Square Enix TGS Blowout: FFXIII Versus, 3rd Birthday and More!

[Rock Raiyu]

Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep - Playstation Portable

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Release Date Info:

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The Japanese blog, FF-Reunion, is reporting that Birth by Sleep will be released in Japan in January 2010!

Thanks to peachie on the forums for letting us know!

Source:
FF-Reunion Blog Archive

- Terra and Aqua are taking the “Master Acknowledgement Test” (Ven is watching?) A new samurai-like character appears. Xehanort is also in sight.
- A board game screen appears. Cinderella throws dice. Might this have something to do with the new growth system?
- Aqua speaks with someone in white clothing. Two large men (who look just like two members of Organization XIII) are protecting the castle. (Evan Dylan Eleaus?) [Sorry for spelling errors. I think she’s just wondering about who it might be.)
- Ven wears armor, and flies into space. He’s riding something like a keyblade...?
- At the keyblade graveyard Xehanort faces off with Terra, Aqua, and Ven. The word “Keyblade wars” comes up.

The new trailer starts out with a scene where Aqua, one of the three protagonists, is making a charm that looks like it’s made from a sarasa shell, and gives it to Terra and Ven. Then it shows a new character which looks very samurai-like. We see Terra and Ven taking a “Master Test”, are they taking a test to become Masters? Master Xehanort is there as a “guest”. We see a scene where he is telling something to Terra. At this point in time it seems that he is respected by everyone.

(image of Master Xehanort)
This is the Master Xehanort we’ve seen before. He seems to be a be crazy here.

Now there is a montage of scenes, where we see what definitely looks like a board game. Cinderella throws some dice and we see it roll across the board. Nomura has mentioned before that “The growth system will be very strange, something like a minigame...” so perhaps this is it!? We see Vexen in a white coat with Xaldin and Lexaeus in guard type uniforms. These look like scenes from the Organization XIII member’s human lives.

In the SE booth there are also videos of multiplayer, as well as scenes from Peter Pan and Cinderella’s world.

(montage of various in game images)
You can see playing multiplayer with three people. In the Peter Pan world, we can see differences from what we’ve seen in the series to date.

We also get to hear the voice of the masked keyblade wielder that we’ve seen before with Master Xehanort. We also see Ven becoming armored and riding something that looks like the keyblade from KHII FM “tamarishi shinen” [don’t know English name, if there is one.] and riding in space with Stitch. There were a lot of very surprising scenes. At the very end it shows the release date as January 2010.

(image of Master Xehanort’s disciple)
A strage person wearing something like looks like a bike suit. The voice sounded male...

The Third Birthday

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This long-awaited PSP sequel to the Parasite Eve games looks like a lot of fun — it’s actually an over-the-shoulder third person shooter in the Resident Evil 4 milieu.

Final Fantasy Versus XIII

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Holy cow, they actually showed real gameplay of Final Fantasy Versus XIII! It doesn’t look anywhere close to done, of course. It’s a third-person action game with a free camera — all they showed was a main character running around some unfinished environments with a bare-bones HUD. It’s not enough to determine even what the game’s genre is, to look at this footage — it was literally a video shot off someone’s computer monitor at a development station. In the second scene, the character ran around a field full of crazy dinosaur-lookin’ monsters. Could this be a Monster Hunter-style game? It certainly looks like it from the footage, but who knows?

Final Fantasy Agito XIII

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This looks much more complete than Versus. The gameplay footage showed a much more polished-looking HUD on the PSP screen — it looked much nicer and more like a finished product than what I remember from the Closed Mega Theaters of years past.

News Source: (Retrieved from a Warez Forum)

 

[casidepro]

Whats the difference between Agito and Versus?

 

[Cablephish]

Agito is a PSP spinoff, where as Versus will be on the PS3 as well.

 

[Anakir]

Am I the only one seeing 001Shit? I know its an 8 lol.

 

[Rock Raiyu]

That's a record someone broke. Says "0013 Hit/Record 0013"

 

[Mangofett]

Haha I see it, and lol great to see PSP getting more love

 

[shakirmoledina]

nothing shown lol... maybe u could change the sources

Quote - Be afraid of a gentleman when he is hungry, and of a mean person when his stomach is full (strange but interesting when pondered upon)

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

I seem to like all of 'em now

 

[prowler]

dude your bandwidth has exceeded