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This Week On Final Fantasy: Dissidia Duodecim Updates Gets More Interesting By The Minute

By: Derek
26-01-2011
Final Fantasy Games

Well, it has been a month since I abandoned ship (again), but I am finally back with more Final Fantasy updates.

I plan to revamp my approach. The site has festered a bit regarding its choice of topic, and Final Fantasy Girls will now focus more on Final Fantasy from this point forward. I will still feature female cosplayers donning their favorite Final Fantasy attire. This month is so fantastically intriguing that it is so hard to overlook the news surrounding the Final Fantasy title in general.

First up, Dissidia 012 Duodecim.

Final Fantasy Union has gone on a little crusade to inform us about the development of the prequel to the original Dissidia game, and they are quite good at it. The PSP exclusive is going all out with all the game’s recent evolution in terms of gameplay and graphics. Dissidia 012 Duodecim opened the year with a series of fan-cheering additions of Yuna to Cosmos’  lineup of warriors. Of course, she’ll be joined by Lightning Farron, Kain Highwing, Laguna Loire, and Vaan.

What is more startling is that, the extended trailer shown on Final Fantasy Union indicates that some of the previous Cosmos warriors will not join the fight against discord and destruction. It is hinted that Tidus, Cloud, and Terra have joined Chaos’ soldiers of darkness. The trio could not be seen in Cosmos’ corner.

A trailer is just a trailer. Those split second sequences make it hard for us to determine if whether Tidus, Cloud, and Terra have gone rogue and defected from the Goddess of Harmony. More importantly, it is hard to imagine if Tidus is on the side of evil given his jumpy disposition.

The six-minute trailer also features Bartz and an anthropomorphic figure heading straight towards the cheery adventurer.

The swirling figure might be the weapon fanatic, Gilgamesh.

Word of caution: Never travel around the Void alone!

In addition, Aerith Gainsborough can be seen during a short skirmish involving Cloud and Sephiroth.

A trailer is just a trailer. Those split second sequences make it hard for us to determine if whether Tidus, Cloud, and Terra have gone rogue and defected from the Goddess of Harmony. More importantly, it is hard to imagine if Tidus is on the side of evil given his jumpy disposition.

Expect more on these in the next coming weeks.

Anyways, Dissidia 012 Duodecim is picking up steam; the fighting mechanics look fluid and everything about it, especially how a quick North American release would soon follow after the initial Japan release, is impressive.


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The Dissidia Duodecim Project: Laguna Loire And The World Map Scenario

By: Derek
26-12-2010
Final Fantasy Games

Dissidia Duodecim is picking up steam with its latest improvement in the world map structure. Famitsu revealed that the 3D chessboard map had been scraped and a new world map has been added in which, characters can roam in a 3D-rendered environment encapsulating impressive representations of carnage and disarray.

Famitsu shows that characters travel in a party of three and useful conversations can be carried out to your party members in order to gain hints or clues necessary for advancing to stages in between the game’s Story Mode – enemies encountered within the map are closely relevant to the crystallized mannequins that pop up in the chessboard map, in Dissidia Duodecim, they’re called Imitations and Square Enix has yet to release in-game sprites of these minuscule troublemakers.

Also this week, Final Fantasy VIII’s Laguna Loire gets the spotlight as SE proudly enumerated how Laguna’s combat setup will prove to be more “tactical” than those in the current line-up of Dissidia Duodecim fighters. Battle director Takeo Kujiraoka refers to Laguna as Tactical Gunner and how sneak attacks would help Laguna against more powerful foes like Garland and Jecht.

In this conjecture, Laguna Loire will mostly be spending his time dodging attacks than spraying opponents with a swathe of bullets from the front. According to Kujiraoka, Laguna will get to use a variety of guns and, the necessary timing and to reach each weapon’s efficiency boils down on how good the player is in identifying situation wherein an opponent is vulnerable to a certain gun attack.

For example, Laguna’s machine gun is effective against back attacks because of the rapid and continuous fire, Laguna will have access to the shotgun, sniper rifle, automatic rifle, rocket launcher and grenades. The shotgun fires a burst of bullets that damages the opponent’s Bravery severely and the sniper rifle is effective against opponents who like to get aerial. Explosives like the grenade epitomizes how the player must pull out the necessary “tactical trick” in order to shred Bravery points in an instant.

As for Laguna’s EX Burst Command, the move is called “Ultimate Ragnarok Cannon,” a clear allusion to Final Fantasy VIII’s airship known as the Ragnarok and the move is based on his Limit Break, Desperado.

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Fantasy Girl Of The Week: Remorsefulpromises As Aqua Of Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep

By: Derek
14-12-2010
Final Fantasy Girls

I’m not a huge fan of Kingdom Hearts mainly because I grew up knowing that there is this game called Final Fantasy. I’ll be honest with you, Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep is the first KH game that I finished, I just never liked the collaboration between Disney and Square Enix and the fact that some of our favorite FF heroes would be cordially spliced in Kingdom Hearts just so we could get lectured on how similar the two titles are.

After seeing Remorsefulpromises and her Deviation, I said to myself, “Crap, how am I going to do this?”

For those who just visited the site for the very first time, Remorsefulpromises has been repetitively featured on Final Fantasy girls for her contributions as cosplaying Final Fantasy’s most popular heroines and fan service insignias; from Tifa Lockhart to the conservative Crisis Core Aeris Gainsborough, she has become my top feature for everything that resembles the sexy side of Square Enix’s most prized copyright possession.

This time, however, she’s not dressed as anything that came direct  from Yoshitaka Amano’s brilliant hands. Honestly, I just can’t say no from someone whom I believe visits the site everyday for any upcoming Final Fantasy updates and see herself as the main feature proudly posing her style in standstill motion. For now, here she is again as Aqua of Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep.

Those who had played Birth By Sleep, we could see a tad of difference from the color hue Remorseful promises used in this picture. Aqua sports darker blue hair and Remorsefulpromises humbly stated the reason for this mistake personally on her Deviant Art account, and she wrote:

“The reason i have clips in the wig is because its very long and i couldn’t bear to cut it =[“

Expect more on this in the coming future.

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