！ [へちま速報＠ゲーハー板]
Jimu Hsien
Monday, April 18, 2011 at 8:07 PMSo now we’re raggin on guys for copying they’re own inventions even though they never do VISUAL ART.
I like you…
OniLink99999
Monday, April 18, 2011 at 8:09 PMUmm…Brian? You do release that this is the box art for Pandora’s Tower, not Last Story, right? Sakaguchi has nothing to do with this one =P This is the Last Story: http://img593.imageshack.us/i/39535225.png/sr=1
And the box art you’ve linked to is for Pandora’s Tower, Nintendo’s upcoming God of War style game on the Wii.
You might wanna fix that ;)
TJ
Monday, April 18, 2011 at 8:51 PMSakaguchi is not even involved with this project.
Jimu Hsien
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 10:59 AMOh my god…RESEARCH!
Mr Waffle
Monday, April 18, 2011 at 8:11 PMBREAKING NEWS GENERIC PRETTYBOY ART IN TWO GENERIC PRETTYBOY GAMES IS SIMILAR, NEWS AT ELEVEN
Nort
Monday, April 18, 2011 at 10:31 PMI think Mr Waffle is a pretty cool guy.
Becca
Monday, April 18, 2011 at 8:26 PMwho cares. their cutscenes and games are good.
Mike Rotch
Monday, April 18, 2011 at 9:33 PMlmao no
Steve0410
Monday, April 18, 2011 at 10:58 PMJRPGs… so unoriginal and creatively bankrupt they’re even ripping off each other.
mowgli
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 12:41 AMSo why can’t western developers make games look this good?
Aria
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 12:41 AMIs this article a joke? If it’s not an extremely, extremely late April Fools joke then it needs to be fixed ASAP. As someone else already pointed out, that isn’t even the art to The Last Story. It is Pandora’s Tower, which has nothing to do with the creator of Final Fantasy. How about getting the facts straight before ripping on Sakaguchi and Mistwalker? Secondly, “Stella” isn’t the name of TLS’s heroine but, rather, Versus’ heroine. And, really, people have never before seen two anime/video game characters look similar facial-wise or stand in a similar pose?
Wil
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 2:49 AMName is pretty much a rip off too.
Final Fantasy
Last Story
Someone from Microsoft now needs to come up with another game called End Tale or something then it will be complete.
Aria
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 11:55 PMThe title Final Fantasy was ripped off? Oh, so the guy who came up with that title ripped himself off. BIG DEAL :/
And, why is Microsoft being brought into the conversation? The Last Story is a Nintendo IP, not a Microsoft one(not that Nintendo had anything to do with titling the game to begin with anyway). Maybe you meant Mistwalker?
Matt
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 5:34 AMWell PES has been copying fifa for years!
(When you make alot of the same limited art style/genre, you are bound to get similarities)
Dark_Templar
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 11:17 AMArticle Fail