Final Fantasy Versus XIII has been temporarily suspended and its programming team transitioned into assist mode. Versus director Tetsuya Nomura explained that Square Enix's top priority is completing work on Final Fantasy XIII, which means the Versus team has placed its project on ice and headed across the hall to lend a hand. A few remaining designers are still working on conceptual art for Versus, and the story is supposedly complete.
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"Reports that development for Final Fantasy Versus XIII is on hold are false," the publisher said in a statement passed on to Eurogamer. "The truth of the situation is that when free, some staff from the Versus team have been helping with the XIII team on development of Final Fantasy XIII. Development for both titles is continuing as originally scheduled."
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The two scans of the faces are CG and the other two scans (see gallery below) are real-time. Looking at this, it hit home for the first time that I am about to experience Final Fantasy in a way I never have before on the PS3. I only hope as it appears there it can live up to the quality of experience set by its predecessors.
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As part of a twelve page blowout on the Fabula Nova Crystallis series this week, Famitsu gave FF Versus XIII its fair share with four pages of coverage. Unfortunately, there's no gameplay information, and most of the details are just speculation based off the included screenshots (all of which are confirmed by the magazine to be real time), but there are a few new bits of information on the hero and heroine.
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While many of us have (perhaps foolishly) assumed that Final Fantasy XIII would be one of the "killer apps" for Sony's PlayStation 3 in 2008, suddenly it's not looking so good. Last May, Square Enix president Yoichi Wada told reporters in Tokyo that the game would require more time. "It will still take a bit more time. At the very least [a release] this fiscal year is definitely out of the question," he said.
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This time the interview is from the latest issue of Dengeki Playstation who talked with Nomura during DKS3137. He re-confirms that Final Fantasy Versus XIII will be a worldwide PS 3 exclusive. There will also be a lot of natural scenary in this game. FFv13 will have the usual feel of a Final Fantasy game. It feels like I am creating the FF7. The team im working with includes many members from the KH, FF7 and FF8 teams.
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An interview with Nomura touching on story, next gen development and an interesting bit about exclusivity: "Just the other day, during a Versus meeting, a programmer asked, 'Is it okay to program with PS3 exclusivity in mind?'." I asked why, and he said, 'If we port it to other hardware, we have to program with that in mind.' I responded, 'Of course, Versus is PS3 exclusive.'" "
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Jewelry lover Tetsuya Nomura talks about how Final Fantasy Versus XIII will be different from all those other FF games Square Enix pumps out. Sure, all Final Fantasy games are slightly different, but Nomura's will be even more slightly different. And how so? Read further to find out.
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FF Versus XIII Interview with Nomura: "What I want to do is to examine the humanity of the characters in this game. This is not going to be a fantasy world in the traditional Final Fantasy sense. Rather it's based in the world today with all of this world's ugly issues. There's this mainstream tradition of Final Fantasy games and, in Versus I'm trying to propose new vision of how a Final Fantasy game can be. The game's going to be more human than the science-fiction caricature we so often see. It will focus around current world events - in that sense it's darker."
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Kitase explains that while all the games in the Fabula series are all based on the same legend and mythology of a crystal, each director has a free hand on interpreting the myth. Final Fantasy Versus XIII, under director Tetsuya Nomura, will have a more "action-based" command system. If you're wondering what that means, think Kingdom Hearts, which was also under the direction of Nomura.
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