Anyone remember what happens today? (FFXII related)

[GaijinPunch]

Square Enix starts the bean spillage...

www.ff12.com

[atomicthumbs]

MY MONKEY AND I THANK YOU !!!

[GaijinPunch]

Trying to trans the prologue. I can do about 80% of it off my the top of my head, but there's a few characters I can't remember (but should).

Here's the gist. I'm TOTALLY skipping the first paragraph, as it's a bit 'poetic' and deserve some attention. But, the story goes:

This is teh story of the land called Ivareece (sp?)

The Arcadia Empire, which rules the Varentia Continent, has been fighting many years with the Rozaria Empire, who controls the Ordaria Continent.

The Arcade Empire invades the Kingdom of Darmaska. Very small, yet conveniently placed between the two continents.

Ashe, a royal descendent of the the Kingdom of Darmaska participates in the resistance, carrying out anti-empirical acts.

Her enemies attacks are fierce, but she does not lose heart.
At that time, she meets a young boy named Vaan.
As they met, a change is born in her heart.

And...

Their meeting, will change the story of this world.

Kinda standard stuff. I heard this was related to FFVII somehow. I don't recall these names.

[MarioAllStar2600]

MY MONKEY AND I THANK YOU !!!

HAHAHAHAH. Yea thanks for the info.

[Kid Fenris]

There are no ties to Final Fantasy VII, but "Ivareece" is probably supposed to be "Ivalice," the land where both Final Fantasy Tactics and Tactics Advance took place. Since those two games weren't really related (as far as I know), I'd guess that the Ivalice in Final Fantasy XII is just one of those recurrent Square things, like Cid or black mages.

That's all I've got, but one of the game screens shows a third character, a woman (or man, I guess) with white hair. I assume that she/he is controllable.

Thanks for the translation, GP.

[GaijinPunch]

Kind of a shit translation... might put some more time into it later. The first paragraph talks about the legend, connected by stones or some goofy crap like that.

As far as the names of places go -- who knows. I've only played FFX, and am in the middle of VII. BOth Japanese versions since I've got not English playing PS/2. Even if I knew the names of the places in Japanese, I'd probably still mis-romanize them.

Hell, I would've romanized the names Varn and Arshe if they weren't written in English.

[atomicthumbs]

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or maybe

My GOD! Who ARE you?!?

[VACRMH]

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or maybe

My GOD! Who ARE you?!?

I was thinking a screwed up version of The Cheat

Thanks for the info GaijinPunch

[atomicthumbs]

Who the HELL are you!?! Who ARE you people?!?








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[Starcade]

The new main chick is kinda hot...for a jumple of polygons that is

[Kid Fenris]

My avatar? It's Oglethorpe, the dense alien invader with the hilarious German accent, and a recurring character on Adult Swim's Aqua Teen Hunger Force (now available on DVD).

And in case anyone missed it, you can spot a third FFXII party member in two of the screenshots. Apparently one of those white-haired Viera bunny-women from Tactics Advance, she's engulfed by fire during a battle scene, and standing on the left in another screen. I don't know how to romanize her name, though, since there are several ways to do it: Huran, Furan, Hulan, Fulan, Fran, and so on . . .

[SoulBlazer]

Was'nt this game delayed in Japan? When is it due to be out there? At least then we could them estimate a US release.

[GaijinPunch]

Well, since yesterday was the first information on the game (besides the bullshit poster at the TGS) I wouldn't say the game was delayed.

They say it' schedule for a Summer 2004 release.

[SoulBlazer]

Well, we MIGHT see it for Christmas 2004 then. But early 2005 sounds more in line.

I recall reading a Square article saying it was delayed. Well, we'll see....

[Kid Fenris]

1up.com has an informative preview of the game, and it confirms that the Viera's name is Fran. Yes, the fearsome archer . . . Fran.

http://www.1up.com/article2/0,4364,1388764,00.asp

[GaijinPunch]

Well... there's always some freedom in romanizing names, although I could see the US release matching whatever the Japnaese release says (in the few parts they mention on websites and books and whatnot) even if it sounds wrong/stupid.

I can only imagine how people pronounced Tidus from FFX.

[SoulBlazer]

I always thought it was how it looked -- TI des.

[KJN]

Here is a shaky cam video of the trailer (11 meg): http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~nanko/movies/ff12-2.wmv

[GaijinPunch]

Two actually:
http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~nanko/movies/ff12_1-1.wmv

http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~nanko/movies/ff12-2.wmv

Actually, I think one is audio only. Sorry.

Looks like Fran will be the chick w/ the long white hair and the ass floss... at least as far as I can tell.

[brandver3]

I do have to say, that site is kicking some serious ass.

I'm glad thier getting away from all the techno stuff. I like FF7 and all, but I still think 9, with the purely fantasy story and the "one character, one job" is really the way it shoudl be.

I really hate it when you can make everyone do everything else (i.e. Giving your healer quad-materia. Or moving Lulu through Aurons side of the sphere grid.)

And those screen shots are pretty amazing. Good God, look at the detail on the main characters sword!