Square Planet is back on action!

Sorry for being so late everyone, and making you wait so long for Square Planet to re-open, but enough talk and check the forums!
Our community will be back on action and news a lots of information are going to be posted right away!

This time, our team will be composed, besides administration, a group of reviewers, ghraphic arts and community directors.
We no longer have Cartographers but our team will give you everything you need to know about Square Enix.

As for Community Director: Solfira
Graphic Arts: EdotenseiHime
Reviews Director: GodAthier

Our team is also imcomplete and if you'd like to join us check the link here and find out how.

So that's all folks, SP is back on action, and we'll provide you new rockin info on the next Square Enix titles, so stay tuned!

Square Planet will be back!

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You read it right!
We at Square Planet won't give up and we'll bring the community back to you.
We're working on the forum as it upgraded to a new software and we're also looking for a big and better team to help you anytime you need.
Lots of new features will be available, and you can see what Square Planet has to offer on 1st of November this year.

Thanks to all the gil you donated we could buy a Phoenix Down.
Until!

Last Remnant Release Date Announced

The Last Remnant is set to be released on November 20th 2008 for the XBox 360 console.
Release date for Paystation 3 is still unkown as Square is still having trouble with the Unreal Engine.

Also, the game will be release on PC has "Games for Windows", with no date set at this moment.

Source: SquareInsider

Emergency

Square Planet has been very inactive lately. And I can't handle the blog by myself. The team is quite inactive and isn't posting any news about Square Enix.
So I'm asking if there's any fan out there, visiting this blog, that would like to help me in posting news and contributing to the forums.

If you're interested then please register at the forums and send me a PM. I'll reply as soon as possible with my email, so we can chat in IM at MSN Messenger (as this is the only one I have).

My best regards,
Xtreme Flash

S-E exploded all the fans at E3

When we all thought Final Fantasy couldn't achieve its place at Microsoft's XBox 360 console, here's when Square Enix announced that the next title on the Final Fantasy series, Final Fantasy XII, will be officialy released for all the XBox players.


Yes, I couldn't believe it myself. It was just so sudden that I could just die at that moment. If you want to take a look at it if you missed it, here you go:

Video credits to FinalFantasyXIII.net

New Dissidia Trailer

New trailer for the upcoming brawl game by the name Final Fantasy Dissidia.
We can see all the (so far) revelead characters battling side by side in intenses and furious battles:

Original Video from Square JAPAN Members

Firefox 3.0 Download Day

Help Mozilla Firefox break the number record of the most downloaded software in 24 hours

Something different from the usual today. Firefox has been a great and excellent broswer softare which grants you an easy, secure and fast navigation on the web.

Download now Firefox and feel the difference by yourself!

~ Download Firefox 3.0 ~

Free drinks!

No many news have emerged from Square Enix and we at Square Planet are quite busy with personal affairs but I couldn't avoid this and add to post it.
Recently, the IT University of Copenhagen held an event for the famous RPG franchise and the event couldn't be better with some cosplayers and also, Final Fantasy-themed drinks!

I'll also leave here the link to the recipes, so you can have an enjoyable Final Fantasy party pf your own with some drinks alongside, but please, don't ever forget to drink responsibly!

Source: FFInsider

Infinte Release Date!

Microsoft's XBox 360 console gets it's prize by our favorite company, Square Enix when they officially announced, after all this time, the release date for the next RPG Infinite Undiscovery, exclusively for XBox 360:

2nd September!

And yet, we still need to teach them some geography as "Worldwide" should also include Europe!

Anyway, here's the trailer for you:

Source: XBoxTeamPortugal

A2 Official PAL Release Date

Square Enix has officialy announced the release date for the proclaimed most anticipated NDS tactical game Final Fantasy Tactics A2 Grimoire of the Rift which will make it to European shelves on 27th June, one week after Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core hitting European territory and three days after A2 being released on North America.

So for those that been expecting this game you better have some money left 'cuz it's almost here!

Source: FFInsight

Crisis Core European Release Date

Square Enix Europe confirmed through a press-release to the media, the official release date of Crisis Core on European shelves, set for 20th June.
As far as we know, there hasn't been any change from the North American version other than four additional languages.

