Brendan 2006-12-20 0 comments
The concept artist for the recently announced Dragon Quest IX: Defenders of the Sky, as wells as Draqon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors, spoke out about his thoughts on the game, his input, and expresses his renewed interest the series. At 51 years old, Toriyama is one of the oldest concept artists out there. Here...
Brendan 2006-12-19 0 comments
Square Enix confirmed today that they will not be taking advantage of the Nintendo DS’s Wi-Fi technical capabilities. This action was announced in the decision to drop the function from its upcoming Front Mission DS port. Also, Square Enix has reportedly scrapped the multiplayer mode from the recently announced and still undated Seiken Densetsu: Heroes of Mana. Square Enix cited...
Brendan 2006-12-18 0 comments
An early translation of the Final Fantasy XIII trailer from JUMP FESTA has found itself across the web, casting the first rays of light upon the plot and world of Final Fantasy XIII. Taken from FinalFantasy-XIII.org, the first plot points—and thanks to a camera phone—a second character, and the floating city, have been met with description. The translation is as...
Brendan 2006-12-18 0 comments
At JUMP FESTA this past weekend, in Square Enix's closed theater, at the same time the company was parading a new trailer of Final Fantasy XIII around, it also showed a clip reel of its Kingdom Hearts series, including the upcoming Final Mix. I might be taking undue liberty, but the text "New Project Starting in 2007" appeared after the...
Brendan 2006-12-18 0 comments
There's no substantive news here besides my resounding disappointment that Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII, is conspicuously missing from any JUMP FESTA news and major coverage. Has the crisis stalled out before it even began? The game concluded last year in Japan, and Square Enix has expertly avoided speaking about it with a frenzy of new games. English Demos and...
Brendan 2006-12-18 0 comments
This weekend IGN was able to get some quality time in with the next Crystal Chronicles entry for the Nintendo DS. Their preview offers the first interactions with the playable form of Ring of Fates, the sequel to the 2003/2004 Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. In it they describe stylus control, items, and battle. A select portion is contained below. Gameplay...
Brendan 2006-12-18 0 comments
Square Enix announced this weekend at JUMP FESTA a third title in the Ivalice Alliance series; a sequel to the GameBoy Advance game Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. This next installment: Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2: Fuuketsu no Guurimore will be for the Nintendo hand-held portable DS. The Ivalice Alliance also includes Final Fantasy XII Revenant Wings for the DS, and...
Brendan 2006-12-17 0 comments
So I stop watching the wily Square Enix for a day and this is how they repay me? Don't they know I have finals to be studying for? Oh well. JUMP FESTA has given me a reason to stay away from the books and I entirely plan to exploit it. Anyways, several new trailers were debuted over the weekend, and...
Brendan 2006-12-15 0 comments
The latest installment in Square Enix’s power-house franchise packs an unforgettable punch that undeniably proves that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Ivalice is a land at war; the Archadian Empire has initiated a brutal crack-down on its neighbors in order to compete with the Rozarrian Empire in the west. The latest to fall into Archadia’s...
kula shakerz 2006-12-13 0 comments
Nintendo's DS isn't the only handheld getting a Square Enix title this week. Square announced today that they plan to re-release the PlayStation 1 hit Final Fantasy Tactics on the Sony PSP. The remake titled Final Fantasy Tactics: Shishi Sensou (The Lion Wars) will contain several new features such as new jobs and new movie sequences. Cel-shading will be used...
sifar 2006-12-12 0 comments
Today, Square Enix held a press conference in Tokyo to inform the public on the current projects that they have planned for their Dragon Quest line of games and to commemorate the series' 20th Anniverysary. The event started with a movie that showed footage of the earliest of Dragon Quest games, followed by an opening speech by Series Inventor, Yuji...
Brendan 2006-12-12 0 comments
Square's apparently not about to let it's centerpiece of the Fabula Nova Crystallis project be overshadowed by Versus, so a development video of an aerial city of sorts from Final Fantasy XIII has emerged on the web. Check it out here. +1 for Sifar :p
Brendan 2006-12-12 0 comments
The scores are in from this week's Famitsu, the game industry magazine that takes it upon itself to autocratically set the standard and impressions of newly released games in Japan. There's good and bad news for everyone's favorite Final Fantasy mascot, the Chocobo. The good news: its score is higher than Dirge of Cerberus; the bad news: only by 5...
Brendan 2006-12-12 0 comments
The numbers are out and Final Fantasy VI Advance is the reigning portable-console game in Japan this week, having sold 137,810 copies so far. Final Fantasy VI Advance has out sold Pokemon Diamond, Jump Ultimate Stars, and Oshare Majo Love and Berry, in figures this week, but the later three still dwarf the Square Enix title. Here's to hoping it'll...
sifar 2006-12-08 0 comments
Square Enix has released the first trailer for Final Fantasy Versus XIII on their Members Page on the Japanese side of the official site. The trailer, entirely in CG, shows us the mood and environment that we can expect from the game. This title is being worked on by the group that brought us the Kingdom Hearts line of games...