{"id":17514,"date":"2018-03-02T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T00:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=17514"},"modified":"2018-02-19T02:51:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T02:51:21","slug":"the-fighters-of-dissidia-final-fantasy-nt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/02\/the-fighters-of-dissidia-final-fantasy-nt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fighters of Dissidia Final Fantasy NT"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Dissidia Final Fantasy was one of my favorite games on the PSP.\u00a0 It was a fighting game featuring characters from the popular RPG series, and there were two of them on Sony\u2019s first handheld.\u00a0 I always thought it would be neat if there was a version of Dissidia on one of the big consoles, so I was excited when Square-Enix announced Dissidia Final Fantasy NT for the PS4.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been playing it recently, so here\u2019s a blog about the characters and stages you can find in it, as well as some brief impressions of the game as a whole.<\/p>\n

The core gameplay is the same, and it\u2019s pretty unique as a 3-D fighter.\u00a0 You can run around 3-D areas and even do mid air dashes and run up walls!\u00a0 It kind of reminds me of a cross between Kingdom Hearts and one of those 3-D Dragon Ball Z fighting games.\u00a0 You have two kinds of attacks and health bars.\u00a0 Bravery attacks will take away points and add them to yours.\u00a0 Using HP attacks on opponents will take off the same amount of HP that your Bravery points total, so you must figure out which is the best time to use which attack.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s where most of the similarities end.\u00a0 In the PSP games, the fights were one-on-one, but in the PS4 game, it\u2019s three on three.\u00a0 I had enough trouble keeping up with just one character on the PSP.\u00a0 I just can\u2019t keep up with three at the same time!\u00a0 You have a much more limited amount of summon spells as well. \u00a0In the PSP game there were a lot more (you could even summon Ultros for crying out loud).\u00a0 There are also a lack of gameplay modes on the PS4 version.\u00a0\u00a0 You have three online modes, two offline modes, and a story mode.\u00a0 On the PSP, the story mode was really robust, and the second game even had an overworld!\u00a0 But in this one, you have to play other modes to earn points to unlock bits of the story, and so far I\u2019ve only unlocked the rights to view five cutscenes.\u00a0 Ugh!<\/p>\n

Another thing I liked better about the PSP games is that Square knew that certain fans might not be as good at fighting games, so they designed the game accordingly.\u00a0 I was able to beat the PSP games, but I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll ever beat the PS4 version.\u00a0 It\u2019s just so hard and not very rewarding.\u00a0 Team Ninja helped make the PS4 game.\u00a0 Leave it to them to ruin another one of my favorite game franchises (the other being Metroid).<\/p>\n

I know that Dissidia Final Fantasy NT was originally an arcade game in Japan.\u00a0 In fact, one of the reasons why I ordered this game from Amazon was so I could enter to win one of the arcade cabinets!\u00a0 But the contest was so convoluted I\u2019m not sure I even entered it right.\u00a0 That\u2019s one bad thing about the Internet is that entering contests on it is such a chore.\u00a0 Whatever happened to the days where you could just send in cereal box tops?\u00a0 Anyway, normally I\u2019d be all for bringing the arcade experience home.\u00a0 Heck, I\u2019d even like to have a Mario Kart Arcade GP collection on the Switch, and those games aren\u2019t as good as Mario Kart 8.\u00a0 But in the case with Dissidia NT, I think it probably should\u2019ve just stayed in the arcade.<\/p>\n

The game isn\u2019t complete garbage, though.\u00a0 The graphics are great and it\u2019s still somewhat entertaining.\u00a0 It\u2019ll get a spot on my Game of the Year award, but nothing higher than Runner Up status.\u00a0 Anyhow, let\u2019s take a look at the characters and stages in the game.<\/p>\n

