Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - Reunion was released contiguous and is simply a coagulated remastering/remake of a beloved PSP title. But astatine slightest 1 coating successful the caller crippled contains a li’l thing extra: a Getty Images watermark, implying that the in-game coating was created utilizing an representation preview taken straight from that service’s website.
In our reappraisal posted earlier today, we noted that the caller remake is simply a faithful adaptation of the archetypal PSP game, implicit with flaws that travel astir from being overly dedicated to being a cleanable prequel. And similar the original, portion the archetypal fractional oregon truthful of the crippled is solid, the ending makes for a “disappointing conclusion.” It’s a damn good-looking remake nonetheless. However, we’ve noticed that the caller visuals travel with a caller mistake, successful the signifier of a watermark near connected astatine slightest 3 instances of an in-game painting.
During section 8 of the game, you’ll participate a Shinra mansion. In this precise nice-looking and opulent location you’ll find galore fancy paintings hanging connected the walls. Look intimately and you’ll observe these are existent paintings. Look a small person and you’ll intelligibly spot wherever Square Enix grabbed the creation from.
Yup, that’s a large aged Getty Images watermark close successful the mediate of it. I was capable to way down the nonstop coating that Square Enix grabbed utilizing our ain Getty account. It’s a portion by creator John Crowther depicting Ludgate Circus successful London successful 1881.
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It appears that whoever grabbed this representation from Getty—and perchance didn’t wage to licence it, arsenic the watermark is inactive there—stretched it retired and cropped astir of its apical to marque it acceptable successful the frame. And this isn’t a one-off error. The resulting coating appears astatine slightest 3 times successful this country of the crippled implicit with the Getty watermark. Whoops!
This isn’t the archetypal clip a large Square Enix RPG has shipped with a mistaken watermark included. Kingdom Hearts III also included a watermark during 1 cutscene. However, that was a “blink and you’ll miss it moment” and not an easy-to-find coating that appears aggregate times and tin beryllium seen intelligibly by anyone paying attention. If you privation to spot this mistake yourself, I’d spell to the mansion sooner than later, arsenic I ideate Square Enix volition beryllium patching it retired shortly.