If you fancy getting traumatized this morning, watch the above video. It's the opening moments of Final Fantasy: Type 0 and it will tear away everything that you've ever held as good because a Chocobo gets totally f*cked up in it.
It's been a while since I've seen such a bloody and dismal scene in Final Fantasy, but the fact that it goes so far as to kill a Chocobo is bound to ruin a few mornings. This is just how the game starts, too. By the end of it, I hope they've got Moogles strung up by their balls and sliced open so their intestines are dribbling over their screaming faces.
In all seriousness, with Thanksgiving around the corner there's no more festive a time to shoot a giant bird in its head. Om nom nom!
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I'd be upset if I didn't read, "In all seriousness, with Thanksgiving around the corner there's no more festive a time to shoot a giant bird in its head. Om nom nom!" Damn you, Jim!! I'm at work right now trying not to laugh hysterically.
Wow, that was incredibly dark for a Final Fantasy game. I like the vibe.
Square animation continues to be incredible. The music is good as usual, and the costumes for the males, even though they're uniforms, are better than I've seen in recent games.
Just downloaded it last night and playing it now.
Game is fantastic. Genuinely fantastic.
They took implemented most of the requests from the fan comments on the demo (improved phantoma drawing, faster and more fluid camera, etc).
My penis just exploded! I love the darker direction. Well I just love darker stuff in general. This and ffvs13 look like a really good direction for the series. :)
I am entitled to this game now square, since you made my dick explode and all.
just saw it, great music, everything but their hands looked good graphically, and really I have to hand it to them that they conveyed emotion pretty well because I don't even speak the language and I was about to cry like a bitch with them. I'm guessing it'll end up being a turn based affair (oh well...), but that's what fans expect from Squeenix anyways.
That was awesome!!! I love the darker direction.
If I am able to personally kill a Chocobo in game this will be a day one purchase. If I can have sex with the Chocobo's dead corpse afterwards I'll pre-order.
I'm with Jim here, wholesale slaughter of a moogle village, moogle women and moogle children included, would be on par with Kefka walking into town and committing genocide on the Espers. Do it SE Do it!!
I hope it gets released here as some kind of digital download. My money's on a downloadable PSP version, or one of those HD "PSP Remaster" games with Dual Shock controls and everything. I thought they would have started launching those HD PSP games by now though.
This looks so good! I wasn't expecting people to get blown up, then for one of them to be on fire and screaming... When has anything like that been in a FF game haha Hopefully they'll upscale it or something for when the Vita comes out.
Hmm. Well, before watching it, I had absolutely no interest in this title, but I have to say, now I am interested.
Damn you though, Jim, for setting the bar at, "Moogles strung up by their balls and sliced open so their intestines are dribbling over their screaming faces". There's no way S/E can live up to that.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go lament the silence of the chocobos.
HOLY BALLS! I'm VERY happy to see them taking the series to a mature place. I remember a few years ago seeing the trailer for FF13VS and noticing blood. This has officially made its way on my radar now too.
The last "mature"-ish Final Fantasy we got was Final Fantasy 7...remember that? I hear it turned out pretty good.
Yeah, I'm glad that Square is trying a somewhat mroe mature angle to this one. That, a world map, and distancing itself from XIII makes me seriously want to give this an honest try.
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The characters are still overly effeminate and talk way more than they should.
Perhaps I've just outgrown the series.
I'm gonna have to fire up the old Wii and run through a few hours of Chocobo Dungeon to burn that shit out of my head.
That way both PSVita and PSP can play it
Square animation continues to be incredible. The music is good as usual, and the costumes for the males, even though they're uniforms, are better than I've seen in recent games.
I like what I've seen so far.
Game is fantastic. Genuinely fantastic.
They took implemented most of the requests from the fan comments on the demo (improved phantoma drawing, faster and more fluid camera, etc).
Seriously, best FF in a long time.
Yeah. That got...a little dark.
I am entitled to this game now square, since you made my dick explode and all.
If I am able to personally kill a Chocobo in game this will be a day one purchase. If I can have sex with the Chocobo's dead corpse afterwards I'll pre-order.
You listening Squeenix? ;P
Damn you though, Jim, for setting the bar at, "Moogles strung up by their balls and sliced open so their intestines are dribbling over their screaming faces". There's no way S/E can live up to that.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go lament the silence of the chocobos.
The last "mature"-ish Final Fantasy we got was Final Fantasy 7...remember that? I hear it turned out pretty good.
This game is awesome they even bring back chocoba breeding, vehicle and world map from good old FF!
I can't really think when I saw that much blood in a game before. I guess its because I really only play RPGs.