Project X Zone details
- Support Attack and Cross Hit systems detailed
- Support Attacks are special attacks from your fellow party members
- if another unit is near your unit (around 8 spaces), you'll be able to trigger a Support Attack
- the support unit will perform a followup attack
- this can only be used once in battle
- Cross Hit is related to Support Attacks
- if the main unit and support unit strike the enemy simultaneously, you'll trigger a Cross Hit
- this freezes the enemy and allows for easier combos
Nomura on remakes vs. new titles
- understands there's a lot of desire for a Final Fantasy VII remake
- focus is on new titles they hope will surpass FFVII
- he personally believes Yoshinori Kitase is the true successor to the FF series
Tales of series talk from producer Hideo Baba
- catch phrase for the new game is "Are you prepared to destroy the world for the girl?"
- this ties into both the story and gameplay systems
- this game will have a more modern theme
- consider this the team's challenge to take the Tales series to the next stage
- Namco Bandai has other Tales games in development besides this entry
- when Tales Studio closed, that studio's staff moved into Namco Bandai
- now members of the Tales team can move to the Idolmaster team, and members of the Soul Calibur and Taiko Drum Master teams come to the Tales team
Link, Link, Link
- Support Attack and Cross Hit systems detailed
- Support Attacks are special attacks from your fellow party members
- if another unit is near your unit (around 8 spaces), you'll be able to trigger a Support Attack
- the support unit will perform a followup attack
- this can only be used once in battle
- Cross Hit is related to Support Attacks
- if the main unit and support unit strike the enemy simultaneously, you'll trigger a Cross Hit
- this freezes the enemy and allows for easier combos
Nomura on remakes vs. new titles
- understands there's a lot of desire for a Final Fantasy VII remake
- focus is on new titles they hope will surpass FFVII
- he personally believes Yoshinori Kitase is the true successor to the FF series
Tales of series talk from producer Hideo Baba
- catch phrase for the new game is "Are you prepared to destroy the world for the girl?"
- this ties into both the story and gameplay systems
- this game will have a more modern theme
- consider this the team's challenge to take the Tales series to the next stage
- Namco Bandai has other Tales games in development besides this entry
- when Tales Studio closed, that studio's staff moved into Namco Bandai
- now members of the Tales team can move to the Idolmaster team, and members of the Soul Calibur and Taiko Drum Master teams come to the Tales team
Link, Link, Link
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Don't care for Final Fantasy.
But the theme for the next Tales game? Destroying the world for a girl? Sounds horridly romantic. I like it. @_@
Huh, might as well be called "Tales of ***holes".
That sounds more like a porno about guys who probably wouldn't destroy the world for a girl.
Isn't that tagline how most of the Tales stories go?
Some shy, meek girl implied to be the love interest of the hero tangled up in some end of the world plot?
Nomura has a point, while remakes are fun to do every once in a while, if you just rehash old stuff no one will pay attention to your new stuff.
I don't think an FFVII remake would work out well anyway. A lot of fanboys kind of gloss over how incredibly weird the original was, with all that gay brothel buisiness, characters that don't really fit in with the main cast, some of the strangest and most nonsensical enemies ever, and some pretty deviating gameplay segments like the snowboarding and submarine battle. If you were to compare the series to the life cycle of a human, FFVII would be the "awkward puberty" stage. Besides, the very same people clamoring for it the most would probably just complain about every minor change (or in some cases, not changing things they didn't like) and declare it to be a quick cash grab.
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