FF1<\/strong><\/p>\n

So I think we\u2019ll divide things up by the games.\u00a0 Most of the main games in the series are represented by one main hero and one main villain.\u00a0 The hero for the first game is the Warrior of Light.\u00a0 I guess they made him look like how he looks on the box art, because I don\u2019t ever remember him having a helmet with long horns in the game.\u00a0 I remember the Fighter from the game having red hair and clothes.\u00a0 But what\u2019s cool is one of his alternate outfits does have him with red hair and clothes!\u00a0 The bad guy here is Garland, an evil knight who kidnaps the princess at the start of the game and ends up being Chaos in a time loop.\u00a0 The stage for this game is Cornelia, a big overworld type area with lots of grass and trees.\u00a0 Very Breath of the Wild-ish.<\/p>\n

FF2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Firion is the hero from this game.\u00a0 He uses all types of weapons to attack, so he\u2019s a pretty good character for beginners to start with in Dissidia.\u00a0 The bad guy here is the Emperor.\u00a0 He uses lots of traps to attack, making him tricky to use but also tough to beat.\u00a0 Their stage is Pandemonium, which is pretty much just like the stage in the PSP games.\u00a0 Just a big purpley maze area.<\/p>\n

FF3<\/strong><\/p>\n

The main hero here is the Onion Kid.\u00a0 Since he can take on class jobs like in the game, he can turn into a ninja or white mage and whatnot.\u00a0 And Cloud of Darkness has to be the most underdressed female villain ever.\u00a0 Whew-wee!\u00a0 Their stage is the Floating Continent, which is where you start out in the main game, I believe.<\/p>\n

FF4<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was really the game that got me into 16-bit RPGs.\u00a0 Depending on if he attacks on the ground or in the air, Cecil can turn into his Dark Knight or Paladin forms.\u00a0 Kain was added to the PSP Dissidia sequel, and I\u2019m glad they put him in here, too.\u00a0 When I first played the original game, I thought Kain was really cool looking and I liked his Jump attack, which he can do here, too.\u00a0 The bad guy Golbez is basically the series\u2019 Darth Vader (Cecil, I am your\u2026brother), but he does have a Dark Dragon that tags along like in one of the iconic battles from the game.\u00a0 Their stage is the Lunar Surface, which is pretty barren although I do like the Lunar Whale resting in the background.<\/p>\n

FF5<\/strong><\/p>\n

To me, nothing really distinguished Bartz from any of the other heroes.\u00a0 Same goes with the villain Exdeath.\u00a0 Their stage, the Interdimensional Rift, is equally generic, just a crystally world with a few crystal trees here and there.<\/p>\n

FF6<\/strong><\/p>\n

So those of you who read my blogs and\/or know me, you may also know that Final Fantasy 6 is not only my favorite FF game, but it\u2019s also one of my top five favorite games of all time period!\u00a0 So naturally my favorite FF character and villain come from this game, too.\u00a0 Yeah my favorite FF character is actually Terra, who is playable in Dissidia.\u00a0 I know what you\u2019re thinking.\u00a0 You\u2019re surprised my favorite FF character isn\u2019t a Chocobo or Moogle.\u00a0 While I do like those characters a lot, Terra is still my favorite.\u00a0 She\u2019s not overly fanservice-y and she can turn into a pink cotton candy monster!\u00a0 In Dissidia she uses mostly magic attacks, so she\u2019s a little harder to use.\u00a0 I do like how Team Ninja gave her a different body type for her pink esper form.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t just slap a pink texture over her regular body.\u00a0 They gave her more muscle in that form.\u00a0 Anyway, Kefka is my favorite FF villain (even if he is a bit of a Joker ripoff).\u00a0 He actually wins in the game and you have to pick up the pieces afterwards.\u00a0 How many villains get to do that?\u00a0 And that laugh, so memorable.\u00a0 Like Terra, he uses a lot of long distance magic attacks so he\u2019s also tricky to use.\u00a0 The stage from FF6 is the Narshe Outskirts and it\u2019s so cool!\u00a0 It starts out as a snowy field with the mining town of Narshe in the background.\u00a0 But at some point during the fight, a flash of light will envelope the whole area and it turns all barren, like how it does in the World of Ruin!\u00a0 It\u2019s way cooler than the past FF6 Dissidia stage, which was the Magitek Lab, and that was a pretty darn neat stage to start out with!<\/p>\n

