I know, you reread my post title a few times, didn’t you? That’s some seriously unsure terminology if I’ve ever heard it. It came straight from the mouth of Hajime Tabata, the game’s director (he is also working on the PSP title Final Fantasy Agito XIII). In a recent interview with Famitsu, he states that The 3rd Birthday “isn’t exactly a “true” third-person shooter”. But it’s being called a third person shooter? What?
If you’re a Square fan like me, you’re probably already having frightening flashbacks of Dirge of Cerebus, but I am hoping for better. We now also know that the game begins in Manhattan, where you fight creatures called the Twisted, who have arrived in New York through some sort of crazy time schism.
Most interesting of all to me is a comment about Aya’s age from Scenario director Motomu Toriyama. As you may have noticed, she is looking rather young for her stated age (she is 35 in The 3rd Birthday). Toriyama commented that it was “difficult to make a woman in her mid-thirties the main attraction for any video game”. Wow. Hey ladies, you know after thirty, you become utterly devoid of worth, right?
The 3rd Birthday will be released later this year (the date is currently TBA).
[Via PSX Extreme]
