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Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest Teamup
Eurogamer reports on a PSP title that will see Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest character meeting up for the second time. From the article: "Japanese magazine Shonen Jump has revealed the first snippets of info about the game, including news that it will feature playable characters from both series, including Final Fantasy XII's Fran and Balflear. Stages will include one based on the Phantom Train in Final Fantasy VI. This isn't the first time Squenix has produced a DQ/FF game - back in 2004, they released Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Special for the PS2. It was a big hit in Japan, but never made it over here. The PSP game won't be a direct port of the original - instead it'll feature all-new characters and stages. "
The 2d final fantasy games were great(some may argue greater than the 3d ones, but thats another topic) so why don't they create a NEW 2d final fantasy game? Instead, we get either a)a billion and one ports of the older 2d titles or b)some "Jetsons meet the Flintstones" type game(such as the one in question).
Come on Square-Enix, give the fans what they have been slobbering for, some new games in the old-school style!
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I was already under the general impression that the PSP, overall, was a flop. This tears it for me.
Rehashes, blends, and clones are the only things I've seen for the PSP. The only game I've played for it that did anything new and different was the Pac-Man 3D game, and that was not a change for the better. 8-bit Pac-Man could run circles around that yellow blob with legs. Pac-Man shouldn't HAVE legs!
Not only that, but the article says that "it will feature playable characters from both series, including Final Fantasy XII's Fran and Balflear. Stages will include one based on the Phantom Train in Final Fantasy VI." So not only are they doing an "X meets Y" crossover that's never quite as good as either of the standalones, they're taking things from multiple Final Fantasy Games. Cool though it might be, I'm pretty sure no Final Fantasy fan wants to see Cloud fight Kefka. It's justn ot natural.
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...The Dragon Quest games for the game cube, or revolution. My favorite series of all time, yet i refuse to buy a playstation for two games...i also happen to like zelda & mario so that's why i stick with nintendo
When is the PSP going to get another non-sequel/port? Now, given that the US never got the original, I guess this game could be considered the second 'original' PSP game. Still... Lumines is the only game I enjoy on the PSP right now.
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FINAL -- coming at the end : being the last in a series, process, or progress
Am I the only one who is upset at the repeated mis-use of the word "final"?
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Please, for the love of Christ, "Slashdot Game Section", prove you're more than just a marketing droid for fanboys.
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest? With a name like that, it could never lose!
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You should see how Square's treating the Nintendo DS... they've made at least three games for the DS so far-- and have zero plans to release any of them in the U.S...
Kefka was the most evil character I've ever seen in a video game.
I think SHODAN could give him a run for his money.
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This game is basically Monopoly, but more advanced and certainly prettier. All of the characters are the same - that is that no one character is any better than any other character. This puts to rest all of those "Cloud would kill Kefka" fanboy-ism that is going on.
The game stands out on it's own merrits, that is that it involves a lot of strategy and requires that you be shrewd with your opponents in order. There are the standard chance and community chest type cards (which portray scenes from 2D FF and DQ games) which you pick from a 10x10 grid. If you get a combo (5 or more cards in a row without your opponent blocking) you start getting money multiplier bonuses.
At the end of the day, this game is still just Monopoly, where your 3d animated character throws the dice around, moves around the game board (in this case Ghost Train level of FF6), pays rent to the property owner, and waits for his next turn.
You can check out the webpage at http://www.square-enix.co.jp/games/ps2/itastsp/ where they have mini-games to this effect.
In short, this is nothing to get your hopes up for unless you're like me and actually enjoy Japanesse Monopoly with a dificulty level of hard, HARD, and HARDEST.
I want to know about the developers. Chrono Trigger (which had DQ, FF, and DBZ talent poured into it as I recall) was a masterpiece. It'd be interesting to see what the FF and DQ team could come up with together now that they are in a single company.
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Chrono Trigger was produced by "Dream Project" which featured members of both the Final Fantasy (Square) and Dragon Quest (Enix) teams. It was a hell of a good game, and that cooperation was long before Square and Enix merged. I'd personally like to see Dream Project get back together and do a third Chrono title (maybe Chrono Break, since they did reserve the name, though that game is nothing but vaporware at this point).
So I tried to play FFX but I get the sense I'm missing a lot of backstory. Is there some kind of compilation or way I can play through the whole thing?
Final Quest AND Dragon Fantasy
And how many books, movies, etc don't involve such a thing? Maybe not worlds, but quite often whole cities, continents, and sometimes beyond the world to the galaxy etc.
"Saving the world" has been a theme of books, movies, and even games for a long time.