There was a moment during the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Nintendo Switch 2 Direct where I stopped everything I was doing, leaned in super hard, and pushed down on that volume button until my bones ached – and it was all because, for♕ three whole, long seconds, I thought Final Fantasy 9's Princess Garnet/Dagger was on 🔯screen.

But it wasn't to be. What was actually on screen was Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster – coming to the Switch 2 as a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:launch game this summer – and one of it✃s four centr🍨al characters, Agnes, who shares a few features with Dagger: she has long brown hair, is from a Square Enix game, and, at least in the announcement trailer below, wears a bright dress similar to some of Dagger's fits.

Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster – Announcement trailer (༺Nintendo Switch 2) - YouT🦩ube

I wasn't the only one who freaked out, though. 🌠I've seen tons of other people joke about how they were fooled by the trailer's opening shots, which sho🎶w Agnes' back with Square Enix's logo printed in big letters on top.

And a new compilation proves I wasn't totally out of my mind. Anyone who has any love for the best Final Fantasy (yes, it is) or an♊yone who's heard of the long, long rumored remake also seems to have had the same idea.

If you're unfamiliar, mentions of a Final Fantasy 9 remake were found in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:a Nvidia leak from years ago, which𒆙 happened to have held legi💃timate information about then-future games like Helldivers 2, PC ports for exclusives like God of War, and hard-to-guess remakes/remasters for games like Actraiser and Destroy All Humans 2.

Since then, speculation about a Final Fantasy 9 refre♒sh of some kind has been nearly non-stop. Final Fantasy 14 had some unignorable references to the classic game that director Naoki Yoshida later said he was unsure about eꩲven including because of the fanbase's attachment to it.

More recently, Square Enix created a 25th ဣanniversary website for Final Fantaꦅsy 9 in preparation for "various projects" around its milestone birthday, so a remake is looking m🍨ore and more like𒈔ly by the day.

With its Nintendo Switch 2 remaster on the horizon, Bravely Default producer hopes "we can carry on this lineage into the future"