As Square Enix developers are prone to do, acclaimed Final Fantasy lead Tetsuya Nomura recently dropped some vague information about one of the handful of Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy XIII games that was announced like, a million years ago (okay, okay -- in 2006). Apparently, due to the display of the world map not being up to snuff, Final Fantasy Versus XIII may not make an appearance at this year's E3.
"We were hoping to debut it at E3, but we're not sure now," Nomura told Famitsu (as relayed by FF-Reunion.net). "For displaying characters on the world map, we were originally planning on using the method used by 'FF#,' with a small Noctus running about on the screen, but that didn't look too great, so we ended up switching to the method used by 'FF#.'" Allegedly, the "#" designations used by Famitsu in the preceding quotation were an effort to mask the particular Final Fantasy installments Nomura was referring to. "Famitsu had to block them out," explained Andriasang.
Nomura also suggested that Versus might be benched for E3 2010 in order to give other Square Enix titles at the show more time in the spotlight. Nomura did not mention Agito XIII in the Famitsu article, but did note that, in terms of other projects, "There are a number of them, along with some for which we need to begin preparations for a reveal." That's right -- forget about finally showing us more of the game that was announced four years ago, bring on Final Fantasy XV!
[Via Andriasang]
Reader Comments (53)
Posted: Feb 18th 2010 3:08AM (Unverified) said
Alright with the Final Fantasy games already. Versus looks badass and has much more hope over FF13. Anyways FF# was my personal favorite, but everyone is entitled to their opinions. Here is Square-Enix's line up at E3 this year
*Kingdom Hearts 3 (A Guy can wish, but Square never satisfies)
*Agito XIII
*Versus XIII
*Final Fantasy XIV
*Final Fantasy XV
*Final Fantasy XVI
*Final Fantasy XVII (Actually a VII remake hence the 10 year anniversary)
*and last but not least Final Fantasy OMG! Edition featuring everyone's favorite FF# throw into a pot and sturred thoroughly
*Kingdom Hearts 3 (A Guy can wish, but Square never satisfies)
*Agito XIII
*Versus XIII
*Final Fantasy XIV
*Final Fantasy XV
*Final Fantasy XVI
*Final Fantasy XVII (Actually a VII remake hence the 10 year anniversary)
*and last but not least Final Fantasy OMG! Edition featuring everyone's favorite FF# throw into a pot and sturred thoroughly
Posted: Feb 18th 2010 10:26PM (Unverified) said
That last one is already on the PSP, it's called Dissidia: Final Fantasy, lol. Oh, and can't forget Itadaki Street Special for the PS2. =D
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Posted: Feb 18th 2010 10:24PM (Unverified) said
I believe the unveil may be that Final Fantasy Haeresis XIII that they patened the logo for so long ago. Why would it be a Final Fantasy XV? They still have 3 more projects for the Crystalis projects, and then a few other titles unrelated to Final Fantasy, like that Parasite Eve for the PSP or something of that nature.
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