Square-Enix Dissidia 012: Duodecim Final Fantasy

what im hopeing for is more female Cosmos fighters. im glad Tifas and Lightning are in it but i want to see Yuna reaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyy bad. or Fran..that would be kick ass. but I really want is character from the older final fantasy to show up. i feel like younger FF lovers may not have been introduced to those amazing characters and they need a little push.

 

Vaan's Play style

Switching among 8 types of weapons.
Has a lot of Brave attacks. Can fight at close range or far range depending on how you customize.
Each Brave attack utilizes one weapon.
Confirmed Weapons: sword, greatsword, spear, gun, katana, bowgun/crossbow, fist.

Switch ability
The special part of Vaan.
Unlike other multi weapon user, Vaan will not put away his weapon after attack.
If you use a particular weapon's Brave attack while holding another weapon, Switch ability is executed.
Switch ability is provided for each weapon. It has properties such as: adding "guard" to slow attacks, charge-able, absorb, move while attacking etc.
Using the "correct" weapon of the attack will not trigger Switch ability.
Therefore, the order of performing Brave attacks becomes important.
There is no Switch ability for fist(bare hand).

Source: http://www.dissidiaforums.com/showpost.php?p=250783&postcount=4504

 

It's good to see that Nomura is using some of Amano's designs, but to be honest, I like Nomura's better. Still cool, nonetheless.

 

Personally I prefer Amano's art, to me it has a mystical-fantasy feel to it rather than Nomura, but it's great to see them teaming up with this project. Hmm I didn't know Terra's name was Tina for the Jap version?? :/ Also great to hear about Vaan new equipment...still wating on that release date. ^^'.

 

My my Terra, you just like showing your legs lol but Kekfa's even more clowny than before,

Vaan's Switch is kinda like Haseo's weaponry.

Haseo's First - Daggers
Haseo's Second - Broadsword
Haseo's Third - Scythe
Haseo's Fourth - Guns

Older Characters would breathe new life into their series but we've already got Warrior of Light, Garland, Firion and Mateus

It would be interesting if with your Dissidia Save File, you can transfer the items and levels with their alt artwork, you would also get the Player Icons.

 

THEY HAVE TO DO THAT. Yet another reason to get Dissidia 012 imported. =]

@kingdom_hearts_loverXX - Yeah, I think Woolsey changed it. I actually prefer Tina to Terra to be honest.

 

Woolsey changed it because Tina is a very common western name since test players of the game given negative feedback as well to avoid the use of Western names, hence Terra was her overseas name, Terra is also Latin for Earth and contrary to the belief of some, Terra in Greek means Monster, a reference to her Esper nature.

Faris and Terra were Amano's favourites to design on another interesting note and with over two dozen pieces of artwork of Terra, she's the only character in FF with the most artwork along with Nomura stating Terra's his favourite to play as because of her long range attacks and of course Tornado spammage.

 

Tornado spammage FTW XD
Her artwork is amazing, though why the hell does she have green hair in game and brown hair in artwork? I haven't actually played FFVI, though I'm reading a walkthrough for it.
And maybe they could actually use the artwork forms to interweave with the storyline, like the drive forms from KHII.

 

That's her alternate look. Terra's hair is just different along with the colors of her clothes.

 

In FFVI, Terra had green hair while Amano's artwork had her have blondeish hair, hence when Amano created the designs for Dissidia, Terra's in Amano artwork while her FFVI sprite in the game she hailed from became an Alternate Costume, it also gives the FF fans to see what other ideas Square originally had for the FF franchise before settling on the normal looks.

Plus the Alt artwork just changes the character's looks and gives the option of you wanting to play the way you remember your characters from the games.

The drive forms you mentioned couldn't possibly happen, the EX Modes just have the characters wielding their strongest weapon or form and executing their best moves or some that are similar to it, besides, it's Dissidia, the characters retain their Amano costumes in cutscenes since it's meant for the game, you don't want like KH1 Cloud's bat wing going through someone.

 

Wow! The more I read about Duodecim, the more exited I get for it! I made sure my PSP's first use was with Dissidia, and this game looks like it will be 12x the game Dissdia was, great as the original is. Also, we have a release date from Gamestop's website. 3/11/11.

 

I was at Gamestop two days ago, it's still listed as 4/1/11. And again I would advise against listening to any release dates in the US that are before Q2, maybe Q3 of 2011. A Japanese release date hasn't even been announced yet, and we usually get the game five or six months afterwards.

 

Actually there are signs that the NA/EU version will be released near the Japanese release date

 

Such as...?
I've yet to see any Duodecim ads or articles in US gaming magazines.

 

It isn't really big facts but some voice actors are already confirmed (Bobby Ender as Vaan, Rachael Leigh Cook as Tifa, Kuja's voice actor JD Cullum saying something about a new dissidia) and the offical website being already opened and updated

 

Doesn't mean it's coming out at a close date, it just means that people have been hired and they've begun building the hype. Unless the specifically state a release date or something like "It's meant to come out..." then there's nothing to say that it'll be released on a date set up by a retailer in another country from the creators. It should be pretty obvious by now, considering how many games had "set dates" from places like Play and Gamestop yet they turned out to be BS.

 

So TGS happened. Enjoy the read. Info about characters being rebalanced, etc. Use CTRL+F to find specific characters; no Tifa or Vaan.

 

Man! I am SO looking forward to this game! Dissidia and BBS were the two main reason why I even got a PSP, so hearing about this game has me psyched!

Just one question though; Kain Highwind, Locke Cole, Seifer Almasy, Yuna, Seymour Guado, Prishe, Vaan, Balthier and Lightning were all considered to be in dissidia 1 but were left out for different reasons, for example Seifer's fighting style was similar to Squall's, Nomura didn't want to reveal Lightning's fighting style, etc.

But now Vaan, Lightning and Kain have all been revealed to be in duodecim, so what do you guys think? Do you think the others mentioned above will be added, or rather WHICH ones will be added? =P Personally I'm good if Yuna's in... -blush-

 

Hmm.

If any perspective is needed on the 'when is it coming out' thing, the English cast actually finished recording the entire script before the game was announced in Japan, so you know. It might end up that the release dates for Japan and US/UK might be much closer than normal.

Also-

I lol'd. It confirms my immaturity and marks me as forever childish and dirty-minded, but by Cosmos it was so worth it.

 

Well third character wise...

FFV - Galuf (Has a vendetta against Exdeath and well basically dies by his hand)
FFVI - Celes (Another Magitek solider)
FFVII - Tifa's already filled that role!
FFVIII - Seifer sounds interesting since he is a gunblade specialist as well but Rinoa is a sorcress so she has a common enemy in Ultimecia.
FFIX - Garnet/Dagger (Kuja used Queen Brahne for his own purposes so a common enemy)
FFX - Yuna and Seymour are good choices cause well, Yu Yevon has no real form.
FFXI - Online so idk about this
FFXII - Basch I'd suspect.
FFXIII - Snow, all I'll say is Snow