It also seems that Square Enix is creating several special limited bundle packs to be released on every country for instance: with the United Kingdom having been confirmed to be shipping a version of the game with a hard-backed artbook, and France having a small-run bundle of the game and an Ice Silver PSP Slim & Lite (minus the 10th Anniversary of Final Fantasy VII designs present on the Japanese version).

Source: FFInsight

Square Enix emails-pie-chat statistics

4 days ago, a Microsoft Excel-generated pie chart was realeased on the official North American Square Enix Members website.

It might be pointless but we're just concerned on the number of the "FFVII Remake requests" being much bigger than the confirmed "FFXIII".
This is causing a big amount of fans to want a remake so bad that they don't care anymore about the upcoming titles.

Source: FFInsight

Some Sigma Harmonics Info

Developed by Square Enix for the Nintendo's Portable (NDS).
As far as we know, Sigma Harmonics it's a RPG divided by chapters with a mystery to solve on each of them and most of them are related to murders.

The official website is open to public and for now you can check some of the characters artwork, the voice cast staff some products and also you can listen to the great composition of Masashi Hamauzu.

Official Website

Source: FFInsight

FFXI 2008 Edition announced for PAL

Square Enix has announced some time ago a Final Fantasy XI compilation with the latest expansion Wings of the Goddess.
It will be available for PC and Microsoft XBox 360.
Apart from the primary game, it will also contain Rise of the Zilart, Chains of Promathia, Treasures of Aht Urghan and Wings of the Goddess.

"Final Fantasy 11 - 2008 Edition allows interested players to join the adventure with the bonus of all the expansion pack content," says John Yamamoto, president and chief executive officer of Square-Enix.

Final Fantasy 11 - 2008 Edition will be releasing across PAL territories on May 23, 2008

Source: FFInsider

Enix = Party = Free Booze

Do you like to play but also enjoy a great wine? Square Enix started a campagin to sell more copies for one of their new NDS titles, Wine No Hajimekata, which as far as we know, it's a game where you taste wine.
You've got until 31st May to be one of 20 winners which will win a bottle of the chilean wine Casillero del Diablo.

Note: You must be over 20 years old to win the bottle due to the legal ade drinking in Japan.

Source: SquareInsider

Europe is gonna End...

..or already has since The World Ends With You was released yesterday on Europe!
Square Enix newest Nintendo DS title has set foot on European territory (and I was starting to think we were being ignored like always) and received a major overall rate with good critics:

Edge: 8/10
EGM: A-/A-/B
Famitsu: 35/40
Game Informer: 8.25/10
GamePro: 9/10
IGN: 9/10
Nintendo Power: 9.0/10

Just you wait America, you'll End as well next Tuesday, 22nd April.

Square Planet looking for GFX Managers

We keep wanting someone to make part of the Staff members, but as not everyone is registered on the forums I'll ask here.
We're looking for someone with GFX experience. Someone to take over the graphics of the forum. He/She must have some knowledge about HTML as well. We also ask to know how to make a custom layout for the blog.


If you're interested please send us an email by clicking the "Contact Us" link on the navigation bar on the right with all the necessary Information

- Real Name
- Subject: Application
- Alias (Nickname)
- Age
- A link to one of your GFX projects/works/layouts

Your best regards,
Square Planet Staff

A new Wii game announced

Square Enix recently reveled that they are working on a new title based on the manga series Soul Eater, by Atsushi Okubo.
The game will be available for the Nintendo Wii system and at this moment we only know the game is titled Soul Eater: Monotone Princess and it will be an Action-RPG.

Source: Square Insider

Grimoire of the Rift

Square Enix just mentioned that Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift is going to be released this Summer on European consoles.
As for bonus, S-E also mentioned that European players will use even more the Touch Screen than in the Japanese version.


Source: GameOver

The World Ends With You with 3 new trailers

Released last year on Japan for Nintendo DS, we've got 3 new gameplay trailers:

Noise Erasing Gameplay
Elemental Attack Gameplay
Road Hazard Gameplay

The World Ends With You is set to be released later this month on Europe and on North America.

