Dissidia Final Fantasy - Sony PSP

Thrilling and daring, Dissidia: Final Fantasy offers a new way to experience and enjoy (some of) your favorite Final Fantasy characters! With a well-designed and balanced battle system, an exciting gameplay, and some astonishing difficulty levels (for the times you want it to be difficult), Dissidia is an elite when it comes to portable gaming. Here are my main points: Concept: Bring together characters from Final Fantasy 1-10 (one from 11 and one from 12 are also unlockable), redesign their sprites into full 3D, and bring them to life with voices, character interaction, and fierce battles. For the Final Fantasy enthusiast, this is awesome! One complaint is that there are only 22 characters. When spread across twelve games... it might have been nice to have some more! It's better than Ehrgeiz, though! Battle system: The battle system is the shining star of Dissidia. Completely redone, the system focuses on a sort of tug-of-war system called Bravery. Attack and Defense statistics now refer to your Bravery attack and defense, instead of HP (which is still present). The game is played with two attack buttons: one for Bravery Point (or BP) attacks, and one for Health Point (of HP) attacks. HP attacks deal however much Bravery you have, so if you have 5 BP at the moment, you deal 5 HP. If you have 5000 BP, you deal 5000 HP. When your opponents bravery is completely drained passed zero, they go into Break mode, and you get a bravery bonus. When you hit your opponent with an HP attack, it expends your Bravery -- and you are vulnerable at 0 BP. Luckily, once this happens, you return to your base BP level after a moment (the BP you started with at the beginning of the battle). However, making a successful HP attack, while it won't deal any damage, will return you to Base Bravery, so the game is constantly rewarding you and challenging you to be at risk to strike your opponent with an HP attack. This risk-reward system is prevalent throughout the game, and brings a lot of excitement to a genre that seems to have lost it recently. Story Mode: The story mode is a high point and a low point. It is fun to see your favorite characters rendered in 3D, voiced, and interacting with each other. While it is enjoyable to see the characters, and remember the personalities of the characters, as many other reviewers have commented, the characters are not the ones we left at the end of their respective games. This may have been on purpose, but with a game completely centered on these twenty characters, it may have been nice for the characters to have made some of their developments from their respective games already, so that, for instance, we don't have to rehash Squall's rebel-rouge side for the second time. Versus: As always, versus mode gives you a chance to really know how good of a player you are. Unfortunately, versus mode is only ad-hoc, so you must be in proximity to your opponent to play. However, if you are, this makes for a fun and enjoyable add-on to the game. You also can build your characters in some ways during Versus mode, giving you a reward for enjoying yourself with your friends. As with most games, this is sort of the end-game content, and with a battle system like Dissidia's, it's all fun. It would have been nice for infrastructure play, though. Presentation: Graphically, Dissidia is a powerhouse. Probably the best looking game I have played on the PSP, well above several PS2 games, it brings the characters to life with true-to-vision designs. The battles are outstanding, with great magic effects, good character design, and exciting sequences. Audibly, the game fares great. While the initial offering of background tunes is somewhat poor, in that it simply plays the theme song of your opponent, it does add to some exciting sequences (like when fighting Sephiroth as Cloud for the first time). However, you can expand your set of songs as you continue through the game, and this fleshes out some of the problems. On the SFX end, some are poor, such as some of the losing sounds of the heroes (Onion Knight's is especially annoying). When you're fighting the same opponent over and over again because you're being persistent and refuse to lose against a character that is ten levels stronger than you, these sounds get old. However, during battles, the sound effects are great, and they help bring a sense of immersion to the fights. I would suggest headphones or external speakers, either with nice bass, as the PSP speakers and headphones don't have enough kick for some of the nice bass melodies and SFX (at all). Camera/Playability: The camera is the WORST part about this game, and it isn't even that bad. On several occasions, the camera can get stuck behind pieces of the level, which is annoying. However, in general, the camera doesn't cause any problems, and it pretty much keeps a good lock on your character and your opponent. One problem I have noticed, and it may just be me or my PSP, is that sometimes I will hit a button, and it will not do anything. This seems to be especially prevalent when switching from a BP attack to an HP attack (which is, of course, the most important part!), and since this seems to be a software-oriented environment, I think it may be how the game registers and dolls out BP attacks. However, these are small problems, and in general don't interfere with the overall playability of the game. Overall: The risk-reward systems built into the battle system and story modes drive this game. It is fun to play for five minutes, and fun to play for hours on end. Buy this game -- you won't be disappointed!

