MarketTantrik Posted December 24, 2007 Report Share Posted December 24, 2007 FINAL FANTASY : DISSIDIA Developer : Square Enix Publisher : Square Enix Release Date : BA Genre : Fighting / Battle Platform : PSP Media : UMD Background Dissidia: Final Fantasy (ディシディア ファイナルファンタジー, Dishidia Fainaru Fantajī) is an action game currently in development by Square Enix for the PlayStation Portable as part of the campaign of the Final Fantasy series 20th anniversary. Information on the game was first released during the "Square Enix Party" event of May 2007. It is unknown if the game will be released outside of Japan, although the trademark Dissidia was registered by Square Enix in North America on April 6, 2007. Characters The game will reunite characters from installments of the main Final Fantasy series, including a Warrior of Light and Garland from the first game, Firion and Emperor Palamecia from Final Fantasy II, Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII, Squall Leonhart and Ultimecia from Final Fantasy VIII, Zidane and Kuja from Final Fantasy IX, and Tidus of Final Fantasy X. Chaos will make an appearance as the god of darkness, while a new character, Cosmos, will appear as the goddess of light. Recent scans released in Japanese magazines have stated that the game will have a storyline that requires playing through all of the characters to complete. There will be a minimum of ten main characters (not including their villain counterparts) including the above mentioned. Hidden characters may be possible. Characters can gain customizable equipment. Battle system At the Jump Festa 2008 demo, there were 4 characters playable: Warrior of Light (FFI), Frioniel (FFII), Squall (FFVIII), and Zidane (FFIX). There was a normal mode and a hard mode to the demo, People were able to choose if they wanted to play single against the CPU, or versus against another person. The overall objective of the game is to reduce your opponent’s HP to zero. The way to do that is to attack them, but there are two kinds of attack: The HP attack using the square button and the assist attack using the circle button. The HP attack directly damages your opponent’s HP while the assist attack drains your opponent’s Brave, the attack power, while increasing yours. The raw number of Brave is the amount you will inflict to your opponent with a single HP attack. The assist attack can be combo’d while the HP attack is a single hit. When the opponent’s Brave is deplenished, they turn into a state called BREAK. Your own Brave rises significantly during that time. By picking up the item called EX force that appears in the stage, the character’s EX guage fills up. Pressing Square and X when it’s full turns on the EX mode. When you land a combo during the EX mode, a guide flashes on the screen to press square. This unleashes the unavoidable EX burst special move, which is like a limit break kind of thing that heavily damages the HP. e.g.Zidane’s rapid combo EX burst asks you to rapidly press the circle button. By doing so, it said “Perfect” inflicted the maximum damage possible. Characters are able to move very freely in the 3D stages. By pressing Triangle at various points of the stage when a guide appears, the character will make a special maneuver such as running along a wall, sliding on a rail, and jumping high on to a ledge. You have to be careful you don’t fall into a Dejon Trap though, which decreases your Brave points. The Dejon Traps are like bottomless pits. There are several tactics the player should be aware of in battle. Moving around and jumping is essential. Some characters even have triple jumps. The characters have a different set of attacking methods: HP attacks and Assist attacks without pressing a direction, HP attacks and Assist attacks while pressing a direction, HP attacks and Assist attacks in the air and so on. These attacks are significantly different from each other as some attacks are short range while some are long range, some are fast to initiate, while some are slow. The R button is guard and pressing X with R is a quick dodge. Development Dissidia was introduced in an American trademark on April 6, 2007, where relation to Final Fantasy was omitted. Some sites speculated this was an edition of Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy XIII. The title was connected with Final Fantasy when Square Enix introduced Dissidia: Final Fantasy on May 9, 2007 with an official Japanese website. The game is being directed by Yousuke Shiokawa and will feature music by Takeharu Ishimoto. Takeshi Nozue will be the movie director. Screenies All info in this post comes from the FF : Dissidia page at Wikipedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketTantrik Posted December 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2007 IGN previews FF:Dissidia From IGN _____________________________________________ Final Fantasy Dissidia Rules Tokyo We walk away impressed after twenty minutes with the Final Fantasy fighter. by Anoop Gantayat December 22, 2007 - The phrase "they've done it again" seems to apply perfectly to this situation. I go the Jump Festa event today at the Makuhari Messe convention hall just outside of Tokyo, I line up to play a PSP game that everyone pretty much assumed would suck from the start, and I'm totally blown away. Last time this happened, I got to share with everyone the sheer awesomeness of Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core. This time, the game at hand is Final Fantasy Dissidia. It goes against what everyone was expecting, but the Final Fantasy fighting game is way up on my most wanted list after I sampled it for 20 minutes today. Calling Dissidia a fighting game may have people picturing a one-on-one fighter viewed from the side. Dissidia is actually more of a fusion of one-on-one