New Dissidia vid shows off some summons

by Majed Athab { Oct 20th 2008 at 9:30AM }

There are summoned creatures in the 'dramatic progressive action' title Dissidia: Final Fantasy, but they may not be exactly what you'd expect them to be. They pop up as static 2D images during gameplay -- no fancy FMVs here, folks. You can check out two of the summons (Ifrit and Carbuncle) in the trailer posted above.

Summon creatures appear upon pressing the R trigger together with the circle button. In the case of Ifrit, summons appear as equipable items (as represented on the HUD). Judging by the way they're used in the trailer, the summons primarily affect the Brave gauge -- Carbuncle adjusts the enemy's Brave to match the player's, while boosts a player's Brave by 1.5.

Tags: dissidia, dissidia-final-fantasy, final-fantasy, square-enix

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

squallex @ Oct 20th 2008 11:02AM

GREEAAATTT!!! Imagine a Final Fantasy tittle without summons... No way. Lame it's 2D sprites :( (we can´t win them all) but I'm glad there will be summons(who doesn't?). I wanna have Dissidia on my hands now!!!

LokeSTL @ Oct 20th 2008 12:36PM

Looks awesome! Now hopefully they'll remedy the PSP-3000s scanline and interlacing problems so it can look it's best when I play this. Wishful thinking I'm sure....

money_mike_preme @ Oct 20th 2008 1:13PM

i think they got the 2d sprite idea from how they did summons in final fantasy tactics (my fav one!)

Christopher @ Oct 20th 2008 5:30PM

Uh, OK. Looks OK, but 2D illustrations over 3D fighting looks kind of... cheap. *sigh* Oh well.

cafecito @ Oct 20th 2008 9:55PM

It does look cheap IMO. But I guess it's OK. Long cutscenes would just break the game's pace.

QMarc80 @ Oct 20th 2008 11:47PM

I have to admit that I'm not impressed. I understand that this is a fighting game, but why not have real animations for the summons? Just figured it might be better to have the summon do the work than to just have an attack based on that summon.

s.mario @ Oct 21st 2008 10:52AM

This game looks extremely boring to me...its kinda like Powerstone, only the levels are drab, and the fighting requires way too much chasing...

Are people really excited about this? It looks like a total waste of money. Common guys, i know we're getting desperate for games, but this is just sad...