First of all, I've gotta state I'm a big FF fan but I'll try to keep the review as free of bias as possible. PROS -tons of fun -awesome graphics -the fact it's a portable game -MOST of my favorite FF characters are present CONS -weak storyline -game difficulty towards the end may get frustrating -easy to learn but hard to master -if you wanna complete the game 100% it may get repetitive Detailed review Alright,so I started looking forward to this game long before it came out but I didn't get around to buy it until late 2010. It was worth the wait and I was able to get it for a great price. It won't dissapoint those looking for the perfect FF fighting game. The fights are very reminiscent of what you see in Advent Children. Plus, you get to tally your favorite characters and villians. There is also plenty of references to all FF games and it manages to keep an FF feel to it. Another great plus in being able to see those characters from old NES, SNES and PS1 era games with updated looks to match today's PSP's graphic capabilities. There is a lot of atention to detail. The big dissadvantages I found were the severe weakness of the storyline. It's actually nowhere near innovative, and rather empty under FF standards. Don't expect to see much character development or to learn much about your characters. in fact at times it even seems like the story is happening in a completely unrelated time and world where all of them just happen to be, with no connection whatsoever to their respective stories and endings according to the games they each come from. Moreover, some characters even display completely different personalities from their originals and whatever they learned in their quests seems to be neglected. Squall, to mention one, acts like he does at the beginning of FF8 where he is still a emotionless loner. So anyway, the game is great, it's worth the $$$ you're guaranteed to have fun and 10x fun is you're an FF fan, but treat it solely as a cool fighting game with cool rpg elements, not as a FF epic

Dissidia is the best Final Fantasy fighting game because it's the only FF dedicated fighting game. It can be played in Story Mode, Arcade or Online. I enjoy all three modes and I recommend it to all Final Fantasy fans and to those who love fighting games but not everything is perfect. GAME MODES It all starts with a movie that that goes through every main character from every Final Fantasy game individually. If you do the Story Mode you can be one of 10 'good' characters and fight your way to the finish. When you play Online you can be a good character or play as the villains if you can afford to buy them for Perk points in the Perk shop. In the Arcade mode where you can earn Perc points and Gil if you fight well you can also be any of the 10 good characters or any of the 10 main villains. Any battle can be replayed but that's not it. Once the battle is over it can be saved and then edited and saved as a movie. This works in any mode: story, arcade or online. GAMEPLAY Is different form other fighting games in that you have to use a combination of melee and ranged attacks. This earns you Bravery points. The more Bravery you have the more life damage you do when you perform a primary attack. You can also collect EXO points on the battlefield to transform yourself into a stronger form and do an extremely powerful attack. You earn Perc points and Gil in the Arcade mode or in the Story mode and you can use them to buy equipment, summoning gems, cool costumes or to summon any of the 10 main villains. THE GOODS AND THE BADS This is a fun and addictive game and I've been playing it every day for a few days already. I found the 'Teen' rating to be appropriate because anyone younger would find Dissidia hard to play. In my view, there are a few problems too. For example, you cannot play as Zack Fair form 'Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core' because he is considered a secondary character. It also takes some practice to get used to the battle system. Online battles can be glitchy sometimes with the game freezing for a second or two but that could be because of the Wi-Fi network. ______________________________________________________ Note: The above is mainly Bradd's review with me responsible for some edits. Bradd is my son.