fighting and 3D combat. The camera doesn't stay fixed to the side of your character, nor does it remain behind your character's back. Your opponent may not always be in view. The game has all the control options required for both free-roaming 3D combat and fixed one-on-one fighting style combat. You can lock on to your enemy with a press of the L trigger, jump and double jump with X, and guard and evade with the R trigger. Camera controls are up on the D-pad, making it a bit unrealistic for use during a fight, but I didn't have too many problems with camera angles once I was locked into my opponent There's a major twist in how you go about actually damaging your opponent. You have two attack buttons. Pressing circle in combination with the analogue stick unleashes one form of attack. But rather than draining your opponent's HP, it drains your opponent's "Brave," which is just Squenix-speak for attack power. To deal actual damage to your opponent's HP, you use the square button, again in combination with analogue stick motions. The resulting physical attacks eat up the Brave that you've just stolen. The tug of war between Brave appears to be central to combat. The game rewards you with massive amounts of Brave when you manage to make your opponent's Brave meter drain down to zero, an event called a "Brave Break." The more Brave you have, the more damage your attacks do. Classic Final Fantasy characters in this display from Jump You also have an EX gauge which fills up as you battle. When this reaches max, you can perform a wild special move that fills the screen with colors and lights and deals massive damage to your opponent. In addition to dealing blows to your opponent, you also have to figure out how to best use the stages to your advantage. The battle fields aren't like those of your typical fighting game. Instead, they feel more like the stages of a 3D platformer, with multiple surfaces over which to fight, all at different heights. Some stages have bottomless pits between fighting planes; fall into these, and you incur damage. The environments are semi-destructible. Do a particularly strong move, and you'll end up knocking down columns and platforms. They regenerate after a brief period of time, building up gradually into their original form. Navigating such varied and variable terrain may seem tough, and it will be if your triangle button happens to be broken. When you traverse key areas of the battle field, usually near walls, the triangle button icon will flash on the screen. This flashing is called a "map hint." The game is telling you that by pressing the triangle button, your character will perform some acrobatic maneuver that's straight out of Final Fantasy VII Advent Children. If you're in the vicinity of a wall, pressing triangle will make your character run up the wall. He'll keep on running up the wall as long as you hold the triangle button down. I also got my character to perform a brief air glide in some situations. You can use these special map maneuvers in various ways. If you fall off a ledge and into a bottomless pit of death, you can recover by doing a midair jump towards the wall then climbing up with triangle. You can also climb up seemingly impossibly high cliffs to reach new fighting platforms. The similarities to Advent Children's acrobatic, gravity-defying combat are unmistakable. A trailer shown separately from the demo had a pre-rendered CG sequence in which FFX's Tidus and FF7's Sephiroth raced up a cliff, exchanging blows, just like in the film. I couldn't confirm if the characters in Dissidia can exchange blows while climbing up walls, as I was unable to get my character into a parallel wall climb with an opponent. With all these formula twists, I was left questioning if there was ever an actual pre-existing formula for Dissidia's gameplay. Rather than trying to adapt the Final Fantasy characters into some existing fighting game formula, the designers of Dissidia seem to have attempted to create an original fighting engine around the Final Fantasy characters -- at least the characters as they'd probably combat one-another in a Tetsuya Nomura movie. Does it work, or is it a confusing mess? That's a bit hard to determine after just 20 minutes of play. However, I did feel myself getting the hang of things the more I played. Square Enix had the game's demonstration set up exclusively for single player play, with access to four fighters: FF1's Warrior of Light, FF8's Squall, FF9's Zidane, and a character from FF2. Artwork outside the booth hinted that the Judge character from the Ivalice series of titles (FFXII, Tactics, etc ) will appear in the game. And, as mentioned above, the CG footage shown in the trailer had Tidus and Sephiroth doing combat. This isn't official confirmation, but it seems to be a strong hint. The demo had a few elements that I couldn't properly try out due to my limited play time. When first starting off, you're able to select between "normal" and "hard" combat modes. Hard seems to add completely new moves depending on the character. Strangely, in multiplayer mode, these combat modes are referred to as "standard" and "technical," even though the move sheet handed out by Square Enix suggests that they're the same move sets as in single player play. While the demo consisted of four isolated one-on-one fights, there are some hints of a more progressive experience. After a battle, as the classic Final Fantasy fanfare rolls, you're rewarded with gill and "AP" points. When selecting your character from the select screen, the character description lists the required experience for your character reaching a next level. Obviously a hint at character customization. On top of what appears to be a complex combat experience for single and multiple players, Dissidia also manages to push