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PSP News by Robert Purchese
Square Enix has finally given Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII a European release date of "spring".
For those unsure, this is the action RPG that caused PSP sales to multiply six times over in Japan last September.
Set before the renowned Final Fantasy VII, you play as Zack who works for SOLDIER, a military group run by an electric company busy at work on building a metropolis.
The game begins when you, Angeal and Sephiroth are sent to investigate the whereabouts of some missing SOLDIER members. Complications ensue.
Crisis Core was among the first games announced for PSP, and its lengthy development means gorgeous visuals and cutscenes to put others to shame.
But its big selling point, the real-time and fast-paced battle system, is yet to be proven. Perhaps we needed more time with it, but when we saw it last May it felt fiddly and unconvincing.
Could be wrong though - Japanese magazine Famitsu gave it a score of 35/40.
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SpigleyMcCheese
16/01/08 @ 13:34
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Did they give a year along with that "Spring"? Not that it's particularly important - Advent Children was enough to warn me off Square Enix's "let's milk our most successful franchise" march.
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Yeah, Advent Children deserves to die. Why have they made Cloud a depressed emo for the compilation stuff? If they remake the original and retcon him to be the absolute self harmer he's made out to be in AC I'm going to cry.
Still, at least Zack seems normal in this. When is the US release date again? |
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mandeep100
16/01/08 @ 14:26
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ive got this on japanese import it is sweet, graphics are awesome, the cutscenes are something else and look better than the advent children film because of the psps small screen, fighting system is a bit button bashy,
I dont know much japanese but i am easily progressing through the game with just hacking at enemies and barely using any magic or healing although if you have to the menu layout is fairly simple in game and and on the pause menus
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alimokrane
16/01/08 @ 15:15
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What a lousy Article. Thank you very much eurogamer for getting my freaking hopes up ... since when is Spring a date ..pffffft
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CitizenGeek
16/01/08 @ 21:38
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I usually don't import games from the US, but I'll make an exception for Crisis Core :)
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SpigleyMcCheese
16-Jan-08 13:34:42 Did they give a year along with that "Spring"? Not that it's particularly important - Advent Children was enough to warn me off Square Enix's "let's milk our most successful franchise" march. Psiloc 16-Jan-08 13:55:08 Yeah, Advent Children deserves to die. Why have they made Cloud a depressed emo for the compilation stuff? If they remake the original and retcon him to be the absolute self harmer he's made out to be in AC I'm going to cry. Still, at least Zack seems normal in this. When is the US release date again? Um... Did you even play FFVII. Like. At all?
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SpigleyMcCheese
17/01/08 @ 09:57
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Um... Did you even play FFVII. Like. At all?
Yes. Did you play Dirge of Cerberus? Watch Advent Children? See how much Square seem to be bastardising one of the greatest games in history for the sake of a higher revenue? None of these new "Compilation" games hold a candle to the original, so I'm not too enthused about them. |
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I tried a bit of that Japanese version too and the production values are indeed through the roof. The cutscenes look fantastic and the in-game graphics are also of a very high quality. But that is to be expected, of course. The combat is quick-paced and slick, and as far as I could see it was rather easy to dispatch of the early enemies in the game with stylish and dangerouus looking moves, although I have only given it a little time because I see no point in playing a FF game without understanding the story (and I don't know any Japanese, sadly).
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"Um... Did you even play FFVII. Like. At all?"
Only about 50 times :-) He wasn't depressed during the course of the game. I guess he was when he was a Shinra guard but it hardly makes sense to apply that to a film that takes place 7 years after that. During the present-day course of the game he goes from cold to determined fairly rapidly. He even cracks a joke or two. Just because he mourned Aeris for a few minutes doesn't make him an emo. |
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