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GRIN's 'unreleased masterpiece' was a Final Fantasy game codenamed 'Fortress'

by David Hinkle on Aug 20th 2009 10:59AM

GRIN closed its doors last week, causing a flood of ex-staffers to put their work online in the hopes of scoring a job. Tomislav Spajic is one of those former employees and has confirmed on his LinkedIn profile that GRIN's "unreleased masterpiece" was actually a Final Fantasy game for Square Enix. Yeah, we can hardly believe it, too.

In fact, Spajic's personal site has a whole bunch of concept art and one of the games listed (called "Fortress") is likely the Final Fantasy game for Square Enix. We've seen it on other ex-GRINners' LinkedIn pages, like Erik Lindqvist's here, where Lindqvist flat-out says, "During 2009 I've been working on the preproduction for an unannounced, and now canceled project with the production name 'Fortress' for Square Enix."

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Tags: Erik-Lindqvist, final-fantasy, fortress, grin, rpg, square-enix, Tomislav-Spajic

Reader Comments (33)

Masterpiece...or masterpiece of sh!t like Bionic Commando

YOUR WIFE IS YOUR A-

ah, forget it

Bad Economy suxx0rz b0xx0rz. Dot.

I'll assume you didn't graduate high school yet, writing like that.

There is something called a "joke" you know?

I'll assume you actually meant:

"I'll assume you *haven't* graduate high school yet, writing like that."

Muphry's law - suck on it.

I'll assume you actually meant...

"I'll assume you haven't *graduated* high school yet, writing like that."

And I'll assume you actually meant:

"I'll assume you *haven't* *graduated* *from* high school yet, writing like that."

Oh god, so much fail. =(

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@Kdiggy - holy crap lol

My sympathies to the developers who lost their jobs, but this does not reflect well on Square Enix.

Squeenix continues to dilute the Final Fantasy brand by outsourcing development to teams like Grin, which is not exactly a AAA development house.

I think the logic is that several developers such as squeenix and capcom have realized that the japanese mainstream has lost touch with what the western gamers want, so to try and appeal to them they go to a western studio.

Could they have chosen someone better than grin? Sure (Maybe... Eidos? >.>) but the logic of the situation is understandable.

Anyways. I hope the new studio formed from GRIN members, or another competent studio picks this up. Looks great, and more Ivalice is always good.

Why were they even working on a FF? Haven't Square got enough of their own planned?

lol.

We finally both comment on the same blog entry.

Edit: No need for that kind of language.

maybe a final fantasy game that caters exclusivly towards western gamers. with a name like fortress i wouldnt be suprised

honestly? I just want 13 already! Why does Square insist on showing off their games like 5 years before they're released.. ya we all THINK we want to see it.. but in reality all anyone wants is to play it!
14 looks great too...

So, a Final Fantasy game in 4hrs?

Ahh, no thank you.

You didn't play FFIV: The After Years, did you?

It was awesome; it was a Final Fantasy; it was about 4 hours long.

More of a jab at Wanted, not FF, really.

Kotaku were giving off the impression this was a sequel to FF12( which I kinda doubt a main series game would be outsourced) but have Square ever even outsourced games.
Just it doesn't make sense. Why would SE outsource a FF game, and to grin? especially as they have Eidos if they really wanted a western made FF game.
I guess unless SE come out and confirm or deny this we will never know if it was a FF game or just a RPG like game that was to be published by them.

still waiting for squeenix to produce a good game on a next gen console, outsourced or not. i'm excited as hell for ff13, but part of me is bracing myself for disappointment.

i wonder if it was multiplatform

What a beautiful baby....let's call him Tomislav....

Abortion.

They were a Swedish development studio. You expect an employee to have an American name? 'Tomislav' is a very common Slavic name.

lighten up Francis...

Masterpiece, my ass. If it was really so great, Square would've helped keep the dev team going.

That's one Final Fantasy that actually is final.

yeah shit happens.. I was hoping on finishing that project, would have been cool....

hey im not swedish, I am actually croatian! =) cheers

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