Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Import Review: Dissidia Final Fantasy

It certainly has granted me the excitement everyday in my boring routine life ever since I got my order from Play-Asia. I am really thankful for Square-Enix to bring this celebration of 20th anniversary of Final Fantasy to PSP! And, I have to say, Dissidia Final Fantasy certainly worth the money I have spent (even though it is Japanese import), and certainly is the representative to 20th birthday of Final Fantasy. There are tons of modes for playing the game, including Story Mode and Dual Mode. I have been playing Dual Mode, i.e., fighting with the CPU, which is fun enough. Story Mode requires some knowledge of Japanese... Even only Dual Mode, I have already spent like 30 hours in the game -- got addicted to improve the levels of these characters. Moreover, there are still so many modes that I haven't tried yet (damn my poor Japanese).


As a lot of sites mentioned, the battling system is certainly innovative and interesting. You press 'circle' button to "rob" your opponent's brave points (BP), which determines your attack power, i.e., the amount of health points (HP) damage that you are going to impose on your opponent when you press 'square' button. And, you have that EX gauge that when reaches maximum you can inflict flashy, stylish, critical final blow (most of the time anyway) on your opponent. Let's quickly have a review on this game using these common aspects, namely Story, Control, Graphic, and Sound.
Story: It simply is a (ever-lasting) fight between evil (Chaos god) and good (Cosmos goddess). Somehow, both sides able to summon the bad guys and good guys from Final Fantasy worlds (I to XII) and fight to death to each other. Story sounds lame, but as a fan, I really love it!
Control: Control is simple enough (not like Street Fighter kinda game that you have to use the directional knob like a monkey), yet so in-depth. It has so much customization, I am really impressed.
Graphic: OK, I don't need to talk about this cause no doubt, and no one would say otherwise, the graphic makes you think this is a PS2 game!
Sound: I even have the soundtrack! The music is just... amazing!

In conclusions, it is 5 of 5 stars game!!

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