Final Fantasy Fortress: the Cancelled RPG by Grin

Final Fantasy Fortress is a cancelled action RPG that was being developed by Grin in 2008 and 2009 to be published by Square-Enix on Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. Grin’s past game never had a big impact on the market, but you probably remember them as the team behind such games as Bionic Commando Rearmed and the Bionic Commando reboot. While Grin were developing Bionic Commando for Capcom, Yoichi Wada from Square Enix visited their offices and loved what he saw and proposed to Grin to create a new game together. Initially Square Enix invited Grin to pitch a game based on their japanese card game Lords of Vermilion, but later they decided to use the Final Fantasy name. To let a western team to develop a Final Fantasy title was quite an extraordinary event at the time, the main chapters in the Final Fantasy series were still turn-based and Fortress could have been released way before Final Fantasy XV.