Yeaaa!

The goodies for volume 1. Am I right to assume it would be the baddies in volume 2? Because that would mean there would be a KUJA one… Really hope so, because I’ve been waiting for years for a Kuja figurine. They better not mess up the face…

Or actually, the next volume might be the other half of the goodies, I don’t really care. But there must be one with Kuja in it. THERE MUST BE!!!

Here are the goodies…

Cloud Strife

I don’t have much to say for this, because there are like countless types of Cloud figurines in existence already. But this one looks like he’s got a good face.

Squall Leonhart

I love the Squall one! He looks super duper cool here. Cool pose, cool everything…

Tidus (seriously, what’s his last name? Hope it’s revealed in Dissidia)

Tidus looks pretty damn cool too. But umm… what’s that weird thing at his right arm? Is it part of the sleeve!? I can’t tell in this picture…

Warrior of Light

Warrior of light, aka Mister super armoured. The face looks quite bad I think. Too much effort put into the armour maybe?

Zidane tribal

Oooh yeah Zidane! I’m not too happy with the face, but everything else seems good. And plus, if there’s a Zidane figurine, there should be a Kuja one too right? Right? Argh can Square-enix don’t do this to me! I can’t stand the suspense!

Oh for a bit of fun fact, you can summon PuPu in Final Fantasy Dissidia! Hahaha. That’d be cute.

Just check out FFWikia. Here’s the full link too. http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Dissidia_Final_Fantasy

Here’s the link to the Square-enix online catalog as well. Full link here. http://www.square-enix-shop.com/catalog/index.html

This is the whole bunch of them from Dissidia. Yayyyyy!

It’s coming, it’s coming… What’s coming? My Dissidia PSP of course! Coming, coming…

I just saw this video on Gametrailers about the upcoming PSP Video game “Dissidia: Final Fantasy” and this is my reaction.

Dissidia -Final Fantasy- is a video game currently in development by Square Enix for the PlayStation Portable as part of the campaign of the Final Fantasy series 20th anniversary. The game will be released in North America under the name Final Fantasy: Dissidia. Dissidia’s genre has been described as “dramatic progressive action” featuring a 3-D graphical enviroment with the ability to level up characters like in RPGs. The game will reunite characters from other installments of the Final Fantasy series. Chaos will make an appearance as the god of discord, while a new character, Cosmos, will appear as the goddess of harmony. Long-time series collaborator Tetsuya Nomura is in charge of the characters’ design, although many of these are based on their original design by Yoshitaka Amano.

for sheer looks and celluloid magnetism, who could resist these gorgeous babes and hunks? i know they’re excellent fighters and all, but to me it hardly mattered at all. as soon as i saw them, i knew was gonna love the premise regardless of how strange or outlandish it would be.

hey, this is the final fantasy universe remember? those guys over at square enix and their affiliates couldn’t have just churned out and recycled those many multimedia versions of this very popular and highly profitable franchise if they had no serviceable backstories to fall back on.

and me being a dyed-in-the-wool fan of fantasy/sci-fi books and movies and all, it wasn’t much of a stretch.

suddenly it wasn’t just about the games anymore. i realized that i had began to care more about what happened to cloud strife, aeris gainsborough, tifa lockheart, et al. 

then FF VIII came barging in, with much improved graphics to boot. i had my gutstrings torn to shreds by the struggle that squall leonhart and rinoa heartilly and their little band of fighters went through (who naturally managed to look great while doing it, too).

same with tidus and yuna in FF X. i felt somewhat robbed when the ending didn’t even bring the kind of closure i craved. the producers sort of rectified this with FF X-2, but there were so many changes that sometimes it feels like you’ve wandered into a different story.

and then there was advent children. i think that graphics-wise it’s the best animated film i’ve seen so far. it was nice to see cloud strife again, although i still grieve about aeris’s fate. tifa looked great and vincent valentine was cool (this guy wears his inner torment like an impenetrable cloak). as usual, i hated it when the ending credits began to roll. i wanted the story to go on and on until i was ready to move on…

oh well, at least i have their images indelibly printed in my caffeine-addled brain.