the PSP to new visual heights. The game is a visual feast, with detailed combatant models, and plenty of lighting effects. Definitely a step above Crisis Core, which already had some thinking that the PSP really was a portable PS2. If you, like me, were expecting a quick cash-in with Dissidia to take advantage of the popularity of the Final Fantasy characters and all that work Square Enix clearly put into developing its Crisis Core engine, you, like me, were wrong. Dissidia has the potential to be a rare breath of fresh air in the fighting genre, Final Fantasy characters or not. I've only played it for 20 minutes, but I can't wait to sample the full Final Fantasy fighting experience. _____________________________________________________________ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketTantrik Posted December 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2007 More screenies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnackChap Posted December 24, 2007 Report Share Posted December 24, 2007 squall :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarbonCore Posted December 24, 2007 Report Share Posted December 24, 2007 Kuja, Tidus Sephiroth . This is like SSBB of Final Fantasy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketTantrik Posted December 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2007 Even my PSP has developed rumble in anticipation for this game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnackChap Posted December 24, 2007 Report Share Posted December 24, 2007 Squall ftw! This game reminds me of ERGHEIZ any PSOne gamers remember that game? Glad to know other ppl like squall, he's much better than the emokid sephiroth wannabe cloud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketTantrik Posted December 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2007 Squall ftw! This game reminds me of ERGHEIZ any PSOne gamers remember that game? Glad to know other ppl like squall, he's much better than the emokid sephiroth wannabe cloud. Cloud is a sissy. I like the protagonist from Crisis Core a lot more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XephY Posted December 25, 2007 Report Share Posted December 25, 2007 Squall ftw! This game reminds me of ERGHEIZ any PSOne gamers remember that game? Glad to know other ppl like squall, he's much better than the emokid sephiroth wannabe cloud. Cloud is a sissy. I like the protagonist from Crisis Core a lot more. His name is Zack. My nick actually comes from Sephiroth, Sephi didn't sound so cool , so made it rhyme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketTantrik Posted January 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2008 new direct feed screens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketTantrik Posted November 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 AWESOME Good v/s Evil poster for Dissidia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shockwave Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 ^^ SWEET. I wish they had included Seifer as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnackChap Posted December 10, 2008 Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 famitsu review Dissidia Final Fantasy (PSP) - 10/9/9/8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeezNah Posted December 10, 2008 Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 It even has video replay editing! *explodes* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeezNah Posted December 11, 2008 Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 Japanese TV commercial !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeezNah Posted January 5, 2009 Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 I can safely say that this game is already a contender for best PSP game of 2009, easily. I'm upto Chapter 4 of Shade Impulse, and things just keep getting better and better. Leveling up and ability customization feels right, and there's much incentive in wanting to try and get everything. Moogle Mail is a clever feature borrowed from The World Ends with You, where the game rewards you every day with new items or PP. The really scary part? And I haven't even played with anyone yet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeezNah Posted January 5, 2009 Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 Online store (Play-Asia from a good friend, to be exact). Ain't no retailer in India that sells this sh*t. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noctis Posted January 7, 2009 Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 Its available on PA and its not necessary to understand Japaneese to play this game. Must get this as soon as possible! And finally another game with Squall ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeezNah Posted January 7, 2009 Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 Its available on PA its not necessary to understand Japaneese to play this game. The real problem is trying to decipher what items do what, what status boosts you get when entering EX mode, how summons are triggered when equipped, and so on and so forth. If you're going to take the dive, I recommend hitting up GameFAQs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noctis Posted January 7, 2009 Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 The real problem is trying to decipher what items do what, what status boosts you get when entering EX mode, how summons are triggered when equipped, and so on and so forth. If you're going to take the dive, I recommend hitting up GameFAQs. That is the plan. A translation guide should hopefully be enough for that. Or does anyone know the English version release date? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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