Square Enix confirmed Final Fantasy VIII protagonist Squall Leonhart and Final Fantasy V protagonist Bartz Klauser as playable characters in the upcoming arcade version of Dissidia Final Fantasy during a live stream this morning. In-development versions of the characters were shown.
Dissidia Final Fantasy is due out in Japanese arcades this fall. Watch the full stream below.
Bartz’ footage begins at 46:35, and Squall’s begins at 52:20.
It's
been known for a while now that the third DLC pack for Xenoverse,
when it finally comes out, will contain playable characters from the
new film. However, an unannounced bonus pack was just released
yesterday, containing even more Resurrection 'F' goodness!
The
pack, which is free to players who previously purchased the Season
Pass (unsure on if it's free for everyone or not) contains two
outfits and one accessory for our customizable characters.
Whis
Symbol Gi
Whis
Symbol Armor
Super
Saiyan God Super Saiyan Goku Wig
The
Gi and Armor are the outfits that Goku and Vegeta wear in the new
movie, after Whis 'autographs' them, and the wig gives the playable
characters Goku's SSGSS hair. The items are deposited right into your
inventory, so you don't even have to spend any in-game zeni on them
to use them.
We're
still waiting on the release of DLC Pack 3, which contains SSGSS Goku
and Vegeta, as well as Golden Frieza and Jaco, as playable characters
among other bonuses, but it should be released any day now.
It's
been known for a while that Western audiences were finally going to
get to play J-Stars Victory Vs. at long last, but we didn't know
exactly when...until now.
Bandai
Namco has just announced that the US will receive the game for PS3,
PS4, and (digitally on) Vita on June 30th! The UK will see
a release four days prior to this on the 26th.
J-Stars
Victory Vs. is the latest in a 'series' of games from Japan that
mashes up characters from various Shonen Jump titles such as Dragon
Ball, Naruto, Bleach, Yu Yu Hakusho, One Piece, JoJo's Bizarre
Adventure, and many many more. The game allows you to duke it out in
various locales from the included series, as well as play a story
mode in a world that's a mash-up of these series as well. Unique to
the non-Japanese release of the game however (hence the '+') will be
some gameplay tweaks to balance the characters better, as well as an
'Arcade' mode to add further replay value.
Europe
(and the US if they order from GameStop) will have the option to
pre-order and receive a 'compendium' which will have character art
and brief blurbs about the various titles included.
I
am super excited for this game, being a big fan of a lot of the
titles included as well as Shonen Jump in general. Time to pre-order!
Dissidia Final Fantasy for arcades will have 14 playable characters at launch, Square Enix clarified during a live stream this morning.
On Friday, Japanese outlets reported the publisher as saying at its Closed Conference event that the game would launch with 50 characters. But this was misreported, the company said. Rather, Square Enix is planning to have 50 playable characters in the long run, added to the game via post-launch updates.
To date, the following seven characters have been confirmed:
Warrior of Light (Final Fantasy I)
Onion Knight (Final Fantasy III)
Terra Branford (Final Fantasy VI)
Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy VII)
Lightning (Final Fantasy XIII)
Y’Shtola (Final Fantasy XIV)
Ramza Beoulve (Final Fantasy Tactics)
View some footage from the broadcast below.
While the battle set up menu (the picture with Y'Shtola up top) might look familiar to players of the handheld Dissidia titles on PSP the battle hud still looks just a tad bit cluttered to me. Also of important note is the lack of villains in the starting line up. Now I'm sure with 50+ playable characters we'll get some villains eventually but one my favorite things in the handheld titles was maining Garland.
However I do wonder if Kenji Utsumi's death in June 2013 is a reason we haven't seen the character added to the roster; Square Enix might be pretty busy both casting voice actors for any roles that have never before had speaking parts AND having to recast Garland. If Garland does appear we at least still have his English voice actor, Chris Sabat of FUNimation, here to be his VA...unless we get a different director for this game than the previous two games had. That director Bob Buchholz is a different voice director than the one for the main Final Fantasy series (Jack Fletcher) and while many may have criticized the direction he gave most of the actors he is at least kind enough to try and keep voice actors as consistent as possible.
Square Enix showed off the latest trailer for the upcoming arcade game, Dissidia Final Fantasy, and
the developers have uploaded another pair of videos, including one that
compares the game’s arcade looks to what it would look like on
PlayStation 4.
The above video shows the comparison between what Dissidia Final Fantasy looks like on arcade and what it would look like on PlayStation 4. As previously reported,
a PS4 version hasn’t been “officially” announced yet, as Square Enix
said that they would like for fans to enjoy it first in arcades. They
mentioned that there won’t be any development towards a console release
until at least a year after the launch of the arcade version.
The second video shows more gameplay
footage of the characters, starting with Warrior of Light, Onion Knight,
Terra, Cloud, Lightning, and Y’shtola. The video also shows a glimpse
of a Midgar stage, along with more 3v3 action and Ifrit in battle.
Bandai
Namco USA has announced that the second DLC pack for Dragon Ball
Xenoverse, which is coming out in Japan on April 8, will be available
to American players starting on April 14th. The pack will
include the following:
4
playable characters (Nuova Shenron, Eis Shenron, Towa, Mira)
3
Time Patrol Quests (story mode)
3
Parallel Quests
Pan
(GT) as a Master, with 5 Master Quests
5
full costumes from Pan (GT), Gogeta, Super 17, Towa, and Mira)
22
moves from Pan (GT), Nuova Shenron, Eis Shenron, Towa, and Mira
5
new Z-Souls (two from Pan, one each from the other newly playable
characters)
DLC
Pack 2 will retail from the PSN store for $9.99, or if you have or
purchase the Season Pass for all DLC for $24.99, you'll be able to
download it automatically.
