So in this article, as you saw the title… we will be talking about a game that haven’t showed up at the world wild stage yet but only present in Japan. I present to you one of the biggest fantasm of every fan of Final Fantasy series, Dissidia: Final Fantasy.
You don’t know about that game you tell? Oh dear gamer, you still have a lot to learn!! Dissidia: Final Fantasy is a fighting game regrouping all the heroes from the Final Fantasy series (1 to 14). Two games of the same franchise have been released in 2012 and 2013 named Dissidia: Final Fantasy which had the characters from 1 until 10 and Dissidia 012: Final Fantasy which included just Lightning from Final Fantasy 12.
I’ve had the pleasure to play it myself in Taito Club in Tokyo a few weeks ago and I was certainly not disappointed even though the game has literally change from what it was on PlayStation Portable.
As I was saying earlier, you have heroes coming from all the episodes (apart from the 15 obviously), so in total 14 heroes and 14 villains playable just for your own pleasure. Each characters are divided in 4 different categories:
• Heavy Power
• Speed
• Magician/ Shooter
• Unique
For example in Heavy Power, I played with Cloud (my favourite hero in Final Fantasy), no matter how strong are his attacks, he is unfortunately slow compare to other characters but he will deal great damage to other opponents.
For the Speed category, I used Lightning from Final Fantasy 12. Really fast characters and can jump up to 3 times in the air as well but she compensate her lack of power with fast attack and movement around your opponents. Each category give the players to play with certain tactics that can lead them to a certain victory like I did against some Japanese guys… Yeah I’m a beast in this game!
Instead of the original 1v1, you play 3v3 now either with two other players or the cpu will take control of your allies. It actually bring another atmosphere in the game and more excitement as well as in original Final Fantasy, you had/have to play in team of 3 and 4 people now, so it’s really nice that they bringing it into this fighting games to make the gameplay deeper than it already is.
Let’s talk about the fighting commands now as this is the trickiest part of the game, you got the Brave attack which will reduce the bravery of your opponents and get yourself up, HP attack which affects the HP of your opponents to a certain extent which is why you need to put their Bravery down first,but also the EX limits (if I remember correctly) which is like their own super skills. Also there’s a Summon Bar for the team to invoke any invocations by collecting crystals during the fight as they appear anywhere on the map. If you talk about summons and if you know your lessons about Final Fantasy, you would know that I talk about Ifrit, Shiva, Ramuh and more.
Graphically, the game is superb. The maps or arena are big enough to go wherever you wanna go or setting traps but I won’t spoil too much about it… if I had to compare the graphics of the game with Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children, I would say they actually kinda on the same level, that’s how much they’ve been working on it to make it beautiful either it’s the characters, summons, environments or the Fx.
In general, Dissidia: Final Fantasy is a really good fighting and competitive game for players as fans or occasionals. It’s really complex though if you don’t know the mechanics of the gameplay at first but as soon that you understand your way around it, trust me you will enjoy it to is fullest. Unfortunately, it is only available into Taito Club Arcade in Japan for now as Square Enix believed that they don’t need to release it on console as it was announced first, but even though there’s still hope for a PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita release.
Let’s just wait and see now…
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