Final Fantasy is a title that ensures the video game will be good. When one mentions this game is a crossover between Final Fantasies, then it's got to be REALLY good. The story is wonderful: the ten main heroes of the first ten Final Fantasies are summoned to a world to fight for Cosmos, the goddess of harmony. On the flipside, the ten main villians of the first ten Final Fantasies are summoned to fight for Chaos, god of discord. After an epic opening fight sequence between these 10 heroes and 10 villians, the Warrior of Light (of the first Final Fantasy) finds a weakened Cosmos, and the heroes' quest to find the crystals begins. The gameplay is interesting; walk around like an action/adventure game, attack like a fighting game, and everything else is like an RPG. One can change the battle style to be command based (like the actual Final Fantasy games represented), though I haven't tried this, because I'm fine with the default controls. It's hard to explain how the battle system is set up, but, basic attacks take away "Bravery Points" from your foe. The more Bravery Points your character has, the more damage their HP attacks will do. If you get your foe's Bravery below zero, then they will have to recharge the Bravery, and their attacks won't really do anything. However, after you use an HP attack, your character's Bravery goes to zero, and will have recharge. Aside from Story Mode, there is an Arcade Mode, like traditional fighting games, a Museum with a Shop, for prizes and Final Fantasy info, and a Multiplayer Mode, where you can play with others, and get their Friend Cards so you can fight their "Ghost Data." One also gets letters from Moogles everyday, and each letter has a present (and often Moogle humor). This game is a lot of fun, and has tons of gameplay. The character interaction is wonderful, and the story is deep. This is a must-play for any Final Fantsay fan!

i expected it to be much more than it was. silly me. i'm a fan of mortal kombat style fighting games. sidescrollers. if you're not used to 3d fighters and don't like them, this will be awful. i didn't like the combos either. i don't play games to learn them. i expect to learn them as i play. this game failed. very pretty though.

This game was really great. The graphics of the cut scenes were fantastic. The story was also great. I loved the RPG elements of this game. You can have different summons who will help you in different ways. There is a variety of weapons that you can either buy or you can trade items to form. In the story mode your character can have abilities that will affect the setting. I loved how free the battle is. In this game you are not trapped in a small space when you fight. The settings are huge for a battle game so the fighting takes more strategy. You can't just press buttons and expect to win. You have to think and evade the attacks of your opponent. I loved the fact that this one had so many cut scenes each describing the struggles of each of the heroes and the secrets of the story. This encourages you to keep on going to find out more. Btw each character has a finall special move. This was also a great addition. There are great characters. I was really please to play Cloud with decent graphics and so many other heroes from the FF saga. So go ahead and if you want to get a great FF game get this one.

I have always loved the final fantasy games, they allways involve interesting characters and a story, with cool battles etc. Now we can play a game that throws the main charaters all togther into one game. You play a main story as one of 11 good guys trying to save the universe. YOu have a ton of unlockables in the game, you can have an arcade mode, or you can play with friends in ad-hoc mode. The game also has codes you can unlock things you cant normally unlock by normal means, but i dont think we will find out all of them until the guide comes out. Also the art insert is reversible and you can switch it between chaos and cosmos. It also has a code you can use to register the game on the square enix website(which i think unlocks something on the site, but i haven't tired it yet.) Overall this is a great game for the psp and its a nice fighting game with rpg elements, and a TON of stuff to unlock. It is a definite buy.

I have not played most of the games represented by the characters of this one, but Dissidia is a fun, and rather challenging, "fighting" game in its own right. Final Fantasy (-ies?) VII and IX are among my all-time favorite games, and I have some very fond memories associated with X and the remake of III; I wish I had played a few of the others as a child, but regardless, the characters in Dissidia are just as endearing here as they were in their original games. Great music, original, reworked, and remixed. Worth a try at the very least!

El juego es totalmente nuevo y sellado, a diferencia de la foto que tiene el sello "Greatest Hits" el mío llegó con la portada original sin ese sello, no se si fui yo quien corrió con suerte. Esto para mi incrementó mucho el valor que pagué por el juego. De igual forma, la portada es reversible, teniendo en uno de sus lados, el grupo de los héroes y en el otro el de los villanos. Recomendado para coleccionistas.

This is every final fantasy fanboy's (and fangirl's) biggest fantasy! A game with all the main characters and villains from every final fantasy up to final fantasy X! This game is a fighter with rpg elements. Your fighter levels the more you use them, thus gaining more power for the end game. Every character has a storyline that tells the main story from their point of view. You have to play all of the characters to get a sense of what's really happening with the bigger picture. Get this game for the gamer in your life that likes final fantasy!

box with reversible lid, original and new product, works perfectly, ideal for collectors!

mint! love the game and runs smoothly, arrived 2 days before estimate

No problem, just no book with the game