Final Fantasy Versus XIII Director Talks Details
Since being announced at E3 2006, we still know very little about Final Fantasy Versus XIII. Sure, we know the name of the main character, Noctis and we also know that gameplay will be similar to that of the Kingdom Hearts series, seeing as Director Tetsuya Nomura has directed the entire Kingdom Hearts series so far. We also know that the story is finalized, which is always nice to hear (it should be!) and some small, various random facts about the game. Good news though, Mr. Nomura has opened up and revealed some details…but there’s some good news and some bad news for those waiting patiently for the PS3 exclusive action-adventure RPG.
First, the bad news. Thanks to the almighty news machine that is Twitter, Noruma-san summoned some details… and they certainly aren’t what you want to hear.
“Versus has had many difficulties, and past method of production have been completely inapplicable, but these are the difficulties of birth, so we are working hard.”
Perhaps he’s referring to the difficulties of developing for the PS3? You’d think by now Square Enix would know what they’re doing with having FF XIII under their belt. Nomura-san also talked a bit about the ‘world map’, trying to clear confusion screenshots might have made.
“There have been many questions regarding fields. It’s not a completely open world. It’s like the 2D FF games in HD. Although, in terms of looks, it’s not a top-down view, it’s like the screenshots that have been released. You’ll move through the world from that view.”
If you’re wondering what screenshots he’s talking about, check out the beauties here. Finally a bit of good news. The game is far enough along that voice actors are being cast.
“Agito and Versus have different production styles and progress states, but they’re both presently undergoing voice casting. 3rd Birthday’s recording will end shortly. Next up is Agito.”
Square Enix claims that Final Fantasy Versus XIII will ‘make a splash’ at Tokyo Game Show 2010, which is why they don’t plan on showing it at Gamescom next week. We here at PlayStation just don’t hope that ‘splash’ is that Versus XIII will be hitting the 360 also.
When any details, big or small, come down the line regarding Final Fantasy Versus XIII, you better believe PlayStation LifeStyle will let you know all about them!
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8 Responses to “Final Fantasy Versus XIII Director Talks Details”
I think Nomura means a world map like FFVII-VIII-IX but a bit more interactive…which i think fans will love.
Two questions linger unanswered though.Which year will it be released US and EU and if it will remain as it is (PS3 exclusive)If the later is answered with a 360 port it changes the perspective of many viewing how the game will be.It will have less potential just like XIII is.
I give credit to Microsoft though they fund 3rd party devs to develop their projects even if they’re multiplatform.That’s what happened with FFXIII and went multiplatform,that’s also what happened with Tales of Vesperia.Microsoft gives a badget for development they may get some time exclusivity but eventualy these devs use Microsoft’s budge to make both versions.
Sony really needs to step up on this and support 3rd party devs with the same manner and also get some exclusivity.Especially with SE which they supposed to have strong ties with each other
this has got to be at least better than that other awful FF13 title. Sounds like this is a traditional RPG
@thomas
Same guess here Tom unfortunately.Nomura and his team are working on multiple projects thus they’re taking so long.
I was really hyped with this one but after Wada’s hint of a possible multiplatform release my interest took the slide.
FFXIII was decent but i was a bit disappointed (like many other fans i was expecting a bit more, especially in this generation of gaming,).It’s true potential was lost between consoles,formats and the porting job.I really don’t want this to happen for this one.They should focus on the game alone.
yeah i’ll wait for the reviews on this one…made the mistake of pre-ordering ff13…regretted that one
Yeah I read that on their 3rd Birthday account but didn’t make much sense because translating from Japanese to English is complicated.
Anyway, they can take their time making this great looking game. All I’m waiting for right now is The 3rd Birthday.
still havent played 13. looking forward to this one though.
well, this game will have to be vastly different from XIII to gain my interest. I got XIII on sale, thank god I didn’t pay full price – its by far the worst FF game I’ve ever played. Besides the graphics, everything has taken a serious downgrade. I feel like all I’ve been doing for the first 10 hours is watching lame cutscenes (its all just fluff! theres no depth to this! characters only really express emotions by groaning!) and pressing X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, AAAND X. Wheres the strategy? My current one is to keep a beer in the left hand so it has something to do. I know I’m late on the complain about XIII train, but really I’m just saying that if
Versus or Agito bear any resemblance to crappenfest, then I’m done with this franchise.
I agree completely with Big Woop. The 15 hours of FFXIII that I played were such mindless repetition that it destroyed my interest in gaming for two weeks afterwards. I just used my PS3 for streaming Netflix movies – I had no interest in playing a game. Suffer through that tedium for another 5 hours to get to what is supposedly the “good” part? Good grief, I’ve got better things to do with my life.
So no, I have absolutely no interest in Final Fantasy any more. I don’t care if the next game gets an 11/10 – the last one got an 8 and it was the worst thing I’ve ever played in my life.