Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy/Curtain Call

[Celes Chere]

haters gonna hate

 

[Glaurung]

As much as I'd squeal like the mad fangirl I am with a chibi Lightning... eeeeeh, no, I won't buy a 3DS :/

 

[Elisa Maza]

Or, correctly, Theatrhythm Final Fantasy.

New Final Fantasy game!!!

Here's an article - again thanks to Anoop at AndriaSang.com - regarding it:

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/07/06/final_fantasy_rhythm/

Square Enix has a new Final Fantasy game on the way for 3DS, but it's not quite the RPG we're used to. The new game is titled Theatrhythm Final Fantasy. Yes, this is the Final Fantasy themed rhythm game we've all been waiting for.
Revealed in this week's Jump, Theatrhythm Final Fantasy is a "Theater Rhythm Action" game. The game has field scenes set in dungeons and towns, and battle scenes that resemble the side-view battles of older Final Fantasy games. However, everything is played like a rhythm game, where you tap the screen in accordance with prompts.
Needless to say, the game's music is pulled from past Final Fantasy games. Characters, including the likes of Lightning and Cloud, are also in the game, only they're shown in cute "chibi" style form, resembling the avatars from the mobile Kingdom Hearts game.
There seems to be somewhat of a story to the game. Jump says that the classic Final Fantasy characters are fighting to return light to the crystal.
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy is currently without a final release date.

Lightning in chibi-form!

I really have no thoughts about that...

And Lightning is not a "classic" FF character. Quit whoring the bitch, SE.

 

[Zee]

>lightning not even in the screenshot
>half a page bitching about her
>in a rhythm game

guys i seriously
what
really

honestly the whoring of cloud and sephiroth is far more tired and irritating

The game has field scenes set in dungeons and towns, and battle scenes that resemble the side-view battles of older Final Fantasy games. However, everything is played like a rhythm game, where you tap the screen in accordance with prompts.

Sounds cute tbh I don't get the hate.

 

[Alessa Gillespie]

is this an ff dance game

i am up for an ff dance game

 

[Celes Chere]

The chibis are cute, I will admit that.

and all character whoring is annoying. I wish they wouldn't focus on one character (or group of the same characters).

 

[Alex Strife]

I just... uhm... I mean... what the...?!

While the idea is... interesting, it just doesn't attract me enough, even less when it's on the 3DS, you know.

One of these games I THINK I won't care about... but I'll still look videos on youtube when it comes out!

 

[Arianna]

Only when one of them runs out of punching gifs first.

Also, a screencap of what appears to be next week's Famitsu:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/9/lib399584.jpg/

...It might be a new Dissidia game in disguise? *shrugs*

Well, right there is chibi!Cosmos and chibi!Chaos.

 

[Kobato]

and all character whoring is annoying. I wish they wouldn't focus on one character (or group of the same characters).

I'm surprised that they haven't changed the company name to Lighting Enix .

 

[Terrafig]

Will someone explain why working on this is more important than putting out Versus?

It can't possibly make more money...

Right?

 

[Alessa Gillespie]

Will someone explain why working on this is more important than putting out Versus?

It can't possibly make more money...

Right?

more like it's easier to make so why the hell work on the harder game

 

[Tennyo]

Will someone explain why working on this is more important than putting out Versus?

It can't possibly make more money...

Right?

Assuming that everyone working on Versus completely dropped it just to do this.

(I didn't read the articles)

 

[ForceStealer]

I do kinda doubt it's the same team.

 

[Zee]

is this an ff dance game

i am up for an ff dance game

final fantasy: space channel 5
yup all of my money

I love rhythm games, though, they're so much fun! And the FF series always had great music, so it sounds like it could work. And the concept is refreshingly... unpretentious, I guess. I'm tired of SE being up their own ass about their storylines and ~*~GRAPHICS~*~ (oh god the stupid text in the Versus trailer turns me off every time I see it) I just want to go back to dungeons and fun.

I'm surprised that they haven't changed the company name to Lighting Enix .

Oh come on, her only huge side story role was Dissidia. Her being one of many characters in a side scroller is not the end of the world.

