Vaan’s inclusion in Dissidia Duodecim sparked a lot of debates whether the “Final Fantasy XII protagonist” should have been reconsidered or worse, scraped out of the development arena which developers of the sequel stalwartly ignored. Vaan, if you played Final Fantasy XII from start to finish, never really stood out among his peers of memorable Final Fantasy heroes and heroines; standing around, at least during the early phase of the quest, is Vaan’s unlikely trademark making him one of the series’ most ridiculed male lead characters of all time.

Nonetheless, Vaan will be making his debut next year as a playable character in Dissidia Duodecim and finally, Square Enix has released few details surrounding his role and abilities. Just like Bartz, Vaan can equip any type of weapon, even the long-range armaments primordially known as Crossbows. My predictions came true as expectations for Vaan is currently being polished by the sequel team, who I think are the same guys behind Dissidia.

Battle Planner Takeo Kujiraoka succinctly explained that Vaan is going to be a Switch Attacker, switching from one weapon to another associated with the Bravery attack executed by the player. In addition, Vaan’s EX Burst is similar with that of Judge Magister Gabranth, players shuffle commands with the R button and X will be used to select a particular devastating Mist Knack command.

Kujiraoka proudly boasts that Vaan’s flair for execution Mist Knack commands is among the game’s most graphically-impressive showing as of development time.

Overall, Vaan may be perhaps on the verge of a breakthrough, he’s finally getting the respect that he deserves and the chance to finally show Balthier who the real go-to-guy of Final Fantasy XII is. Take that, original Strahl owner!

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