IGN has had their hands at Final Fantasy: Dissidia at Tokyo's Jump Festa. Amongst their 20 minutes of hands-on gaming, they were able to experience fights and view characters.
Fighting has been described as neither 2D or 3D fighting, but both:
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"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."
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In addition, there are also semi-destructible environments, blown apart by ultimate attacks. And most importantly, with the use of the Triangle Button, characters can perform many different gravity-defying acrobatic abilities that rival those displayed in the Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children movie.
IGN has seen CGI footage, separate to the playable demo, of Final Fantasy X's Blitzball superstar, Tidus, and Final Fantasy VII's infamous villain, Sephiroth, exchanging blows while running up cliff faces.
Artwork displayed in the booth also suggests a particular Judge from the Ivalice series could appear, possibly from Final Fantasy XII?
You can read the full report of the experience here:
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