Official Game Package?!

[ShinGundam]

Very tiny game footage :
Final Fantasy Type-0 Gameplay Video - YouTube

[Jiro]

Very interesting! It looks like you control just a single character at a time and have the ability to freely switch between them. Don't know how I feel about that, but at least we're seeing something!

[ShinGundam]

Very interesting! It looks like you control just a single character at a time and have the ability to freely switch between them. Don't know how I feel about that, but at least we're seeing something!

In addition to that, if you don't like dealing with 3 members then you can soloing or choose two members which is better (IMO) and summon reinforcement any time you need them but maybe that will change because we have combo techs for 3 characters now. I liked the ability to summon reinforcement, it makes this FF feels like war simulation.

[qwertysaur]

looks cool.

[Del Murder]

Seeing the game footage made me first think of Crisis Core. Hopefully it's not as repetitive as that game was.

[ShinGundam]

Seeing the game footage made me first think of Crisis Core. Hopefully it's not as repetitive as that game was.

Good point. But if you want my opinion you should expect a degree of repetition because it is a mission based game first of all i don't know how that will hold up but personally I don't mind it at all, the missions give greater immediate purpose so i am indifferent with it. the footage was about mission where you get to liberate Akuvi town(the one in the demo) from Milities and it looks to me each mission has a historical background. That is why i think it is FF meet war simulation.

[Del Murder]

Well, it will have to try really hard (or not try) to be as mundane as Crisis Core, which was basically running behind the enemy (on a very small battle map) constantly hitting the attack command. The addition of party members should already make it more varied. I just hope it requires a bit more tactics than 'run up and attack the enemy with your sword until it's dead'.

[Shaibana]

you have the game?:O when was it released? when wil it be released in europe?

[Remon]

I can't wait! I just love the whole school theme.

[nirojan]

Oh god I hope we get that cover...then again I'll probably be getting it digitally so it doesn't matter. But most likely we wont, because Square Enix North America has this insane agenda of smurfing up all their covers. Don't they realize that we'd be content with the Japanese cover?!?!?

[ShinGundam]

New gameplay preview from Nico Nico Duga, showcases a variety of elements such as special orders, multiplayer, active world map, etc. you can watch it here :
Nicovideo Redirector

or here
FINAL FANTASY Type-0 Atereco Koushien demo play

Enjoy !

[Wolf Kanno]

Well, it will have to try really hard (or not try) to be as mundane as Crisis Core, which was basically running behind the enemy (on a very small battle map) constantly hitting the attack command. The addition of party members should already make it more varied. I just hope it requires a bit more tactics than 'run up and attack the enemy with your sword until it's dead'.

I've been playing the Japanese Demo and I can tell you its got alot more variety. Dodge roll is no longer some broken "get out of damage free" card that it was in Crisis Core and KH. Magic takes on many different effects and create a bit more variety, similar to magic in 358/2 for instance, in the demo Queen has what appears to be a regen spell that creates an area around her that only restores health to allies within in, when she tries to use her blizzard spell, it changes to an over the shoulder targeting view and you get a target crosshair to use as you aim the spell, she fires off an ice shard that explodes into a huge spiky glacier when it hits the target. The Lightning spell worked similar to Crisis Core but you can actually give it a shot gun effect that increases its area of effect and damage output based on proximity to target. The only thing I can't tell yet is if magic is unique to each character, by which I mean that only one character can use one elemental type or if the special effects of the spell are unique as well. Not being good at reading Japanese makes dealing with the menus very tricky...

The real break from monotony is that it appears you can play as all of the characters at any time. You can choose to play as Ace and then switch with Queen who is in your party, then send Ace away and put Machina in your team and switch to him if you want. In the demo you can play as eight different character on the same mission and each character plays very differently to each other. King is slow but uses powerful pistols to hit from a distance, Nine is like a dragoon, Machina has two drill swords, Ace summons cards that work a little bit like Virgil's energy swords in DMC3, bu the color of the card can change the effect of the attack. The characters also get unique melee attacks as well.

Summons are quite potent and completely controllable and only dismiss the summoner (finally!) they are playable for a limited time after summon but they come at the cost of sacrificing a character. Their hp goes to zero when they summon them and they won't be useable again until the mission is over. So there is a tactical compromise with them.

Seriously, if the camera wasn't so fidgety and the controls for the camera weren't so stupid, it would be a pretty damn slick action-rpg. Luckily the delay for the game was to fix all of this so hopefully they got the kinks worked out. Also, the opening is going to make BoB cry.