The talented Craig Stacy has decided to wow us once again with another of his funny Final Fantasy cartoons in the Final Fantasy Life section. Check out Week 8!
As of Tuesday, October 9 Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions for Playstation Portable has been available store-wide in North America! Get one before they're gone!
Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core is leading the pack on Japanese sales charts. The game is a prequel released for the PSP platform. It ended the week selling 487,000 copies. I hope they release it here in the west soon.
There is a petition circulating around the internet to get Final Fantasy 7 remade. As you are all aware FF 7 was the game that catapulted the series into the mainstream. Many fans would like to see the game get a facelift for modern consoles.
The petition has gathered 14000 signatures, and you can add yours here.
Square Enix has announced another Fan Festival in celebration of their upcoming fourth expansion to Final Fantasy XI. Wings of the Goddess is the latest expansion for the MMORPG.
Fans who attend will be able to see and play some live quests of the new expansion and attend panels that contain the FFXI development team.
The event will be located at the Hilton Hotel in Anaheim, California. It lasts 3 days from Nov. 15th -17th.
You can pre-register at the official FFXI Festival website. Pre-registering will cost US$85 which covers the admission for three days, a 'Gobbiebag' filled with goodies and an exclusive in-game item only available to attendees.
Only 1500 people can attend by the way, so register fast!
News from the Playstation Premier event has trickled its way down to us on this side of the Pacific. Apparently Final Fantasy 13 is only 13% complete and Versus 13 is only 1.3% complete.
What does this really mean? Nothing. Obviously the 13% and 1.3% numbers are a joke, given the title of the game is FF13. I imagine that Square merely thinks that these titles still have a long way to go. I do predict that we'll see these games launched on more than just the Playstation 3. I wouldn't be surprised at all to see Square's next big Final Fantasy come out on the 360. Thats right, the Xbox 360.
From E3, new details of the "Wings of the Goddess" Final Fantasy XI expansion have been released.
The expansion will include 30 new areas, new monsters and jobs. Most of the content will be aimed at experienced players.
The expansion offers a view into the Crystal Wars- 20 years into the
game's past. Also things that happen while in the past could affect the
games present such as monsters could become extinct.
This expansion will be made available across all three FFXI platforms.
Tetsuya Nomura seems to be getting a lot of coverage these days. Heres another interview with him. This time its the Fabula Nova Crystallis project.
"In Versus XIII we want to elaborate more on the world and the human
side of the characters, their way of thinking and how and why they
behave like they do. This might take the game conception to a darker
level than the other games in the FF series"
"How Versus XIII’s concept works is difficult to explain, because it’s
really more about the series as a whole than just FFXIII. There are no
explicit rules for how a Final Fantasy game should be...I want to
propose another view of how FF could be, or should be: there is a long
tradition, and my intention is that Versus will be distinct from that"
"The stories from the past entries in the Final Fantasy series are not
exactly as I would have done, but that’s as it should be because I
didn’t direct them. My only concern in terms of Versus XIII is that FF
always talks about human emotion and psychologies in a broad way, and I
want to go deeper in terms of offering some crude reality in terms of
human emotion or human behaviour."
"There are no particular shared aspects of the [three] stories,
characters or locations, but there is a battle of the gods that lies
behind each tale and gives it inspiration in a different way"
"One of the directions that interests me is how to manage and create,
using the PS3, a seamless environment. In the past, field space has
always been limited technically – in Versus XIII we want to see a
seamless environment, and that in itself will create new situations and
game elements"
"But as for the differences between KH and FF, KH is a lighter world of
magic, fantasy, and people doing good things. I’ve been in that world
for a very long time – perhaps too long"
The rumor in Japan is that Square won't be releasing any new Final Fantasy titles until after their current fiscal year which ends in March 2008. This pushes our eagerly anticipated Final Fantasy 13 title out until April 2008. Joystiq is predicting that for us Americans, we won't see any new titles until 2009.
Come on Square, give me a break. I want my Final Fantasy.
Last week I mentioned that Piano Squall has recorded himself playing some great tracks from his new album titled "GAME". Today I got my hands on some exclusive audio and video from the recording of GAME.
