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Re: Dissidia 012: The European limited edition, Gilgamesh goes EX - News at Final Fantasy Insight

TonyKM — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:54:45 -0000

Testing the commenting feature!

Re: Dissidia 012: The European limited edition, Gilgamesh goes EX - News at Final Fantasy Insight

TonyKM — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:16:09 -0000

Testumalating.

Re: Dissidia 012: The European limited edition, Gilgamesh goes EX - News at Final Fantasy Insight

TonyKM — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:55:12 -0000

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Re: Dissidia 012: The European limited edition, Gilgamesh goes EX - News at Final Fantasy Insight

TonyKM — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:47:35 -0000

Testing whether the comment-counter works.

Re: Final Fantasy Type-0 to be a series rivalling Final Fantasy in length? - News at Final Fantasy Insight

TonyKM — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:32:05 -0000

:O I SEE A JOELS COMMENT!

Re: Dissidia 012: Gilgamesh "confirmed", soundtrack details - News at Final Fantasy Insight

TonyKM — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:11:34 -0000

Yep, comments are back! It does seem weird that we have no new characters from VI and IX, I mean they had some of the largest and most diverse casts, you'd expect more from them...

Re: See you on sunday! - Final Fantasy Insight

TonyKM — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:56:59 -0000

Thanks! I know it's been and gone, but you took the time to wish me a good trip. Had a great time! Much fun was had.

Re: Final Fantasy Insight: The secret project/database revealed! - Final Fantasy Insight

TonyKM — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 08:42:50 -0000

Nice to know you approve. The hardest part is trying to balance how to write the "biography" in such a way that I don't need to update it (no references to current ages, etc...) haha.

Re: The Voice Actors of the Kingdom Hearts Series

TonyKM — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 02:33:54 -0000

Its nice to see someone replying with such depth thank you, and I totally appreciate your opposing views. Life would be boring if everyone thought the same way as you.

Yes, I would totally love to see Cree Summer in a Kingdom Hearts game, very talented woman. Although I still giggle at her performance as Lenne in Final Fantasy X-2, she sounds a bit like a man! Haha.

Re: Discussion: The calm before the storm – Lightning’s journey and the third entry to the Final Fantasy XIII saga

TonyKM — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:23:48 -0000

Personally I can't wait. I enjoyed XIII, and though I think XIII-2 had a few issues (mostly from a graphical lazy point - see weapons), I think it did a fantastic job at trying to make XIII more appealing to gamers as a whole. Characters were more engaging (admittedly a bias towards Laura Bailey might have something to do with it), and Caius was actually interesting and layered in his personality and motives - despite the over-the-top David Bowieness.

Plotwise I don't have issues, especially since I originally didn't expect much from XIII, since lets face it, games directed by Toriyama tend to have a shallow approach, so I ended up positively surprised when the game's world and myth turned out much deeper than anticipated. XIII-2 did an amazing job at balancing out the much slower pacing of XIII, so it never felt like I waited too long to get plot, and I actively sought to play longer "just to see a bit more". And I'll probably go against everyone else by saying I *liked* the ending, I've read books, watched movies, hell even played games where they may as well have had an "INSERT SEQUEL HERE" sign on them, the only difference is that Square had the balls to physically label it, which isn't exactly the first time they've done so (Xenogears anybody?).

Basically, since this comment is ridiculously long now, I loved XIII, thought XIII-2 did a fantastic job at redressing any issues that I might have had with the original (hell it made me like Hope, who I wanted to murder only 2 years ago), and as much as I want Versus XIII, the HD X (please Square, I so desperately have urges to play it don't make me dust off my PS2 only to play it again twice in the same year), and I would kill for a localised Type-0, I definitely won't complain at having a XIII-3 to tide me over in the meantime. Gimme more Lightning, gimme more Serah, hell give me a Noel/Snow/Hope bromance combo, I'll take anything Square has to offer.

Re: Final Fantasy X HD: Final Fantasy X-2 coming with the package? - Final Fantasy Insight

TonyKM — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:42:29 -0000

I can't express how happy I am about this news. I know Final Fantasy X-2 has its detractors, but I can't deny I loved it (though I will admit it had faults). Being able to play International in English is something I can't wait to do, I had a blast on the Japanese one.

Small note, I didn't want to get too trivia-ey on the news, so I thought I'd keep it to the comment. Yadonoki Tower is actually an AlBhed name, with Yadonoki being AlBhed-Japanese for "Maboroshi", meaning "phantasm" or "illusion". A little known fact is that Yadonoki Tower was given an actual English name on some promotional art cards, where it was called the Abrasanym Tower, with the name once again being AlBhed, this time in English, for "Ephemeral". Ephemeral is the name given to the manikins of the Final Fantasy X characters in the Dissidia games, namely Ephemeral Vision, Ephemeral Phantom, and Ephemeral Summoner for Tidus, Jecht, and Yuna, respectively.

If the game comes out in English, it'll be interesting seeing whether or not they call it Abrasanym Tower. I hope they do, it'll be a nice bit of continuity.

Re: Lightning Returns: Some Dead Dunes V-Jump scans - Final Fantasy Insight

TonyKM — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:03:04 -0000

It's funny, I chose to relaunch the site at this time of year because the first few months of each year are normally slow on Square Enix news, just goes to show doesn't it? Loving it, even though I was hoping to have more time to spend on content before it happened haha.

Re: Final Fantasy V coming to smartphones with enhanced 2D graphics

TonyKM — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:02:13 -0000

I can't speak for all of them, but based on the Lenna portrait in the scan, it looks like they're just digitising some of Amano's artworks. Looks bloody gorgeous though. Not a huge fan of the "enhanced sprites", Bartz in particular doesn't look like Bartz.

