Last year, Square Enix stated that the Western sales of Dissidia: Final Fantasy would make or break the chances of a sequel. It looks like the game sold well enough for them, as Square Enix has just announced a sequel.
The leak comes from the latest issue of Weekly Shonen Jump, which reveals the game's title, Dissidia Duodecim: Final Fantasy. Lighting from Final Fantasy XIII and Kain Highwind from Final Fantasy IV will be included in the sequel. The scan doesn't confirm anything else, but it's likely the game will have the characters from the first game playable again.
Dissidia Duodecim: Final Fantasy is set for a 2011 release in Japan. Square Enix has yet to announce a North American or European release.
Information has finally surfaced for a game long gone underground! Tetsuya Nomura has revealed some delicious tidbits in this week's issue of Famitsu, highlighting the grand scope of Final Fantasy Versus XIII and just how ridiculously huge it really is.
"If you try to go all the way to the end, it's truly far," said Nomura.
The first scan shows off a battle between Noctis, Versus' hero, and a military-grade Behemoth in the middle of a sprawling city that's modelled after Shinjuku. Another scene includes a mass wilderness and a gasoline stand. All of this was captured in realtime on the PlayStation 3. Oh, and Nomura's looking to improve the visuals even further than what's already been seen.
Continuing the marketing push surrounding Final Fantasy XIII's Japanese release, which is only 1 week away, Square Enix has released another batch of screens. The half dozen screens feature the main cast of Lightning, Snow, Hope, Oerba Dia Vanille, Oerba Yun Fang, and Sahz, in a number of different scenes. There's lots of tension in this bunch, check out the screens below.
Check out the rest of the screens in our full story.
Final Fantasy XIII's Cid and Oerba Dia Vanille are featured in Square Enix's latest onslaught of screens. All the shots are of in-game graphics, with Cid in a few shots with Lightning, Snow, and Oerba Yun Fang.
Vanille pairs up with her summon as well, Hecatoncheir, in a number of battle shots. She even pulls out finger guns like Liquid Ocelot in Metal Gear Solid 4, nice. Check out the screens below, with the complete batch of 16 in our full story.
Square Enix earlier released Final Fantasy XIII's European box art, and they have followed this up with North America's FFXIII PS3 and Xbox 360 box art.
The box art simply features Lightning and the Final Fantasy XIII logo. The image of Lighting is has been seen frequently in Final Fantasy XIII promotions before, include a desktop wallpaper on the official website for the game.
Box art for Final Fantasy titles in North America usually feature representations of characters, or a single character, so FFXIII has indeed followed suit in this case. However, the same box art will be used in Europe, where Final Fantasy games typically feature just the game's logo.
Cid has been a recurring character in the Final Fantasy series for a long time, and Final Fantasy XIII will be continuing that tradition. Shonen Jump, a Japanese magazine, has revealed new character Cid Raines, who looks to be a non-playable character.
A scan of the Final Fantasy XIII spread in Shonen Jump magazine features the new Cid. He is said to be a Brigadier in a military group not associated with the other military group in Final Fantasy XIII, called PSICOM.
One image in the scan looks like Cid is actually wielding a weapon much like Lightning's transforming gun/sword. Oerba Dia Vanille is also featured with her summon, and two other characters currently without official names.
Famitsu has yet again released more digital versions of images they previously revealed in the pages of their own weekly magazine. The dozen screen shots include monsters facing off with one another, multiple landscape shots, Cie Corpes, and Lightning and crew in and out of battle.
The enormous dinosaur-like monster we previous couldn't confirm was a fightable-monster is also shown in battle with Lightning, Snow, and Oerba Yun Fang.
The latest Shonen Jump features a spread about Final Fantasy XIII, complete with new visuals of monsters and environments. With the release date set for December 17th, it's almost surprising it's just one spread, but then again Shonen Jump isn't the only magazine in Japan.
On the right-hand side of the spread is an enormous dinosaur-like monster that literally towers over Lightning and company. The dino is likely the largest creature in Final Fantasy to-date, if not one of the largest. Nevertheless it's unclear if you can actually fight the monster, or run up to it in-game. There is also a large Cactuar, and what appears to be a behemoth, much like the supposed behemoth on the highway in the original Final Fantasy XIII trailers.
The left-hand side of the spread features a few new environment shots, as well as Lightning's party. The environments are mostly wide shots, showing off some deep valleys and high bridges and towers. In the center Lightning appears to be dashing towards a plant, but it's also unclear if the plant is actually some sort of enemy.
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The leak comes from the latest issue of Weekly Shonen Jump, which reveals the game's title, Dissidia Duodecim: Final Fantasy. Lighting from Final Fantasy XIII and Kain Highwind from Final Fantasy IV will be included in the sequel. The scan doesn't confirm anything else, but it's likely the game will have the characters from the first game playable again.
