With the announcement of Theatrhythym: Final Fantasy for the Nintendo 3DS, fans of Dissidia have been wondering if this is the new evoltuion of the sub-franchise. Tetsuya Nomura addresses this head on (but briefly) in this week’s Famitsu. According to him, “Theatrhythym is not the future of Dissidia”. So perhaps those of you holding out for another Dissidia title may have a new glimmer of hope!
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So… you want another “Dissidia” eh?
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011Ishimoto on composing for Dissidia
Sunday, June 26th, 2011Gamespot sat down with Square-Enix composer Takeharu Ishimoto to ask him about the Dissidia games’ soundtracks and the process by which they were created. Also in attendance was Free Dominguez, part of the band Kidneythieves who worked with Ishimoto to create Dissidia 012: Final Fantasy’s song “God in Fire” in which she sings the vocals.
Ishimoto commented on the arrangement process of many songs that were already created and beloved by fans, citing that they did little to change the original melody of the songs, but instead changed many of the instruments at play as well as modifying the rythym of the track to better suit Dissidia’s frenetic battle pacing. One of the major challenges of the games was travelling abroad to work with artists such as Kidneythieves and Your Favorite Enemies as well as recording in Prague.
■ You can read the full interview here.
Via: Gamespot
Kitase interested in PSP remastering
Monday, June 13th, 2011Final Fantasy super-producer Yoshinori Kitase commented briefly this week in this week’s Dengeki PlayStation that he is in fact interested in PSP remasterings of their products. We can only speculate that Final Fantasy Type-0 may be remastered for it’s upcoming summer release, but there is a library of Final Fantasy games on the PSP that may also be considered such as Dissidia and Duodecim as well as Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII. Remastered PSP games are buffed up to look nice on a HD screen, and popular Japanese franchises such as Metal Gear Solid and Monster Hunter are leading the way into the new series.
Two titles specifically mentioned in the article by Motomu Toriyama include Dissidia and Crisis Core, however in regards to the official status, the director only stated they were still a “blank slate”, which likely means final decisions have not been made yet.
It is very important that you chime in! What Final Fantasy PSP titles would you like to see remastered for PS3? Let us know your opinions!
Dissidia, Crisis Core get Sony commendations
Friday, February 25th, 2011Sony Computer Entertainment America updated their official blog today to announce a price drop for the PSP (now $129.99). Included in the announcement: Dissidia: Final Fantasy has joined the ranks of Greatest Hits and is now available for $19.99. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII is now $9.99 and classified as a PSP “Favorite”. The former is also available as a download off the PlayStation Network.
Via: Official US PlayStation Blog
FF Play Arts at the 2011 Toy Fair
Monday, February 14th, 2011Final Fantasy action figures were spotted at the 2011 Toy Fair underway in New York City. Square-Enix’s Play Arts line of action figures and merchandise manufactures many videogame franchises beyond their own intellectual property. In the pictures linked below, we can see action figures from Dissidia: Final Fantasy including Cloud Strife, Squall Leonhart, and Gabranth. The Final Fantasy XIII Creatures Vol. 3 line also features action figures based off of monster and Eidolon designs seen in-game. Shiva is seen at the forefront. The figures will be available for purchase in the summer of this year.
■ View the Dissidia Play Arts: 1, 2
■ View the Final Fantasy XIII Creatures Vol. 3 Play Arts.
Via: Play Arts – Twitter
FF staff involved with new American-dev’d title
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
If you haven’t heard of CEDEC, think of it as a gathering of minds within the gaming industry alike GDC but held in Japan. Particularly of note, some Final Fantasy staff names were dropped in the production of a new large-scale American developed video game title. It appears that Dissidia: Final Fantasy director Yosuke Shiokawa and Final Fantasy XIII concept artist Yuki Matsuzawa. While they mainly detailed the development process of their current title, they happened to mention that it has been in the works for over a year and a half. The first year of development was conceptualizing the title, and building a prototype at 70% of the final quality of the game. The next several months after that have been the attempt to coordinate some of the development process in terms of creating the flow of the game as well as experimenting with the build that has been created.
This also marks the first large-scale project being developed by Square-Enix with an American development studio. Interestingly enough, Shiokawa made the comment that American audiences typically prefer protagonists that are more believable. That, and he had to relinquish the role of a top-down director (giving people specifications without feedback) to one where he would present his ideas to a group, and there would be a “free debate” over the concepts that would be incorporated into the game.
Could this possibly be the ill-fated Fortress (supposed Final Fantasy XII sequel) project that Square-Enix has been keeping afloat in the wake of Swedish developer GRIN’s bankruptcy?
Via: AndriaSang
Dissidia Theatre: Now taking submissions!
Monday, August 16th, 2010
FinalFantasy.net introduces a new segment where we’ll be featuring submissons of Dissidia videos (we’re open to artful screenshots too) by our readers. I’ll start this week off with a video from my personal collection!
Do you have an epic win you pulled over on someone on Ad-Hoc Party or do you have a cinematic you’d like to show off to display your creative use of the editor? Either way, we’d love to feature it! Head over to our Staff page and send me an email along with your name (or screen-name) and a link to your video. Please make sure the site and video are able to be embedded in HTML, and that video is of good visible quality. I’m personally looking forward to watching all of your submissions!
Square-Enix interested in Dissidia fans’ opinions
Monday, August 9th, 2010
The official site for Dissidia: Final Fantasy Universal Tuning updated with a new post today asking for fans to submit their opinions in a survey about Dissidia and the Final Fantasy series itself. After the completion of Dissidia and Universal Tuning, artist and developer Tetsuya Nomura stated that if there was enough interest from the fans (and sales), that he would consider developing a sequel. Perhaps it may be inferred that this might be the first step in doing so. The survey will be open until September 5th at midnight. If you wish to take the survey yourself, you will need a Japanese Square-Enix Members account.
http://member.square-enix.com/jp/special/dissidia/
