Dissidia plot and battle details revealed

[Kionae]

According to IGN, this week's issue of Famitsu magazine has a feature on Dissidia Final Fantasy, revealing details of the games battle system... as well as some plot details.

And yes, the game, projected to be a fighter, does apparently have a plot. It seems that in the eternal war between Cosmos (go of balance and hormony) and Chaos (god of disorder), Chaos has gained the upper-hand. Hope rests with the 10 warriors selected by Cosmos. It is assumed that these 10 are matched by warriors chosen by Chaos.

Tetsuya Nomura told Famitsu that the development team is working on getting as many characters as possible into the game, and also that the player will be able to see different things by clearing the game's story mode with each character.

The battle system of the game involves the use of special skills unique to each charater (displayed in a command list in the lower left corner). Available skills will change depending on distance from the player's opponent. The game will also incorporate jumping an evasion tactics, but the controls are supposedly simple enough for novince players. Characters gain experience points from batting, and can be customized with equipment and armor.

Parts of the environment can be detsroyed durring battle, and doing s builds up the character's Brave meter. This in turn gives the player access to new attacks. Attacking opponents also causes the Special Move gauge to build up (likely leading to the character's limit skill).

Known skills currently include FF1's warrior of light being able to transform using the Class Change command as well as an Excaliber and Long Range command. Zidane has a Trance command.

Square Enix has not announced a release date for Dissidia, which is being developed for PSP, but IGN is expecting a release some time this year, due to the game being intended as a 20th anniversary project.

Source: IGN

[KurosawaSae]

Does Dissidia have a english version? or It only will realease on Japan?

[Kionae]

Right now, it's planned for a simlutaneous release in Japan and North America. Of course, that's what they said with Advent Children, too, and that didn't exactly work out...

But yeah, there will be an english version.

[Derek]

You can destroy the environment around you? Sounds awesome.

Yay for everyone that has a PSP...

[Garland]

so.... wil we be able to play as some of the frces of disorder characters? i hear alot of talk about the light side, and their abilities, but i wonder if you can play Garland or Kuja aswell?

[DyvineChaos]

Wow... This sounds like a pretty nice game.
But I will have to learn more about it before I decide to buy it when it comes out.
It kinda sounds like the extra feature in Final Fantasy Tactics.( except for the fact that this is going to be the whole game.

[RedCloud]

I hope they put in lots of the characters from every Final Fantasy like Vincent, Squall, Zell, Seifer, Steiner, Tidus, Auron. That would be a great game with some of these characters in it as well.

[Luna Lovegood]

i'd love to see Tidus in this game, if only for the chance to batter the **** out of him
Also, if they don't get a strong line up of past FF characters in this game, I don't think it's going to be very successful.

[Commandie070792]

I wana have Kefka as a playable character. He'd be quite a comic relief on the good side for once.

[Garland]

Well i would suspect unfortunately, that the game cant have that many characters ( especially for just a couple of ff games. they would have the main main pc of each game from 1 to 10, aswell as the main villain from 1 -10 compete

[Kionae]

Originally Posted by Garland

Well i would suspect unfortunately, that the game cant have that many characters ( especially for just a couple of ff games. they would have the main main pc of each game from 1 to 10, aswell as the main villain from 1 -10 compete

Only time will tell... Nomura specifically stated they were trying to put as many characters as possible in. Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean they'll all be playable. At the very least, I would be shocked if they didn't have the main characters and main villains from 1-10 and 12 playable.

[Garland]

I hope to god that the villains will be playable! Theyre the only ones i want to play <

[KurosawaSae]

I know, It sounds cool XD I can't wait for the game~

[Zezlar]

This is going to be a good game I think, I hope they can get some of the main Characters from the other Final Fantasy games in there. Would be nice to see skills such as lionheart, omnislash and others