Source: SquareInsider

XIII Versus Theme released

"Somnus" is the name for Final Fantasy Versus XIII theme.
drammatica -The Very Best of Yoko Shimomura- has been released last week on Japan and I thought I'd share, thanks to Tony from FFInsight,




If you want the song I'd recommend you to buy/order the album, or you can wait until I upload it to our Jukebox and letting you listen to it anytime.

Source: FFInsight

Crisis Core released in North America

There you go, my North American friends. You can finally shut the hype status and play the most anticipated game for PSP.
Crisis Core is out and if you live near San Francisco, the official Crisis Core launch party held by Square Enix at the Sony Metreon Centre will be open between 6PM and 9PM. Be sure to take a visit and tell us how it went!

"The event will be open to the first 200 people, with the first 100 people scoring a limited edition T-shirt. The event will not only mark the launch of the game in the US, but also celebrate the history of FFVII. Attendees will also be able to get their own personalized ShinRa membership card. "


Source: SquareInsider

FFTA2 released in June

Late again, but better late than never...
Anyway, here's great news for you tacticians! Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2 Grimorie of the Rift will be released in North America on June 24, 2008.
As for European release date, no cookie.

Tactics A2 takes place in the world of Ivallice once again. It's not either a sequel or a prequel to the previous Tactics for the handled console Game Boy Advance. This time, it's for the Nintendo DS.

You can check the press release here and the official website of the game here.

Source: Square Insider

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Collector's Edition for Europe

Finnaly. My internet ain't gay anymore. And here's a great report for all my European friends that impatiently waitin' to put their hands on Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII. Or to insert the UMD on their handled consoles.

Now, for all the Final Fantasy collector's, we have the chance to pre-order (and it's only available this way) this title which has been treated as a Collectible Edition that contains a unique cover, and an exclusive artbook entitled The Art of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7.

Please note that this deal is currently only available to players across Europe, and to claim this offer you must pre-order the game at your local retailer!

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII will be releasing across North America on March 25th, 2008. Rumour has it that the game will ship on June 27th across Europe, but we can't confirm this as of yet. Keep posted for the revealed released date.

Source: FFInsider

Front Mission for the NDS

Another title for the handled console Nintendo DS has been set to be releasead on 29th May.
Front Mission 2089: Border of Madness

Square Enix opened the official website and you can check it for yourselves:

www.square-enix.co.jp/fm/fm2089/

Square reigns in Japan

Sure Square owns most of the Japanese players. When Dengeki readers were polled about the best games of 2007 and then asked to rate the best games ever we came to know for sure that Square Enix its the main videogame-creator company on Japan.
Here are the results:


What is the best game you played during 2007?
1. Monster Hunter Freedom 2 (Sony PSP)
2. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (Sony PSP)
3. Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo Wii)
4. Dragon Quest IV (Nintendo DS)
5. Super Robot Taisen Original Generations (Sony PlayStation 2)
6. Persona 3 (Sony PlayStation2)
7. Etrian Odyssey (Nintendo DS)
8. Ar Tonelico 2 (Sony PlayStation 2)
9. Fate/stay night [Realta Nua] (Sony PlayStation2)
10. Lost Odyssey (Xbox360)


What is the best game you ever played?
1. Final Fantasy VII (Sony PlayStation)
2. Final Fantasy X (Sony PlayStation 2)
3. Monster Hunter Freedom 2 (Sony PSP)
4. Xenogears (Sony PlayStation)
5. Tales Of The Abyss (Sony PlayStation 2)
6. Dragon Quest III (Super Famicom)
7. Dragon Quest VIII (Sony PlayStation 2)
8. Chrono Trigger (Super NES)
9. Suikoden II (Sony PlayStation)
10. Okami (Sony PlayStation 2)

So much time has passed, but every player can never forget the great and precious RPG that FFVII was.

Source: SquareInsider

More Dissidia characters revelead!

