Dissidia: New Characters and Info

At this year Jump Festa, a new Final Fantasy: Dissidia trailer was shown confirming the presence of three new characters:




• Squall
Though it was mentioned some weeks ago, Squall, from Final Fantasy 8 will be available.
• Edea
The sorceress from Final Fantasy 8
• Tidus
And the famous Zanarkand Abes Star Player, from Final Fantasy 10


Those who get to be at the Jump Festa, had the chance to take some "punches" on the multiplayer demo, got rewarded with this pouch:

And also, someone decided to give us a small, but yet important, report about the game controls which stands:
- Directional buttons: camera control
- Analog stick: character movement
- L: lock-on
- R: guard
- R + X: dodge
- X: jump
- O: attack (Brave Point reduction)
- []: attack (Health Point reduction - uses BP)
- Triangle: perform "map markers" (such as running on walls)

And to end this topic for today, I give you a IGN report where they give us their first impression about the game, which as it always happened, the game came to be even cooler than it would seem. Also, there's more details and impressions, remember to check them out.

And finally this would be probably my last post until 26th December so I'd like to wish every visitor a great Merry Christmas!! We would like you to enjoy the day, and most of all, I would like to thank you for all of your support, because it counted a lot for me to keep Square Planet alive!

MERRY CHRISTMAS
and an
HAPPY NEW YEAR

Crisis Core North American Release Date

After its great success in Japan by becoming the best-selling game across all regions from April through September with 710,000 copies sold, Square Enix announced the North American release date, which is set for 25th March 2008.

As for an European release date, there's still no clue.

Advent Children Complete Trailer

No, it's not an Advent Children sequel... It's the same Advent Children re-mastered.
Included in the CLOUD pack, this trailer shows the new version of the movie on Blu-Ray Discs, with excellent quality, containing more details, new scenes and some old scenes overworked.

Here's the trailer for you:

Final Fantasy XIII & Versus XIII Trailers

We are now proud to show you the brand new trailers of Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fanatsy Versus XIII, which were packed with a book called CLOUD in Japan. So we will just skip non-relevant talking rubbish and just head straight to the business.

Final Fantasy XIII

Final Fantasy Versus XIII

Also, for the ones interested we have links to better quality trailers:

- FFXIII

- FF Versus XIII

We're sorry that they are sendspace links, we are conscious how difficult it is to download something from there, but that's all we got now, maybe later we will upload on other site.

Last but not least, don't forget that Jump Festa is coming, so stay tuned if you want to know all the latest news of the Square Enix world.

Source: FFInsider

The World Ends With You

Also known as "It's a Wonderfull World" in Japan.
It's an action-RPG for the handheld video game console, Nintendo DS. Developed by the Kingdom Hearts team, Square Enix and Jupiter. Designed by Tetsuya Nomura and Gen Kobayashi.
The North American title would be the as the Japanese, if it weren't due to copyright issues, but, in the meanwhile, it has been confirmed that the European version would be titled as "The World Ends With You" and the release date is set for Spring 2008.

I'll let here the Japanese cover, as we haven't yet displayed some info about it.

For some more information, click here to discuss the game on the forum.

Source: SquareInsider

Those who buy X360 are true players

The actual director of Square Enix, Yochi Wanda, comments about the current state of this new console generation.
"Xbox 360 is a console for hardcore gamers, those who buy it are the real gamers", said Wanda.

He mentioned that those who buy Wii, buy it only as a toy, and not as console. It was meant to be made for fun.
And also, as it wouldn't be fair to put it aside. Wanda states that Sony isn't sure about what they want to do with PS3. "Was it made as a console or as an High Technological System?"

The director also took some of the time to state his opinion about the new games development. He says that it's necessary to work on new titles, but also to show and to remember the importance of remakes of previous titles.
"60% of the games belong to series and 40% the new headings. There's a misunderstand idea established that it indicates that only we trust series as Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest ", affirms the direction.

Source: XBoxTeamPortugal

Lord of Vermillion trailer

Just a few weeks ago we showed the confirmation about Lord Of Vermillion.
Today we've got the official and first trailer showing the gameplay, which is based on a set of cards that call forth monsters that attack other monsters (familiar?).
Sound composed by Nobuo Uematsu, and artwork designed by lots of Square Enix artists, I give you (and thank to Tony from FFInsight) the trailer.