Final Fantasy Dissidia

Dissidia: Final Fantasy's genre has been described as "dramatic progressive action" and its graphics will be in three dimensions. It will have wireless one-on-one game play and fights revolving around the use of individual special skill sets of characters to do damage to opponents. The player can also customize their characters with equipment.

Characters movement is navigable within the three-dimensional field map. Characters are able to perform special maneuvers such as running on walls and sliding on rails by pressing the triangle button on the PlayStation gamepad whenever a guide appears in the field map. There are also field elements known as Dejon Trap which decreases a character's Brave points.

The overall objective of the game is to reduce the opponent’s HP to zero. This is done by attacking them using either of two attack types; the single-hit HP attack and combo-able assist attack; using the square or circle buttons on the PlayStation game controller respectively. HP attack drains the opponent's HP while assist attack drains the opponent's Brave while increasing their own. Brave is the stat that determines each character's attack power. Depleting the Brave stat enables a character to enter a state known as Break.

Another element known EX mode enables a character to inflict massive damage to an opponent. Each character has an EX gauge that increases by obtaining an item known as EX force that appears in each stages. A player enter the EX mode by pressing square and X on the gamepad when the EX gauge is filled. Performing a combo during EX mode allows a character to unleash an unavoidable EX burst special move, similar to the limit break in the Final Fantasy series.

There are several tactics the player should be aware of in battle. Moving around and jumping is essential. Some characters even have triple jumps. The characters have a different set of attacking methods: HP attacks and Assist attacks without pressing a direction, HP attacks and Assist attacks while pressing a direction, HP attacks and Assist attacks in the air and so on. These attacks are significantly different from each other as some attacks are short range while some are long range, some are fast to initiate, while some are slow. The R button is guard and pressing X with R is a quick dodge.



Characters

Title/ Hero /Villain
Final Fantasy /Warrior of Light/ Garland
Final Fantasy II /Firion /Emperor Palamecia
Final Fantasy VII /Cloud /Sephiroth
Final Fantasy VIII /Squall Leonhart/ Ultimecia
Final Fantasy IX /Zidane /Tribal Kuja
Final Fantasy X /Tidus /Seymour

The game will reunite both protagonists and antagonists from installments of the main Final Fantasy series. Chaos will also make an appearance as the god of darkness, while a new character, Cosmos, will appear as the goddess of light. Recent articles released in Japanese magazines have stated that the game will have a storyline that requires playing through all of the characters to complete. There will be a minimum of ten main characters (not including their villain counterparts), and hidden characters are a possibilty. Characters can gain customizable equipment, and will also be able to earn experience and gil. Tetsuya Nomura is responsible for the character designs, which will retain much of the look and style of Yoshitaka Amano's illusrations.


Development:
Dissidia was introduced in an American trademark on April 6, 2007, where relation to Final Fantasy was omitted.Some sites speculated this was an edition of Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy XIII.The title was connected with Final Fantasy when Square Enix introduced Dissidia: Final Fantasy on May 9, 2007 with an official Japanese website. The game is being directed by Yousuke Shiokawa and will feature music by Takeharu Ishimoto. Takeshi Nozue will be the movie director.

What do you guys think?

 

I don't think they have said anything about a NA release, but they have copyrighted the name "dissidia" in the US so you never know.