 

[Alessa Gillespie]

I'm surprised that they haven't changed the company name to Lighting Enix .

yeah cause i mean they never put other characters from recent games into other games like cloud

lord knows he was never mentioned in parasite eve 2 or ff9 or final fantasy tactics or kingdom hearts 1 and 2 or dissidia 1 and 2 or appeared in like 3 sequels and prequels to ff7 and he never appeared in anything trivial like a silly board game type thing or ergeiz or chocobo racing

obviously they're just abusing the popularity of lightning by putting her in dissidia and this new game!

 

[Madame Mayor]

Assuming that everyone working on Versus completely dropped it just to do this.

(I didn't read the articles)

Ya this. SE is a huge company and they don't work on one thing at a time. Heck most larger video game companies have multiple things going on at once all the time.

Programmers who are programming for the 3DS prob aren't the same as ones programming for the PS3. Not saying people can't do both, but I'm sure it's rather difficult if you were constantly switching between the two.

 

[Roger]

yeah cause i mean they never put other characters from recent games into other games like cloud

lord knows he was never mentioned in parasite eve 2 or ff9 or final fantasy tactics or kingdom hearts 1 and 2 or dissidia 1 and 2 or appeared in like 3 sequels and prequels to ff7 and he never appeared in anything trivial like a silly board game type thing or ergeiz or chocobo racing

And even if something preposterous like that DID happen, it's not like anyoe ever complained.

It's not like a great many people starting complaining about Cloud's overexposure, for years.

 

[Alessa Gillespie]

And even if something preposterous like that DID happen, it's not like anyoe ever complained.

It's not like a great many people starting complaining about Cloud's overexposure, for years.

point still stands

two extra games lightning is in=OVEREXPOSURE!!!JUST CALL IT LIGHTNING ENIX GOD

five million extra games cloud is in= ???

 

[Roger]

point still stands

two extra games lightning is in=OVEREXPOSURE!!!JUST CALL IT LIGHTNING ENIX GOD

five million extra games cloud is in= ???

What do you mean "?????" NOBODY IN THIS THREAD WAS SAYING THE OVEREXPOSING CLOUD WAS A GOOD IDEA WHILE OVEREXPOSING LIGHTNING WAS A BAD IDEA!!!

Fact is, Lightning was the first playable character to be announced for XIII-2, one of the first for Duodecim, and now one of the first for this Rhythm game. This within like little over a year. It's also by far the longest period ever that no new main Final Fantasy is announced. And it's not that I mind her starring in other games, but the way she's being publicized, you'd think she's got a Wolverine like popularity to her. She doesn't.

 

[Zee]

Yeah I think the difference is also that we've had to deal with how many years of the Cloud and Sephiroth show in just about anything SE wants to sell whether it's good or bad. Enough time has passed that we can say it has overstayed its welcome.

FFXIII pretty much just came out, and Lightning's taken a center role in all of one game aside from her own, and people can't stop moaning about how she's everywhere (which no, she's not). I'm sure SE will exhaust her too, but that time hasn't come yet.

Fact is, Lightning was the first playable character to be announced for XIII-2, one of the first for Duodecim, and now one of the first for this Rhythm game.

Wow she was the first announced for the sequel to the game she starred in, a sequel in which her role is greatly reduced. Watch out now!

 

[ForceStealer]

Well...13 and 14 may also have been the closest release of two main titles. And Lightning's not even in the screenshot for this rhythm game.

Also, despite what everyone claims, I don't think Lightning got substantially more screentime in Dissidia than any of the other new characters. She did headline most of the prerelease media. But she's absent for a big chunk of the middle of the story.

 

[Kobato]

Also, despite what everyone claims, I don't think Lightning got substantially more screentime in Dissidia than any of the other new characters.

Lighting got a extra chapter while everybody else had one, she was made Cosmos leader over WoL out of thin air, and most of the movie clips focus on her. xD That is more attention than the others. But yeah, Cloud in the past has gotten heaps of attention from Square.

 

[ForceStealer]

She wasn't Cosmos' leader, she was the leader of the six-person strike team. WoL still was the last the line of defense and the last to die. And I said substantially more time, not that she didn't get more time.

 

[Roger]

I'm not saying in the games itself she'd that overwhelmingly prominent, but still. But I have to question SE's apparent train of thought here. "Yeah FFXIV sucked and Versus isn't getting done any sooner it's looking pretty bad BUT as long as our fans never have to fear they'll ever be short of Lightning, we're okay."

 

[Super Mario]

Question gentlemen and ladies, but is this new game sort of like Square's answer to Disney's Fantasia only in gaming???