FF7<\/strong><\/p>\n

While I appreciated FF7 for being different, ultimately I didn\u2019t like it as much as FF6 (or 4 or 9, etc.).\u00a0 Cloud of course is represented here.\u00a0 He\u2019s been in a lot of fighting games, from this one to Ehrgeiz and even Smash Bros.!\u00a0 At first I thought Cloud was cool with that spiky hair and big ol\u2019 sword.\u00a0 But once I played the game, I learned that Cloud was an annoying crybaby.\u00a0 Since I ordered the Dissidia game from Amazon, I got a bonus which was an in-game code to unlock an alternate weapon for Cloud: a baseball bat.\u00a0 I wonder when they\u2019ll make Final Fantasy Baseball? (I\u2019d play it)\u00a0 And Sephiroth just pales in comparison to the villain who came before him (Kefka).\u00a0 Plus his theme song, One Winged Angel, is way overrated.\u00a0 It was cool when it played during his battle, but after listening to two orchestrated versions of his song at FF concerts I\u2019ve been to, I\u2019m downright sick of it.\u00a0\u00a0 The FF7 stage is Midgar, and while it\u2019s neat to see the city in the background, the stage itself just looks like a warehouse dock.\u00a0 It\u2019s too bad that Tifa isn\u2019t playable in this Dissidia game.\u00a0 She was playable in the PSP Dissidia sequel.\u00a0 I like Tifa not because of her fanservice qualities, but because she was a good fighter and actually nice to the other characters.\u00a0 And she was cool in Dissidia, too.\u00a0 But if there is one character that is a most likely candidate for DLC, it would be her.<\/p>\n

FF8<\/strong><\/p>\n

While I appreciated FF7\u2019s differences, the things I didn\u2019t like about it were what they focused on in FF8.\u00a0 So that ended up being the first FF game I skipped out on!\u00a0 Squall is a grumpy guy with a gunsword, and the lady villain Ultimecia uses time-based attacks.\u00a0 The FF8 stage is the most unimaginative thing ever.\u00a0 It\u2019s called \u201cThe Promised Meadows\u201d and it\u2019s just a small flat patch of land, and at some point it\u2019ll change to have lots of flowers on it.\u00a0 I imagine that may mean something to FF8 fans.\u00a0 It\u2019s the Final Destination of Dissidia to me.<\/p>\n

FF9<\/strong><\/p>\n

I really liked FF9.\u00a0 It\u2019s what 7 and 8 should\u2019ve been, at least to me.\u00a0 As a thief, Zidane has lots of quick attacks, and he has a tail.\u00a0 One problem with FF9 is that they rely too much on references to other games, and sometimes things suffer because of that.\u00a0 Case in point, the villain Kuja, playable here, is just a watered down combination of Kefka and Sephiroth.\u00a0 The FF9 stage for Dissidia is super cool, though.\u00a0 It\u2019s the castle town Alexandria and looks just as I remember it form the main game.\u00a0 There are lots of bazaar tents to jump on and places to hide.\u00a0 And when it turns night, you can see fireworks and theater ships in the sky!<\/p>\n

FF10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tidus is the hero from that game and played a fictional sport called Blitzball, so he uses a lot of Blitzball attacks in this game.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if Jecht is the main villain, but from what I\u2019ve played of other Dissidia games, he\u2019s Tidus\u2019 dad and also supposedly the devil or something.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know, I never played FF10.\u00a0 My brother Jeff says I wouldn\u2019t like it, even though one of the characters uses plush toys of classic FF monsters as attacks!\u00a0 The FF10 stage is Besald Island, which is a tropical beach area.\u00a0 So if you want your Dissidia fighters to look like they\u2019re on vacation while battling, take them here!\u00a0 Oh yeah, one missing character who was in the Dissidia sequel was also in FF10. \u00a0Yuna had cool attacks where she would summon different monsters.\u00a0 She\u2019d probably be a good fit for DLC, too.<\/p>\n