Re: Final Fantasy V: iOS port coming this month - Final Fantasy Insight

TonyKM — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:58:51 -0000

As you can probably gather I'm not a huge fan of the sprite redesigns. The portraits are gorgeous though, as are the text boxes. I won't post the pictures in the news post as Famitsu have watermarked them (as always), but there's a few high quality screenshots of the game available over here:

http://app.famitsu.com/2013...

I wish the sprites didn't look like that :/

Re: Final Fantasy X|X-2 HD Remaster announcement trailer

TonyKM — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 13:55:24 -0000

Anyone else find it odd that the end bit promoting Final Fantasy X-2 used Koda Kumi's real Emotion rather than Jade's? Jade's was used in the International release after all.

Re: Final Fantasy X|X-2 HD Remaster announcement trailer

TonyKM — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:41:50 -0000

Yeah, Jade has a really nice clear quality to her voice, present in across most of her songs. I can't really see a reason why they wouldn't use her version in the game proper. So long as they don't decide to give us the versions Koda Kumi sang in English I'll be happy.

Re: Final Fantasy X|X-2 HD Remaster announcement trailer

TonyKM — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:11:53 -0000

That would actually be awesome if they also added the videos to the theater, real Emotion not so much, but it would be fun for them to have the original 1000 Words cutscene, since it was different in the world wide/International releases.

Re: Square Enix restructure, CEO Yoichi Wada steps down - Final Fantasy Insight

TonyKM — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:27:17 -0000

I honestly can't decide whether or not Yoichi Wada is a good or bad thing. I've not exactly made it a secret over the years that I've not agreed with his decisions and statements, and in particular I'm always reminded of his fairly childish reaction to the difference in sales of Final Fantasy III and Final Fantasy IV on the Nintendo DS, seemingly not understanding that the former had only ever been released once, while the latter had already been re-released multiple times.

There's also been his insistence on continuously porting and re-releasing titles as a method of making a quick buck.

Its hard to not think that this could be a step in the right direction for Square Enix.

Re: Yoichi Wada resigns as CEO of Square Enix

TonyKM — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:34:47 -0000

Although I agree a lot with what you've said there, I think Wada had a bit too much passion in his own decisions though, even when they were terrible. I always remember his quite frankly childish reaction to the lackluster sales of Final Fantasy IV in comparison to III on the DS, without ever seeming to take into account that where III had never seen a re-release, IV had seen at least 5 releases (possibly 6).

It was like how he demanded that game developers shouldn't try to develop new and original styles of games, in favour of sticking to tried and tested ideas, following the result of such daring escapades as The World Ends With You.

I'm not saying he's all bad, but I personally think he's done a lot more bad than good over the years. That said, he was a nice constant and any kind of change can be particularly worrying.

Re: Yoichi Wada resigns as CEO of Square Enix

TonyKM — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:13:44 -0000

Switching him out after the settling down of the Square and Enix merger is actually probably the best retrospective idea that could have been uttered.

My main issue with Wada has been his insistence on ports and mobile phone platforming since the merger, I know he thinks console gaming belongs in the past, and although I don't have an issue with mobile phone gaming as such it's been his approach to it as a business model.

That said, the upcoming year, as you've said, is exciting. Makes me wonder how much of it was down to him though. Considering it was mentioned that Matsuda was already prepping to take over in June, I can't help but try and guess how long this switchover has been in the pipeline, in the last 6 weeks or so there's been a huge switcharound in Square Enix marketing - the dropping of the mobile phone social gaming model, announcing both KH HD and FFX HD for western releases, finally giving the world Final Mix and International? These are all things fans have been demanding for years and are without doubt a massive boon to Square Enix's PR. The understandable ties to the money it'll make seem like the perfect kind of thinking coming from a man who was the company's chief financial officer, much more so than the decisions we've seen coming from Wada over the years.

Re: Square Enix opens mysterious 10th anniversary teaser site

TonyKM — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:31:12 -0000

Although I have to see it certainly is an interesting piece I doubt its real, considering its only about 45 seconds long it repeats way too much. Plus I doubt Lumina's going to have something so upbeat sounding, doesn't seem to fit (give it to Rikku! haha). I imagine they'll go for something a bit more melancholic for Lumina.

Re: Final Fantasty Tactics S announced for smartphones - Final Fantasy Insight

TonyKM — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:22:04 -0000

I can't wait to hear more about this game, if it plays like the other FFT games I'll be really pleased. If it's just a cheap cash in I won't be happy, but I want to stay open minded until then.

That said, anyone else notice the fact that this logo is designed in a very similar style to Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions' one? That makes me happy, something about that logo always appealed to me.

Re: Ehren’s 3FP: Final Fantasy III ~Fin~

TonyKM — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:23:38 -0000

"Met with the Gulgans and climbed the Owen Tower to meet Desch’s fate" the way that was written reminds me of the storyline trophy descriptions for Final Fantasy XIII. This is not a bad thing, I like XIII <3

Re: Ehren’s 3FP: Final Fantasy III ~Fin~

TonyKM — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:28:57 -0000

That is true, it was just the wording for it, like I say though, no disapproval on this end. Good to see the progress you're making though, I'm currently doing a similar thing, but playing through all the Metal Gear games, in chronological order haha.

Re: Ehren’s 3FP: Final Fantasy III ~Fin~

TonyKM — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:06:39 -0000

Haha, I usually hold off on levelling until after the class switch for Cecil, although saying that I do usually spend time levelling up Palom and Porom before Mt Ordeals, just because they're so underleveled when joining. Mt Ordeals is sort of my go-to training, twins beforehand, Cecil after.