Whilst Final Fantasy Versus XIII may be the " fan favourite ", it seems its finally taken a back seat to the development of Final Fantasy XIII, which is now of top priority to Square Enix. In this writers opinion, it's about time !
This information was released in a new interview within the latest edition of Famitsu. A translation of the major area's cover in the interview is below :
- DKΣ3713 is a private show so for the general public that wants to see and play the games, TGS in October will feature more new information.
- The event will be at the same format as previous S-E events, with closed theatre as well as playable booths outside.
- Birth by Sleep will be playable for the first time at the event.
- Despite the news that Square Enix was going to scale back from Mobile development, it appears that Kingdom Hearts: Coded, 3rd Birthday and Agito XIII will still be going ahead.
- Agito XIII seems to be facing serious development issues at the moment. There is a huge worldview and historical timeline.
- The director of Agito XIII is doing the outline of the entire story synopsis himself now, development is still in early stages.
- Versus XIII is on hold until FFXIII is done, because the entire Versus team is helping to finish Final Fantasy XIII at the moment. It is number one priority.
- While the planners and programmers are all working on Final Fantasy XIII, the Versus project is getting the designers to work on a lot of image illustrations and conceptual visuals. The story for Versus is also pretty much complete.
- Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days is being tuned and balanced, but it is not quite as polished as Dissidia yet. They'll be taking feedback from the playable demo.
- Birth by Sleep is not anywhere close to a final build, but Nomura wants to let people get a chance to try it out first.
- Advent Children Complete might finally be close to getting a release date.
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- Versus XIII is on hold until FFXIII is done, because the entire Versus team is helping to finish Final Fantasy XIII at the moment.
Lets stay hopeful !?
Still, lets hope for a Spring~ish release of FF XIII? Pretty sure it was said that FF XIII wouldn't be getting a 2008 release, but I could be wrong about that....
I must say, I'm a bit more interested in Versus XIII, it looks cooler from what I've seen (the whole flying swords thing).....
Anyway this is good news, finish the main project quicker, than move to finish the other one. This can only mean they want to finish this game and release ASAP.
FFXIII is a typical FF RPG.
FFvsXIII is a typical Nomura action-RPG wankfest. *prepares to be thumbed down*
so theres no connection between the two?
yet one of them is titled exactly like the other, with a 'versus' added on?
what the hell is going on in japan?
Eurogamer is stating that this was merely a miss-interpretation =[
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Well, this is fine too. Versus XIII persons working on the 'regular' XIII game, when they have the time to do so.
Works for me....I just hope FF XIII comes out within the next year or so >_>