Buy Final Fantasy I because it’s pretty?

Final Fantasy I for the PSP just got released alongside with some promotional video footage. We’re not the fans of the Final Fantasy but the promo video sure is one of the worst we’ve ever seen.

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Crisis Core limited edition UMD

For all the FINAL FANTASY fans, and for those who will become ones, there is a special UMD that comes with the pre-order of the Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII. It’s called “Shinra UMD case”, and it looks really cool. Pre-order your game in one of the participating stores: GameStop/EB Games, Game Crazy, or Amazon, and add one more cool FINAL FANTASY item to your collection.

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Crisis Core Europe release date confirmed

Game that managed to sell over 350.000 of customized PSP Slims during first day of it’s debut in Japan has just got European release date confirmed. Or something like that. In a Square Enix official statement about the upcoming release, besides endless Crisis Core bragging and lack of US release date is announcement that Crisis Core will hit the Europe in spring.

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350.000 of Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core sold on the first day!

On Thursday’s official release date for Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, Japanese gamers stood in lines for hours just to snatch a copy of the game, or special release of customized PSP Slim packaged with the game. Figures are quite impressive, 350.000 copies of Crisis Core were sold on the same day, and 60.000 of those were customized PSP Slims, making Crisis Core second best first-day sales for a PSP game. First place is still firmly Monster Hunter Portable 2, which scored 510.000 copies in one day.

Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions gets a release date

Square Enix has released a statement and within it, disclosed a release date for PSP version of Final Fantasy Tactics. War of the Lions will include some updated features, like graphics and cutscenes. Also, new characters as well as character classes will appear in this upcoming release. Final Fantasy fans rejoice, War of the Lions comes to stores on 5th of October in Europe, and on 9th of October in the USA.

John Yamamoto, Square Enix president
Despite being portable, this is still the same epic Final Fantasy experience that the series is famous for with stunning graphics, classic storytelling and a beautiful score.

Final Fantasy II

This game, with the tradition of 20 years (yeah, 20 years!!), will never die, because it’s offering fun and imaginative characters who develop nicely over the course of the game. The beautiful visual style also helps push the game out of the realm of RPG dinosaurs, and it’s nice to see your character’s emote during conversations.

While the game in many ways looks similar to the FFI Anniversary (beautiful character and enemy models, tons of little touches throughout towns and dungeons), the game plays quite differently. It takes much longer to grind through stat levels and attributes in FFII, for example, thanks to the stat system which requires you to make some tough choices on how you level up your characters. This can get a bit tricky at times and a little frustrating. For instance, if you want a character who excels at casting magic, you’ll have to consistently cast spells. But you’ll also want them to have a decent attack level to balance things out; unfortunately, you can’t achieve that unless the character actually attacks something. The system takes a little time to adjust to and will definitely try your patience.

IGN
In FINAL FANTASY II, a malevolent emperor has called upon monsters from a demonic realm to take over the world, ending what seemed to be an eternal period of peace. Thousands of lives succumb to their attacks, leaving many children orphaned. From the destruction rise four young survivors who will take it upon themselves to stop the merciless ruler and avenge the death of their parents.

Remastered exclusively for the PSP system, this all-new anniversary edition features all-new character art, updated graphics, new dungeons, full 16:9 widescreen presentation and an updated camera view that gives players a new vantage point on such a timeless classic RPG.