One of my favorite companies right now, Squaresoft (aka Square.) The theater inside featured a fifteen minute or so presentation on the upcoming Squaresoft games, which are:

• Ergheiz, a fighting game with open arenas that includes 4 FF7 characters as fighters
• Saga Frontier 2, which had beautiful hand-drawn backgrounds and tricked me into thinking it was a Seiken Densetsu game at first. I hope it plays better than Saga Frontier. =P
• Chocobo Racing, a racing game that had no footage shown. Aren't there enough fantasy kart racers for the Playstation now? Bomberman Fantasy Race, Crash Team Racing, and now this?
• Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon 2. A really cute collection of CG from the intro.
• Parasite Eve 2, presumably taking place in Los Angeles. "She's Back!" Thanks, but please tell me she's less tedious and can run faster.
• Final Fantasy Collection: Ahh, finally! Final Fantasy 5 in the states! I've been trying to play the translated version on my SNES emulator, but it's a poor substitute for a real console. About time this game comes out over here. Also packed in: Final Fantasy 6, a great game, but not sure if I'd bother playing it again.
• Final Fantasy 8. A game I'm really looking forward to. A beautiful masterpiece, if not terribly deep in terms of nonlinear gameplay.

Another cool thing was that each seat had a little active matrix monitor screen that was hooked up to it that showed additional information, CGs, and was synchronized with the lights in the theater. Overall, a wonderful presentation. Ed really, really wanted one of the nice denim FF8 shirts that the staff was wearing. He kept mentioning it. Did I mention that Ed really wants one of those nice FF8 shirts?