Duodecim Shock: Cid of Lufaine is a Moogle?

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Countdown to Duodecim 6: One More Week!

Hi one and all, with have one more week until the launch of Dissidia 012: Final Fantasy. Yes...it's next Thursday. Yippee. I can hardly contain my excitement. I can't imagine I actually followed a game from announcement to launch, with a few weeks exception in between (exams and stuff), but yea, that's amazing. Congratulations, I think. That's the word I should be telling myself. Yea, that's it.

Countdown to Duodecim 5: Gilgamesh and more!

Ladies and gentlemen, in two weeks time, we will be enjoying ourselves crazy with Duodecim, albeit it is in Japanese. I'm sure most of you would get it anyway. Joining the "officially announced" characters, is Gilgamesh, the cult icon that appeared in most Final Fantasies since FF5. However, this will be his FF5 incarnation as well as some allusions to his later appearances. He will be the first NEW and hopefully not the last Warrior of Chaos to join the battle in Dissidia 012: Final Fantasy. Although Desperado Chaos is most likely a playable character, I wouldn't count him as a proper Warrior of Chaos. Sure hope there are some new Chaos Warriors, like Barthandelus or Eald'narche, although Prishe confirmation (coupled with developers considering Eald'narche and his brother before choosing Prishe) seems to deny Eald'narche a place in Duodecim.

Countdown to Duodecim 4: Box Art, OST and Stuff

Hey, one and all, it's around three weeks until Dissidia 012 [Duodecim]: Final Fantasy is released. The hype is pretty much building up, with Box Art, OSTs and Stuff being revealed along the way. There is at least one playable character who has not been officially revealed, and up to three characters who will possible be revealed, namely Gilgamesh, Desperado Chaos and the mysterious Moogle/FFXIII Cosmos Warrior. I can't wait, I can't wait, I want it NOW!

Countdown to Duodecim 3: Prishe and more

Been pretty messed up lately, just realized I totally missed last week's Countdown to Duodecim. With all the midterm tests preparation last week, history and morals...urgh... and preparation for Chinese New Year this week...ungahh!!! For those of you who do not know, Chinese New Year is a day the Chinese celebrate for the coming of a new year base on the Lunar Calendar. We clean our houses, probably what most people would know as Spring Cleaning. We also give away stuff like cookies, cakes and red packets (ang pau) and we receive them back again. Pretty redundant really. But it is all done in the name of relationship between "long lost" relatives. By the way, it's tomorrow.

Anyway, back on topic, not much news on Duodecim lately, I tried to dig up what I missed last week, but nothing much really. There are a few interesting ones though. FEW. 

Gaming Sunday: Dissidia 012 Prologus: Final Fantasy (JPN)

Introduction

Ah! The urge has thus been quenched, if only for a while. Thank God for the arrival of Dissidia 012 Prologus: Final Fantasy (henceforth known as Prologus). My urge to play Dissidia 012: Final Fantasy (hence forth Duodecim) has been fulfilled, if only for a while. Square Enix sure is smart to include a PAY to download demo, which includes a Story Mode, an Arcade Mode and a DLC assist character for the full game which will be arriving on US shores on 22nd March. Lightning and Kain are the only new characters playable in this demo, along with 6 others. It is really a short game that exposes to the some of the major changes involved in Duodecim, like assists and chase. What do you expect from a 300 yen demo? That's 11 bucks where I live, and 3.60 dollars in the US.

Dissidia 012: Final Fantasy Alternates

As promised, I shall deliver.

I will be posting up images of 3rd alternate, and a couple of 2nd alternates (namely Yuna and some changed 2nd alternates) and give some of my thoughts on them. Let's start off with the very first Final Fantasy.

FFI

Countdown to Duodecim 2: SE 1st Production Department Premier and more

It's been a few days since Square Enix's 1st Production Department Premier (formerly known as Fabula Nova Crystallis Conference), and dust have settled. Rumors and truth have now been distinguished, and it's time to write about it. I think. So let's kick things off with some none Duodecim stuff, like Fabula Nova Crystallis(FNC) and Kingdom Hearts 3D.

Countdown to Duodecim 1: Yuna, PSP Bundle and more.

 

Wee...woohoo...wow...Yuna has been officially confirmed to take part in the epic battle between Chaos and Cosmos this coming March! Let me take a breather. Anyways, welcome to our very first...erm...episode/chapter/post...on Countdown to Dissidia [012] Duodecim: Final Fantasy, or shortened to Countdown to Duodecim, really. This is the first of a few posts, which will occur once a week, until the launch of Duodecim in Japan on 3rd March. I will be rambling on about my thoughts on Duodecim, and talk about various updates, such as the inclusion of lovely summoner Yuna, and complain about other stuff, such as why Yuna is not a gunner. Without further ado, let us begin our very first Countdown to Duodecim.

Newsflash (i guess): Laguna in Duodecim, Aya gets more outfits...

Well, this would probably have appeared in my blog a few days ago, if...IF...i didn't have my exams, so anyway, quite a number of big news surrounding Duodecim, including 1 new character, 1 new stage and some other stuff...

Duodecim News from Famitsu

 

Newsflash: Vaan in Duodecim, Aya as Maid

The next Dissidia [012]: Final Fantasy Character has been revealed. It's none other than the pretty much known Vaan. I mean, come on, everyone knows he's gonna be in it. He was the main character in Final Fantasy 12, and his voice actors, yes actorS, both english and japanese, have long since hinted that he is going to be in this game. I wonder how many Balthier fans and Ashe fans are gonna weep and moaned. It's widely agreed upon that Vaan is not in the very least a very much liked character.

Dissidia Duodecim Dreams 2

Theres really no other I can put up for now....

I had a dream again, and this one made me so happy I woke up with a stupid grin. I wished I hadn't wake up at all. Glad I chose to go back to sleep when I first woke up at around 9, otherwise I wouldn't have this dream. Yea, I woke up at 11 today, so it ain't that long of a dream. You might ask, why share with us your dream? Well, first off, I feel its rather interesting, and I have stated in my very first post that this blog also serves as a sort of record for my life, so yeah.

Anyway, I was dreaming that I was playing the game on Christmas...woohoo, apparently it was released on December 19th. I wonder where the heck I got this date. But it's quite possible that it will be released in December since the North American version is due for a release in Q1 2011. So who knows? The first thing that came to mind when I play it was, the developers did a good job by changing the menus art and style so that it doesn't feel like the last Dissidia. The menus are way different, especially the character selection menu, where the first thing that came to mind when I reflected on it (after I woke up) was it felt more like generic fighting games as compared to the original Dissidia. In my dream, the characters are represented by the icons that are usually present when they fight (the circular one). Another thing I really want to see implemented is the ability to change costumes without accessing the Customization menu, especially with 3 costumes now.

Dissidia Duodecim Dreams

While waiting for the video processing to finish, which has taken me the entire afternoon, and this is my 3rd retry, let me entertain you with an odd dream of mine. Well, with all the hype about Dissidia Duodecim and my Programming II test, some sort of odd dream is bound to show up sooner than later.

Some of you might know from the previous blog that I'm a weird dreamer. Seriously, most of my dreams are weird and mess up, and some are very deja-vu-ish. There was one time I dreamt about my aunt carrying my cousin and walking across the road. Bamp, it happened. But considering the percentage of happening, it might just be entirely coincidental. Whatever...