Final Fantasy XII DS

The recent lowdown of Final Fantasy XII? It's being developed for the DS! Called Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings, it is supposedly a spin-off of XII.

Revenant Wings tells the story of Vaan and Panelo, two of the main characters from FFXII. Vaan is 18 years old in the game, and has just fulfilled his dream of getting his own plane. He keeps himself free of politics and family life and travels the skies as an air pirate. The 17-year-old Panelo serves as his navigator.

Directing the game is Motome Torishima, who was event planner on Final Fantasy VII, event director for Final Fantasy X and director for FFX-2. He's also working as director on Final Fantasy XIII for the PS3, so he's got some strong ties to the FF series.

Torishima explained to Famitsu the reason for adding this spin-off on the DS. Torishima and all his FF buddies had noticed one thing all across Japan; everyone plays the DS. So they then began considering ideas for games designed for people who aren't gamers. Thats when the idea of a "My first Final Fantasy" came up.

To make a game suitable for inexperienced gamers, Torishima and his FF buddies planned to make something that uses the stylus for control. They also decided to get rid of overly complicated elements from the battle system. While Torishima wouldn't provide specifics, he said we can expect a system that will allow you to defeat your enemies with minimal controls.

As well as this vague promise regarding the battle system, we know just one detail on Revenant Wings. Flight will be a central part of the game. You'll be able to take to an air ship and travel through the land from the very start of the game, Torishima said. Sounds pretty cool. =P

Yokoyama and Torishima's details on the storyline were just as vague... The time frame of Revenant Wings in relation to the main FFXII story isn't important, said Torishima, adding that the game's timeframe is merely an era when Vaan and Panelo were air pirates. The story of XII was, he admitted, that of Vaan and Panelo getting caught up in a storyline that was already taking place with Ashe and the other characters. In Revenant Wings, Vaan has the main character role all to himself.

They also added that the game isn't a sequel to FFXII. It's not like FFXII-2 or anything.

Teaser and trailer:

[Mario Famous]

If this is a runoff of the origional I'm leaving this title alone. As far as FF games go, this was the last one I've played(FF7 still being the best in my book). Along with Dirge of Cerberus, this didn't live up to my standards as an Rpg Game.

[yez]

Originally Posted by Mario Famous

If this is a runoff of the origional I'm leaving this title alone. As far as FF games go, this was the last one I've played(FF7 still being the best in my book). Along with Dirge of Cerberus, this didn't live up to my standards as an Rpg Game.

ff7 sucks! i cant beleive you think its good

[Sepharite]

Lol, you've obviously proved Pilot's point about your intelligence. =/

But... GREAT NEWS. Even though I didn't even play FFXII yet.

[nmaster64]

Originally Posted by Mario Famous

If this is a runoff of the origional I'm leaving this title alone. As far as FF games go, this was the last one I've played(FF7 still being the best in my book). Along with Dirge of Cerberus, this didn't live up to my standards as an Rpg Game.

Are you talking about FFXII? It's not even out anywhere but Japan yet...and Dirge isn't an RPG...and Revenant Wings isn't a "runoff" as much as a "spinoff"...

Final Fantasy III looks good, so I think this one has a chance. I think Final Fantasy is getting way to overplayed though, and honestly I wouldn't mind seeing it die. FFVIII is the only one I care about...VII is good but SO overated...the 2D ones were good, especially VI, but after VIII the series just went to hell...

Anyway, I'd say Revenant Wings has a better chance of being good than FFXII itself, because honestly I haven't been impressed with anything I've seen or heard about the Playstation game...

[Wraith]

Originally Posted by nmaster64

but after VIII the series just went to hell...

What are you talking about.
FFX was so totaly awsome and FFX-2 wasn't bad either.

FFX-2 was horrendous.

don't even talk =P

[Sepharite]

Excluding X-2 (Oh god, if I ever see another game like that again, I'm ALA AKBARing Square-enix)... FF series (after 8) has still been an extremely high quality RPG game. Although extremely overrated, still f*cking awesome <3

I'm off to replay VIII now ._.

[Sparks]

I quite liked FFX, i didn't really get into any of the previous FF. But X-2, that was a load of bull****. The battle system was so fast, it was confusing. I mean, the little bars filled up way too quickly for my liking. I like games where you can think about your strategy, not just click and hope it was the right one. I spose the effects were quite good but the handling, controls and all that, were just pants, not to put too finer point on it.


What system was VIII on? What made it so good? I want to know why everyone loves it so much.

[bignds]

It was on PS1. I played it, it was alright, but i had to find the energy to make it past the very tedious and boring test part at the beginning.