Oww... Sorry everyone for all this absence. School has been killing me, my Internet has been playing homosexual with me and other games are occupying some of my free time to post news about Square, but tests are over, so I'll start posting every news I've missed, and today I'll let you a poster with some new artworks about new characters on the "Smash Bros-ish" Enix game for PSP.

Lots of rumors on this one, but everyone dedicated some of their time to decipher the characters appearing in the background. Some villains are visible and also, some new appearances:

The Cloud of Darkness (FF3) Golbez (FF4) Exdeath (FF5) Kefka (FF6) Jecht (FF10)

This really getting better and better. Soon, we might even get to have Cloud and Tidus as playable characters as well. Just keep in touch with us and we'll keep posted to Square Enix leaks and new information about the game and release dates.

Source: FFInsider

New info on the Kingdom Hearts Compendium

Did you all miss me? Yes, I bet you did. I bring some cool info about the upcoming Kingdom Hearts games. First of all a video of Terra's animations:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZuSe8Ymv3Q

Dude, what's wrong with your Keyblade?! Jesus H. Christ! Nonethless I'm linking the different shapes it takes. Inovating in the battle system.

Next, from Kingdom Hearts Network Forums, I tell you this:

Yesterday we reported news regarding the new information for 358/2 Days. The information wasn't to big, but today more info was leaked and believe me that this is nothing you would want to miss out on! If you missed any news from yesterday, just simply scroll down to the yellow table which will recap everything for you.

• Roxas will be able to have different forms like Sora.
• The 14th Member is a female who has influenced the actions of Roxas.
• This character stays un-named. She is considerably mysterious.
• There may be an opening movie to the game.
• Cutscenes from 358/2 Days are being re-done to fit the DS right.
• The scene in KHII: FM+ featuring Roxas and Axel has now been done in full work detail.
• Various Disney characters will appear in the game.

From KH-Vids:

Hey everyone, it seemed all that came at the beginning of this year, was a High Quality scan of 358/2 days which wouldn't really count as something new, then it was a higher quality of something we saw last year.

However now we've got some really nice new information concerning about the three games! Some are things we already know, as others are pretty new and at the same time are interesting. It's about time we got something like this considering lately Square-Enix has been in the dark.


Coded

- The scene of Riku in Neverland is to show what Riku was thinking before he kidnapped Kairi.

- The scene showing Traverse Town where Sora meets Donald and Goofy will be focusing on what Pluto did during that time.
- Sora can glide in Coded.
- The heartless have invaded the data, however they are not bugs.
- High-Speed Mode makes Sora run really fast, as Crash Mode turns the game into a sidescroller action!
- Debugs have a certain timelimit, if you fail to eliminate the bug then you can attempt again with other debugging methods.
- Upgrade Points (VP) can be used to help Sora become stronger, and these are done by bug eliminatin and heartless destroyed. Each heartless is worth 10 points.
- KH Coded's Online play can be used to join in and help other players in the game. However the system changes when in the other player's world, can you escape it? By the way the player's other then the one that joined will be shown as a shadow Sora to prevent confusions.


358/2 Days
- The 14th member is not revealed yet.
- Roxas' gameplay in single player mode has been changed slightly to give a more Kingdom Hearts feel.
- Roxas' must collect hearts everyday, in Organization XIII Saix tells Roxas to be more careful next time.
- The game will be moving throughout from Kingdom Hearts 1 - Kingdom Hearts 2.
- Items obtained in Single Player Mode, can be used in Multiplayer Mode. Also the screen below is mostly used to display the map and target, however it is not complete.
- The new gauge LP Mode has not been fully revealed, but is hinted to be used for powerful techniques.
- In single player mode the arrow is under the right corner of the screen, when in multi player it's under the left. They didn't say if this mysterious arrow (Not the arrow showing where your character is) can be used by the touchpad or not.
- There is a type of missions called "Hologram Missions" that can be used in single and multiplayer mode. These missions are not part of the main storyline at all. This is also how the Organization members trained.
- When doing missions you'll be graded with either a "G" or a "N" The "G" means you did good, and your chair will begin to rotate and rise. If you get an "N" the chair will begin to descend, as you either swayed away from your mission or did a bad job.
- The ability of Dodge roll gives more of a KH1 feel then it does KH2FM+
- Some returning enemies from KH1 will be back, however they have been revamped and there are a few other surprises in the game.
- This game is considered to be a mix of the normal Kingdom Hearts feel, as well as a dark feel to it.
- The Organization character's personalities will be fully revealed in this game, this way you can follow the cutscenes better, and the conversations between them can become more interesting.
- This game features an interesting twist in the battle system where you can chain your attacks together! You can attack, use dodgerolling, glide and more into just a single combination!
- The actions and defenses of each Organization member is new, and they all have their own special ability! Xigbar was able to use stronger attacks for a short while.

