Home >> News >> Final Fantasy News >> New Final Fantasy XIII scans from Play and OPM

>> Click here for Final Fantasy Ringtones




New Final Fantasy XIII scans from Play and OPM

By Kionae 801 days ago
Category: Final Fantasy News
Linked games : Final Fantasy 13
My god, it's information about Final Fantasy XIII... that's not in Japanese..

Current issues of Play and OPM both feature two-page arcticles on Square-Enix's PS3 Final Fantasy debut compilation, Fabula Nova Crystallis: Final Fantasy XIII. Play's article, in particular has quite a few details that most of us hadn't heard yet.

Not only are there tidbits of story info (for example that in FFXIII, magic and technology are so inter-realted that magic has become an indespensible part of everyday life... that in FF Versus XIII, the main character is a member of the royal house that controls the last Crystals, and thus magic... and that in FF Agito XIII, players will take on the role of a student at the Periticum school of magic and go about their daily lives), but there is also some details on game play.

Final Fantasy XIII will feature the Active Time Battle system, but with some new features... including and Overclock Gauge that will give the player an ability similar to the Matrix's 'bullet time'. Additionally, battles will involve 360 degrees of movement, with enemies attacking from all sides (including from above). Additionally, there is no evidence of Final Fantasy's usual MP gauge, and it is suspected that since technology and magic are so interlinked, MP has been replaced by the ATB Cost feature seen in screenshots.

For even more information, read though the articles in the scans.

Source: FinalFantasy-13.net

Add to Digg
Report to a moderator

Comments

By: Seph Stampede



On: 12:28 Jun 19th, 2006
Offline
Very interesting theories regarding the gameplay.

By: The Man



On: 01:12 Jun 19th, 2006
Offline
I really like magic being a part of characters' everyday life, I always thought it was a bit dull and pretentious when every RPG ever made made magic some rare genetic skill or some shit. Keep that shit for the X-men comics, thanks.

By: Kionae



On: 01:41 Jun 19th, 2006
Offline
I'm interested in this combat system they're coming up with and how it's going to work when you've got more than one party member (because they've already confirmed that you'd have multi-character parties in XIII). Are they going to be like Kingdom Hearts and have the AI control the rest or the party, or do you get to control them yourself?

By: Blitzballer

On: 07:30 Jun 29th, 2006
Offline
http://www.ps3land.com/article-450.php

Few more scans here

By: Kionae



On: 08:12 Jun 29th, 2006
Offline
I love how they proclaim those to be "new" screens. Better quality than previously seen, maybe, but they were in, I think it was Famitsu, last month. :lol:

By: Undertakeress

On: 09:25 Jun 29th, 2006
Offline
You could've just asked and I would've scanned my OPM last week :p

By: Kionae



On: 09:35 Jun 29th, 2006
Offline





Undertakeress

You could've just asked and I would've scanned my OPM last week :p



*smacks you upside the head* You didn't tell me you got OPM. :p

Add a comment

Post a Submission