Final Fantasy XII Details Leak Ahead Of Unveiling

Thanks to GameSpot for its coverage of pictures and details of Square Enix's Final Fantasy XII, as a Japanese print magazine released a very short preview ahead of "an official presentation of the game" on November 19th in Tokyo. According to the piece, the game "...will take place in a fantasy world where there are other races aside from humans, and flying vessels fill the sky", and "main characters in Final Fantasy XII are a boy named Van and a girl named Arche." The available media also contains a CG shot of "a soldier riding on a chocobo", for those worried their favorite winged creature would be excluded from this instalment.

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Different Races? Airships?!!!

[quandrum]

Next they are going to tell me that there is a character named Cid! Or the money is called Gil?!!! Magic with names like Fire and Firaga?!!!!!!!! Bombs as... monsters??? Seriously, this is a one page age that tells us teh characters names, and gives us an idea of their costumes...

Spoilers Ahead

[cgenman]

Final Fantasy XII takes place in a magical fantasy world, where humans co-exist with beasts. Mysterious rocks will power spells, summon monstrous beasts, and boost either HP or SP.

The Hero is a young man, just heading out into the world with nothing to his name but a sword and a bad haircut. Soon, he will discover the truth of his origins and the love of a childhood friend. He will form a rag-tag band including a fighter, a healing spellcaster, a criminal with a heart of gold, and a cute, semi-coherent, bumbling creature. But the forces of the Dark Empire are looming, and must be stopped from destroying the planet in their mad quest for non-ecofriendly power.

In their quest players will join the rebellion, ride on Chocobos, and fly in Airships. They must defeat the underworld people, release the spirits on a haunted boat, visit the tree of Mana, and discover the power of love.

The game is roughly 40-50 hours long, though much longer if you want to complete all of the side quests. I don't want to give away too much here, but lots of mini-games will be involved.

All in all, another revolutionary game from the greatest game company that ever lived. The only problem is that those random enemy encounters are just too frequent, but that will probably be fixed for the American release. 9.5 out of 10.

Re:Spoilers Ahead

[Tofino]

You forgot that the Dark Empire is ruled by a long-haired prettyboy. But don't be fooled -- perhaps that's not his true form!

Re:Character Design

[pmz]

6. Sketch a woman, remove the breasts and makeup = instant male hero.

No wonder I'm so attracted to male CG characters. Thanks, this means I'm not gay at all!

It's About Time...

[wickedj]

It's about frickin' time they added "Pirate" to the set of job classes. I can't wait to play him. Arggggggg maties... chocobo dead ahead.

Re:It's About Time...

[Anonymous Coward]

More like "Argggg maties......check out all this copyright infrigment I'm doing!"

Tee-Hee

Welcome back

[Daetrin]

Does anyone else find the name 'Final Fantasy XII' rather odd? Shouldn't the final fantasy be once and for all? Great series and probably the most famous of all RPG's, but a better name would have been nice. Still, I suppose it is too late to stop now...

Welcome out from under whatever rock you've been hiding under for the past fifteen years! After you've finished scraping off all the moss that must have accumlated over that time, i'd like you to read through this six foot stack of printouts detailing every one of the hundreds of thousands of instances in which someone has made an "OMG it's called _Final_ Fantasy but there's been more than one of them! HAHAHAHAH!" joke.

Once you've familarized yourself with the long, boring, and not anywhere near anything even remotely resembling funny histoy of the topic you will be prepared to participate in a real discusion.