Birth by Sleep
- The scene of Cinderalla and Ven, is that Cinderalla is rushing towards the castle while Ven is staring at it, what could have caused this scenario?
- There is a possibility of event limitations within the game.
- Donald and Goofy watch as Yensid trains with Mickey in order for Mickey to become a stronger Keyblade warrior. What is his purpose to gain this power?
- Terra and Malificent are working together, Terra's smile is hinting to a connection but Nomura won't say what.
- Nomura hints that not all three Keybladers are connected to the three heroes of Kingdom Hearts II, however this game will explain the original conflict of the Kingdom Hearts series.
- The new enemies names are not announced still...


Source: 2ch

Am I godly or what? Just to finish something, that was shown to me, and that I had never noticed before:

"Blizzrad"? Lol Squeenix you amuse us with your English. =P

Crisis Core english footage

After its release and great sucess on Japan, Square Enix lets us take a sneak peak on the first english footage from Crisis Core.
The voices aren't quite bad, and for those that have seen Advent Children won't be surprised. That's all for now. We'll wait and keep you posted until new footage or gameplay gets available.

Crisis Core - Final Fantasy 7 - is set to be released on US on March 25th, 2008.
As for the PAL releases is still unknown.

Stay with the videos then:

Source: FFInsider

FFIV: Return of the Moon scan

The new upcoming Final Fantasy IV cell phone sequel, Final Fantasy The After: Return of the Moon, is making its deeds and theres already a new scan surfing the web.

The game will be released in Japan on 18th February and will only be available to customers of NTT DoCoMo.

Source: SquareInsider

Director of Crisis Core talks about FFVII remake

The director of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 and Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII, Hajime Tabata, spoke to the Playstation Official Magazine about the most wanted remake of the Final Fantasy titles.
The director stated that a remake isn't on the schedule, but it isn't confirmed as well. According to him, the team in charge of Final Fantasy VII is extremely busy and so the remake could be possible if a free time happens to show up.

"The possibility for a remake may become greater if, for instance, the schedules of the original members of the Final Fantasy VII development team, such as Kitase and Nomura, open up."

This means that we may have to wait until we get what we all want. Maybe after the Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Versus XII teams finish their job on the Fabula Nova Cristallys project.

Source: FFInsider

Nomura interview by Famitsu

To celebrate their 1000th issue, Famitsu released a 4 page interview with Tetsuya Nomura. We don't have any complete translation but we got some translations provided on some webpages which I give credit to kula shakerz for his work to find them.


- While designing Final Fantasy VII, they were indecisive about how spiky to make Cloud's hair.

- He would be happy with Final Fantasy illustrations done only by Amano.

- He likes to draw with just a sharp pencil.

- Lightning from Final Fantasy XIII: Has muscular legs, she isn't sweet and doesn't cry.

- Aya from Parasite Eve 3 is a bid more rounded than Lightning.

- The clothes of the Final Fantasy Versus XII hero will probably be revised.

- He buys games based on Famitsu reviews.

Here are the four scans: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4.

Source: SquareInsider

New scans from Fabula

Some scans with Final Fantasy XII and Final Fantasy Versus XII footage can be found on the internet and we can finally see (here on Square Planet) Lightning's blond friend and some other new characters from Versus XIII.

Final Fantasy XIII

Final Fantasy Versus XIII

Source: FFInsight

And that's all for today. I've been quite busy with school which explains the lack of news here.
Until next time everyone!