FF11<\/strong><\/p>\n

I never really felt compelled to try the online FF games.\u00a0 Shantotto was originally a secret character in the first Dissidia.\u00a0 She\u2019s a short smug little elf dwarf like girl who speaks in rhymes.\u00a0 I hate the FF11 stage, called Stellar Fulcrum.\u00a0 It has these transparent walls and you can see what\u2019s on the other side but you can\u2019t walk through them and your attacks won\u2019t go through either.\u00a0 But you can still see people on the other side and it messed me up a lot.<\/p>\n

FF12<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wonder if I should try FF12 sometime?\u00a0 I probably won\u2019t, but I sometimes wonder that.\u00a0 Vaan looks rather generic, but I think there was another FF12 character who was a lady with bunny rabbit ears, and I think she would be neat to have in Dissidia.\u00a0 Maybe.\u00a0 The FF12 stage, the Royal City of Rabanastre, looks like an outside castle courtyard.\u00a0 I think it was also in one of the PSP games, but here it looks like it has better graphics.<\/p>\n

FF13<\/strong><\/p>\n

The only thing I know about Lightning is that she has pink hair.\u00a0 Seems kind of grumpy, too.\u00a0 The FF13 stage, Eden, looks all high tech, like the docking station on some spaceship.\u00a0 But it\u2019s just flat and open and not very interesting otherwise.<\/p>\n

FF14<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another online game.\u00a0 Y\u2019Shtola looks like a more grown up catgirl version of Shantotto, and the stage, Porta Decumala, looks like another generic flat sci-fi looking area.\u00a0 Although flames come out of the walls at one point.<\/p>\n

FF15<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m surprised there isn\u2019t more representation of this game in the new Dissidia, since FF15 just came out last year.\u00a0 The lone character here is Noctis, and he doesn\u2019t even get his own stage.<\/p>\n

FF Tactics<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Final Fantasy Tactics first came out, I was still a huge Square fan and bought anything they made, so I got this game, too.\u00a0 The thing I learned from playing FFT is that I don\u2019t like tactical strategy games.\u00a0 The character here is Ramza, who looks like a girl but has a boy\u2019s voice.<\/p>\n

FF Type-0<\/strong><\/p>\n

And so it\u2019s come to this.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never actually even heard of this game.\u00a0 I think now I know less about the series than I know more.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I can call myself a Final Fantasy fan anymore.\u00a0 If I went back in time and told my high school self that I wouldn\u2019t be interested in new FF games, my high school self wouldn\u2019t believe me.\u00a0 I guess I can still call myself a classic FF fan.\u00a0 Anyway, the character from this game is Ace, who throws playing cards as his attacks.\u00a0 I guess his name makes sense now.\u00a0 But why couldn\u2019t they have just used Setzer from FF6?\u00a0 He WAS in Kingdom Hearts 2!<\/p>\n

One more character I wanted to talk about in Dissidia NT is a talking moogle.\u00a0 You can\u2019t play as him, but he\u2019ll guide you through the tutorial and you can even choose to have him give you pointers during regular battles.\u00a0 Which is pretty handy since the fights can be very chaotic.\u00a0 But man his voice is SO ANNOYING!\u00a0 So much so that I\u2019m tempted to turn off that feature in the game!<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s pretty much all the characters and stages in Dissidia Final Fantasy NT.\u00a0 While the game has some good parts, it was ultimately a disappointment for me.\u00a0 In the comments section, let me know what you think of the game, and who your favorite FF characters are.\u00a0 Later!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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