If you're a big (or closet) fan of the upcoming brawler game Dissidia: Final Fantasy for the Sony PSP, you'll be glad to hear that two big names are confirmed.
Tidus, the main character of Final Fantasy X, and Jecht, his father, have been announced as playable characters. In recent interviews Tetsuya Nomura has said that he has drawn the characters in a way to reduce the age gaps between them, noting character interactions as a motivation.
"This project features characters from different FF games conversing with each other, so I was careful that there wouldn't be a great deal of age difference between all of them," Nomura said in an interview with Famitsu. "I drew Tidus to look younger than he did in FFX to match the design touch of the rest of Dissidia."
He goes on to say:
"One theme of this project was giving the younger staff a chance to shine. Even if it's not exactly an RPG, I'm glad we were able to give these people who used to be Final Fantasy's target audience a chance to work on a new FF-related project. It's been hard, though! I'm staying fairly hands-off on this project, so even if I have my opinions, I'm leaving it to the rest of the staff."
Dissidia is roughly 50% complete. So far a cast of 20 playable characters has been announced but the final tally is rumored to sit at 100. Eager gamers will get a playable demo at this summer's Square Enix DKS3713 event in August.
Xin 2011-01-18 2 comments
Dissidia012 also made some news today, with the reveal of two new characters and the announcement of a special prologue to the main title. Dissidia012: Prologus will feature events before the main game, and acts as a sort of mega-demo. Those who purchase will also be able to use Aerith (FFVII) as a support character in 012. As for the...
Xin 2010-12-24 2 comments
It is, supposedly, the most wonderful time of the year, and SquareEnix are in a giving kind of mood. Their present to you this year: the JumpFESTA trailer for Dissidia 012 The trailer is definitely a bit more story heavy than the previous ones, but since I don't understand what they're saying, we'll skip that for now. That doesn't mean...
Xin 2010-12-08 4 comments
It's been a longgg time. How have you been? Myself? Well, school and work take a toll on time these days, but enough about me...You want to know about games, don't you? I thought so, so let's pick things up with the latest character for Dissidia012. I must say, I was quite disappointed when they chose Vaan over Balthier for...
I really hope this game gets an English release. Even if it doesn't, I'll probably import it. It just would be nice to be able to understand whatever it is that they're yelling at each other.
Yeah, I'm sure they'll skip on giving one of their biggest franchise's biggest audiences (if not THE) a game that incorporates characters from every game in the series...>_>
Umm... that comment broke my sarcasm meter. Anyway, that's pretty much what they did with the Itadaki Street games for the PS2 and PSP.
I'm not going to lie, I'm getting pretty jazzed about this game. I'll wait for more trailers and gameplay info first, though.
I'm rather curious about this game but it will either be great or it will suck...let's just wait and see ;)
Sucky or not, it will be worth it just to be able to beat in the heads of some of the more annoying characters from the games. I hope that they have some summons that you can play as. I'd love to kick Tidus' butt as Ifrit.
Will this demo be released on PS store or will it inly be at the event?
Knowing Square's history with demos, I would be surprised to see it released on the PSN Store. But maybe if enough of us send them annoying emails pleading for it.....?
I like that this game will (hopefully) try to put the characters on more equal ground. People always assume that heroes like Tidus won't be any sort of a match for heroes like Cloud, simply because of the differences of their individual games. But I don't think that's necessarily the case. On the other hand, I hope they don't even them out unrealistically either.
Umm... of course Cloud would beat Tidus. Have you seen the size of his sword???
lol kewh. 100 characters, that's quite a number. I'd like to play this game for that alone, to be able to play as 100 different FF characters wow. It'll be fun to see their strengths compared to one another,
I hope they give everyone their respected strength's and weaknesses.. that way it's more like a RPG. I also hope they look different then originally, (like Cloud in KH.) Too bad it's limited to the PsP, which I don't own or plan to own.