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!

Star Ocean 4 trailer on the web

Hey there everyone! Welcome to 2008! And better to begin this year on Square Planet than to show you the new Star Ocean 4 trailer.
Square Enix and Tri-Ace join forces again to continue one of the greatest series, debuted at the Jump Festa 2008 conference.
Still, the trailer doesn't reveal any more news than some of the footage. Release date and platform whch will receive this game is still unkown.

Source: Square Insider

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.