{"id":50762,"date":"2025-08-06T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=50762"},"modified":"2025-08-06T17:21:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:21:54","slug":"final-fantasy-10-remaster-accidentally-replaced-original-games-easter-egg-referencing-a-scrapped-early-prototype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/final-fantasy-10-remaster-accidentally-replaced-original-games-easter-egg-referencing-a-scrapped-early-prototype\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy 10 remaster accidentally replaced original game\u2019s Easter Egg referencing a scrapped early prototype\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While the purpose of remasters is to update older games for modern platforms and new audiences, they are also supposed to preserve the essence of the source material. Square Enix\u2019s <strong>Final Fantasy X\/X-2 HD Remaster<\/strong> does a good job of this, but it also appears to accidentally turn what used to be an Easter Egg into ordinary room decor.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Final Fantasy X Easter egg that was so obscure that even Square Enix didnt recognize it for the Remaster. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qKyvTPEGbm\">pic.twitter.com\/qKyvTPEGbm<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Shesez (Boundary Break) (@BoundaryBreak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BoundaryBreak\/status\/1952542232713818207?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Boundary Break \u2013 a YouTube channel dedicated to finding out-of-bounds secrets in video games \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/x_sEOC_kFnE?si=o5qfDegppslhHJY4&amp;t=124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unearthed<\/a> what was once an obscure Easter Egg in Final Fantasy X. In the original game, Tidus\u2019s room in Zanarkand contains a picture frame displaying artwork from \u201cSeventeen Angelic Impact x Devil&#8217;s Shock\u201d \u2013 the working title of\u00a0a prototype that later turned into Final Fantasy X.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1589\" height=\"893\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1589px) 100vw, 1589px\" data-id=\"50770\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250806-50762-001-1.jpg\" alt=\"Seventeen Angelic Impact x Devil's Shock concept art featured in Final Fantasy X\" class=\"wp-image-50770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250806-50762-001-1.jpg 1589w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250806-50762-001-1-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250806-50762-001-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250806-50762-001-1-1536x863.jpg 1536w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"841\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" data-id=\"50769\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250806-50762-header-2.jpg\" alt=\"Seventeen Angelic Impact x Devil's Shock concept art\" class=\"wp-image-50769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250806-50762-header-2.jpg 550w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250806-50762-header-2-249x380.jpg 249w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/ffx3chat.createaforum.com\/ffx-general\/ffx-early-conceptsdesigns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">early concepts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siliconera.com\/final-fantasy-xs-original-idea-reflections-yoshinori-kitase\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a past interview<\/a> with Final Fantasy X director Yoshinori Kitase, Seventeen Angelic Impact focuses on a character who travels the world in search of a cure for a disease that kills people once they turn 17 years old. A healer character similar to Yuna joins the protagonist to heal those afflicted with the disease. One of the game\u2019s big twists is supposedly that the healer\u2019s efforts are what cause the disease to spread.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Final Fantasy X Used to Look Like THIS?! | FFX Beta Trailer\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H7d_xpulA8Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While Final Fantasy X tells a different story, its main protagonist Tidus looks like a mix of the concept art of Seventeen\u2019s protagonist and the character in the Final Fantasy X beta footage shown at the 2000 Square Millennium Event. As such, SquareSoft likely found it fitting to include a nod to the early Seventeen concept art as a photo frame in the finished game.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, the image in the photo frame is very blurry in the original game, to the point that you can\u2019t tell what exactly is on it unless you\u2019re already familiar with the Seventeen artwork. This might be what caused the remaster\u2019s artists to misinterpret the Easter egg and replace it. Instead of using a higher resolution image of the Seventeen concept art in the remaster, a new image featuring two men armed with weapons stands in its place. When looking at the original asset, you can see how one might mistake the image for a photo of Tidus standing beside another person.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1581\" height=\"886\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1581px) 100vw, 1581px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250806-50762-002.jpg\" alt=\"New photo frame in Final Fantasy X's remaster\" class=\"wp-image-50775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250806-50762-002.jpg 1581w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250806-50762-002-380x213.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250806-50762-002-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250806-50762-002-1536x861.jpg 1536w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The rest of the Boundary Break episode is just as entertaining. While there are no other nods to Seventeen in the remaster aside from the replaced photo frame, it is interesting to see the different techniques Square Enix used to remaster Final Fantasy X.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An obscure detail in Final Fantasy X referenced the concept art of \u201cSeventeen Angelic Impact x Devil&#8217;s Shock.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":50778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36,17],"class_list":["post-50762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-final-fantasy","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Final Fantasy 10 remaster accidentally replaced original game\u2019s Easter Egg referencing a scrapped early prototype\u00a0 - 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