SquareEnix PARTY 2k7 - *UPDATES*

Fresh new informations from the party here!




For FINAL FANTASY fanboys/girs here is your potion,
you never know when this stuff can be useful!


For the mobile system, a new PARASITE EVE game is coming, the title will be "The 3rd Bithday" or something on those lines.


Oh yeah, Medias, we love them, and, What's there?
A disc containing FF:DISSIDIA informations? Maybe Videos too?
We must have it!



CRISIS CORE HANDS ON!
A very accurated review of the gameplay basis on the DEMO provided at the show!
Thanks to IGN



The demo at the show today had two scenarios. The first scenario started-off with Zack in his home base. His commander is talking to him about something I didn't understand because it was all in Japanese. Nevertheless, the conversation got pretty heated and out of no where, bad guys start attacking the Shinra building they're in. Zack heads out to the lobby to find the thugs laying waste to the building. Zack takes them out and heads outside. We meet a few familiar Turks, chat and eventually run into Genesis. He does a relentless job of unleashing this one power attack that make Zack look like a joke. But if you stay on him, he'll go down in no time.

The second scenario starts Zack in the streets again, only it's on the freeway. More thugs are popping-up. It may feel a bit overwhelming, but Zack is a pretty impressive fighter. He take on a mini-boss, kills him and meets up with Angeal. They have an exchange and finally Angeal picks up Zack and flys him (with his one wing) to the Shinra building in the distance. Zack encounters a few robot enemies here, and finds a lab. Genesis is in here and he stirs up trouble by blowing up a reactor of sorts. He flies away so Angeal and Zack go after him. When they catch up with him, Angeal takes on Genesis and Zack has to deal with Bahamut. Now Bahamut is pretty intimidating, especially when he unleashes one of his more elaborate attacks that requires a switch to a CG cutscene. He leaves the planet uses another planet as a weapon to hurt Zack pretty bad. After a few well placed magic attack, this overgrown bully goes down pretty fast.

As our previous hands-on has stated before, Crisis Core is mostly action with menu-based elements. You have full control over Zack when moving around, and can rotate the camera with the left and right triggers. Every now and then, you'll get into a random battle. The battle takes place on the same screen as regular movement, with no transition or loading. At this point, you're still free to move Zack around the battle field, but the right and left triggers are re-purposed to select commands from the command bar in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. You shuttle through the selections with the triggers, and execute the commands by pressing the X button. For attack, have the sword icon selected, then hit X. The same thing applies to executing magic attacks like fire, blizzard, cure and their higher level counterparts. But expect to deplete magic points with each use. There is also a block and roll maneuver.

As it stands now, the blocking function can get a little tricky. It lags behind the button press, so it might not be there to help you protect yourself. But the game is still in development, so that might get ironed out by the time the game releases. But from the looks of things, Zack's attacks are usually devastating enough to take down his enemies before he starts blocking.

Another interesting twist is that the game does a ton of stuff for you, like targeting enemies and unleashing the equivalents of limit breaks. The top-left corner of the screen houses a 3 wheel slot machine that constantly spins. The icons on the wheel itself are the faces of characters you meet through-out the game. When you meet new characters, you unlock their face on the slot wheels. When the wheel decides to give you three of the same face in a row, Zack will attack with an ability based on the character in roulette wheel. This attack can be a wild slashing blitz (which requires it's own event sequence), or a menacing summon. It may sound like having the game decide all of this stuff for you takes the fun away, but so far it doesn't. The unpredictability of it makes for some exciting fights.