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New FFXII Info

PS2

18th December 2003, 8:50pm
Square Enix has revealed new details of Final Fantasy XII for PlayStation 2:

  • Fran is a woman of the Viera race, she is a reliable person. She has strong fencing and grapple skills.
  • Balflear is a 22 year old Hume, he will play a big part of the story. He is a partner of Fran, and he becomes Vaan's companion early in the game.
  • There will be many other important but non-playable characters in the game.
  • The new graphic engine in the game will use less polygons but give higher quality 3D graphics.
  • Airships are important in the game, since the map is considerable wide.
  • The camera angel in the field and dungeons can be changed manually.
  • To distinguish between different races, the appearance of the dialog subtitles will be different.
  • The battle system is said to be like Final Fantasy X-2 plus various new elements.
  • In the battle, you can equip gems in the gem slots, the effects are not yet announced.
  • Some elements from FFX and FFXI will be applied to FFXII, thanks to the help from production team 1 & 2 who worked on the two games in the game.
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by Vasu Chetty